Laurie Leach PH.D.
College of Liberal Arts - Department of English and Applied Linguistics
LAURIE LEACH PH.D.
College of Liberal Arts - Department of English and Applied Linguistics
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English, Louisiana State University, 1990
M.A., English, Louisiana State University, 1987
B.A., English, University of Virginia, 1986
COURSES FREQUENTLY TAUGHT:
WRI 1150 Literature and Argument
WRI 1200 Research, Argument and Writing
AMST 2000 Topics in American Studies
ENG 3102 Nineteenth-Century British Literature
ENG 3122 Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ENG 3202 Literature of Slavery
ENG 3224 Ethnic Literature
ENG 4120 Seminar in Modernism
HUM 3900 Research and Writing in the Humanities
RECENT Conference Presentations:
“The Informative Essay as a Transition to Academic Writing.” First Year Writing in a Time of Transition. 2022 First-Year Writing Symposium, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, March 5, 2022.
"'You and I Were Never Really Married': Role-Playing and Intimacy in FX's The Americans." Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association 2018, Bellingham, WA, November 10, 2018.
“Portraying Nat Turner: Parker versus Styron.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association 2017, Honolulu, HI, Oct. 10-12, 2017
“‘Good Slaveholders’ and Questionable Allies: The Moral Ambiguity of the White Characters in Roots.” Roots at 40: Reflections and Remembrances. Goodwin College, East Hartford, CT, October 6, 2017.
“Unsettling Questions: Teaching Kindred in a Course on the Literature of Slavery.” Octavia E. Butler Conference 2016: Celebrating Letters, Life and Legacy. Octavia E. Butler Society, Atlanta, GA Feb. 26-28, 2016.
“The Power of the Spoken Word: Oratory and Social Action.” Community College Humanities Association, Pacific Western Division Conference, Seattle, WA, October 16-18, 2014.
“Heroes and Villains in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt.” 14th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness. Inter-disciplinary.net. Lisbon, Portugal, March 10-12, 2013
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOK
Langston Hughes: A Biography. Greenwood Press, 2004.
ESSAYS IN COLLECTIONS
"Heroes and Villains in John Patrick Shanley's Doubt." Concerning Evil. Edited by Grace Halden and Gabriela Madlo. London: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013. Web. ISBN 978-1-84888-232-4.
“A Fuller Statement of the Case: Valerie Martin’s Mary Reilly and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Beyond Adaptation: Essays on Radical Transformations of Original Works. Edited by Phyllis Frus and Christy Williams. MacFarland, 2010.
“Margie Polite, The Riot Starter: Harlem, 1943.” Part of a collection, Leaping into the Fire: Representations of Women in United States Race Riots, edited by Julie Cary Nerad. Studies in the Literary Imagination (40.2) 2007: 25-48.
“A Nice Girl Ought to Know!”: Henry James’s Daisy Miller.” Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender. Edited by Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber, Greenwood Press, 2003. 85-87.
“The Bell Jar: Trapped by the Feminine Mystique.” Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender. Edited by Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber, Greenwood Press, 2003. 35-37.
“Conflict over Privacy in Indo-American Short Fiction.” Ethnicity and the American Short Story. Edited by Julie Brown. Garland Press, 1997. 197-211.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
"Roots and the Trope of the Good Slaveholder." Slavery and Abolition 40.2 (2019): 361-79.
“Lying, Writing and Confrontation: Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 15 (2004): 1-24.
"A Comment on `Teachers and Philosophers.'" College English (February 1995): 84-85.
“Explorations of a ‘Sorry Genre’: Andrew Field's Biographies of Vladimir Nabokov.” Biography 15 (1992): 178-91.
“‘The Difficult Business of Intimacy’: Friendship and Writing in Virginia Woolf's The Waves.” South Central Review 7.2 (1990): 53-66.
"Lorenzo and the Noblest Roman: The Noble Assassins of Lorenzaccio and Julius Caesar." Romance Notes 28 (1988): 241-46.
FAVORITE LITERARY QUOTATIONS:
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
Jane Austen
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
