English Department Faculty
Lauren Wilwerding
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Department
Biography
Lauren Wilwerding specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and the novel. Other interests include contemporary literature, pleasure reading, and pedagogy.
Lauren received her Ph.D. at Boston College and taught in the first-year writing program at Tufts University, where she was a Center for the Enhancement for Learning and Teaching Faculty Fellow (2021) and Scholar for Authentic and Engaged Learning (2023).聽聽Lauren teaches First-year Writing Seminar, Literature Core, and 鈥淎ll the Single Ladies: Women at the Edge of Culture and History.鈥�
Publications
- 鈥淭he Pleasure Reading Project: A Case Study in Transformational Teaching.鈥� (in progress)
- 鈥淔rom Nineteenth-Century Novels to Screentime Debates: Using Northanger Abbey to Historicize Pleasure Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom.鈥� (under review)
- 鈥淭he Year of the Vocational Plot: Proxy Close Reading in the Periodical Archives.鈥� The Time of Close Reading: Victorian Fiction鈥檚 Presents. Edited by Debra Gettleman, Audrey Jaffe, and Mary Ann O鈥橣arrell. (under review, Oxford University Press, Approaches to the Novel).
- 鈥淭he Old Maid of 1865: Vocational Plots and the Case of Trollope鈥檚 Miss Mackenzie.鈥� Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 16.3 (Fall 2020).
- 鈥淩edefining Urban Philanthropy: Charity and Home in Our Mutual Friend.鈥� Dickens Studies Annual 49.1 (March 2018): 86-106.
- 鈥淐ontingency and Vocation in Cranford.鈥� Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature 131 (Summer 2017): 82-98.
- 鈥淎matory Gifts in Sense and Sensibility.鈥� Persuasions 37 (2015): 208-217.