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). Lauren teaches First-year Writing Seminar, Literature Core, and “All the Single Ladies: Women at the Edge of Culture and History.”
Publications
- “The Pleasure Reading Project: A Case Study in Transformational Teaching.” (in progress)
- “From Nineteenth-Century Novels to Screentime Debates: Using Northanger Abbey to Historicize Pleasure Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom.” (under review)
- “The Year of the Vocational Plot: Proxy Close Reading in the Periodical Archives.” The Time of Close Reading: Victorian Fiction’s Presents. Edited by Debra Gettleman, Audrey Jaffe, and Mary Ann O’Farrell. (under review, Oxford University Press, Approaches to the Novel).
- “The Old Maid of 1865: Vocational Plots and the Case of Trollope’s Miss Mackenzie.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 16.3 (Fall 2020).
- “Redefining Urban Philanthropy: Charity and Home in Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Studies Annual 49.1 (March 2018): 86-106.
- “Contingency and Vocation in Cranford.” Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature 131 (Summer 2017): 82-98.
- “Amatory Gifts in Sense and Sensibility.” Persuasions 37 (2015): 208-217.