LAURA ENGEL
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Office: College Hall 632A
Telephone: 412-396-1425
Email: engell784@duq.edu

EDUCATION
B.A., Bryn Mawr College
M.A., Columbia University
M.Phil., Columbia University
Ph.D., Columbia University

COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Drama: Family Dramas
Introduction to Drama: Love and Madness
18th Century Rebels
Restoration Women
Masquerade and Gender in the 18th Century
Playwriting

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

• Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Acresses and the Politics of Image Making (work in progress).
• "'The Personating of Queens': Sarah Siddons, Lady Macbeth and the Creation of Female Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century." Macbeth: New Critical Essays, Nicholas Moschovakis, ed. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2006.
• "Mary Wells, Madness and Theatricality." Eighteenth-Century Women, forthcoming, 2005.
• Introduction and notes for Charlotte Bronte's Villette, ( New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, Fall 2004).
• Edition of Charlotte Clarke's A Narrative of the Life of Charlotte Charke (1755). (Work in progress.)
• Introduction and notes for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, ( New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003).
• Review: "'Vanished Women': Kate Braverman's The Incantation of Frida K." American Book Review: Innovative Women Fiction Writers, Vol. 23, Number 5, July/August 2002.
• "Edna O'Brien." British Writers Supplement V, George Stade and Sarah Goldstien, eds. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999 (pp. 333-346).
• "A.S. Byatt." British Writers Supplement IV: The Work, George Stade and Carol Howard, eds., New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997 (pp. 139-156).

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