faculty
Laurel Hankins, PhD she/her
Associate Professor
English & Communication
Contact
508-999-9277
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Liberal Arts 337
Education
Tufts University | PhD |
Tufts University | MA |
Bryn Mawr College | BA |
Teaching
- American Literature to 1865
- Literary Theory
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
A survey of literature written by people living in what is now the United States from the Atlantic world of the seventeenth century through the Civil War. Readings will include works by indigenous people, settler-colonists, enslaved and self-emancipated people, founding fathers, and burgeoning feminists written across multiple genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction.
Introduction to key primary documents in the history of literary theory, from Plato and Aristotle through contemporary critical theory.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
A survey of literature written by people living in what is now the United States from the Atlantic world of the seventeenth century through the Civil War. Readings will include works by indigenous people, settler-colonists, enslaved and self-emancipated people, founding fathers, and burgeoning feminists written across multiple genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction.
Research
Research activities
- The Art of Retreat: Domestic Romanticisms in the Early United States, monograph under contract with Bucknell University Press
- former President, Charles Brockden Brown Society advisory board (2020-21)
Research
Research interests
- U.S. Literature to 1865
- Early U.S. and transatlantic romanticism
- Sentimental and domestic fiction, especially the novel
Select publications
- Laurel V. Hankins (2025).
The Art of Retreat: Domestic Romanticisms in the Early United States - Laurel V. Hankins (2024).
The Early National Picturesque
The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art - Laurel V. Hankins (2012).
What the Folk Printed: Verse Culture and the Black Press in 1865 New Orleans
African American Review, 45.4, 527-540. - Laurel V. Hankins (2014).
The Voice of Nature: Hope Leslie and Early American Romanticism
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 31.2, 160-182. - Laurel V. Hankins (2014).
The Art of Retreat: Salmagundi's Elbow-Chair Domesticity
Nineteenth-Century Literature, 71.4, 431-456.
Additional links
- Review essay, American Literary History Review Series, 13
- Teaching Reflection, Just Teach One, Common-Place
- Teaching Reflection, Just Teach One, Common-Place
- Teaching in Crisis with Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
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