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
Survey of African American Literature from colonial times to the turn of the twentieth century. Course surveys genres of poetry, slave narrative, fiction, essay, and drama with attention to the social, political, and cultural histories of African Americans from slavery to freedom to Reconstruction. This course may also include sections on oral narratives (oral slave narratives, speeches, folktales, and sermons) and music (such as sorrow songs and spirituals).
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.
Survey of African American Literature from colonial times to the turn of the twentieth century. Course surveys genres of poetry, slave narrative, fiction, essay, and drama with attention to the social, political, and cultural histories of African Americans from slavery to freedom to Reconstruction. This course may also include sections on oral narratives (oral slave narratives, speeches, folktales, and sermons) and music (such as sorrow songs and spirituals).
Introduction to key primary documents in the history of literary theory, from Plato and Aristotle through contemporary critical theory.
Advanced study in a topic concerning literary texts in any genre, literary history, or literary culture. Areas of focus may include genre studies, literary theory of criticism or other aspect(s) of the creation, production, reception or consumption of literature. Past topics have included: The American Immigrant Experience, Literary Nonfiction, Reading and Writing Nature and Utopian Dreams, among others.
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.
Survey of African American Literature from colonial times to the turn of the twentieth century. Course surveys genres of poetry, slave narrative, fiction, essay, and drama with attention to the social, political, and cultural histories of African Americans from slavery to freedom to Reconstruction. This course may also include sections on oral narratives (oral slave narratives, speeches, folktales, and sermons) and music (such as sorrow songs and spirituals).
Register for this course.
Research
Research activities
- 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 (2024).
The Early National Picturesque
The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art - Laurel V. Hankins (2023).
Teaching in Crisis with Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life - 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.
Featured on
- Sep 11, 2023 Kamryn Kobel '24: Prepared for anything
External links
- Review essay, American Literary History Review Series, 13
- Teaching Reflection, Just Teach One, Common-Place
- Teaching Reflection, Just Teach One, Common-Place