LAURA ENGEL
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

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

Fall 2008 Office Hours:
MW 2:15-4:00

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

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Acresses and the Politics of Image Making (work in progress).

“The Muff Affair: Fashioning Celebrity in the Portraits of Late Eighteenth-Century Actresses”
in Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (Forthcoming, September 2009).

Editor, The Public’s Open to Us All: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England. (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2009).

"'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, 2008.

“Notorious Celebrity: Mary Wells, Madness and Theatricality” in Eighteenth-Century Women, Volume V, 2008 181-205. Reprint in The English Malady: Enabling and Disabling Fictions, Glen Colburn ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) 305-325.

Introduction and notes for Charlotte Bronte's Villette, ( New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005).

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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