Professor, Department of English
A specialist in early US literatures and cultures, her most recent book is Selected Writings of Ella Higginson: Inventing Pacific Northwest Literature. She is also the author of the books Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century US Women's Writing and Hawthorne’s Literature for Children. Her essays have appeared in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, ESQ, Legacy, LEAR: Literature in the Early Republic, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and other journals and collections. She is currently at work on the Ella Higginson Recovery Project.
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About Laura Laffrado
A specialist in early US literatures and cultures, her most recent book is Selected Writings of Ella Higginson: Inventing Pacific Northwest Literature. She is also the author of the books Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century US Women's Writing and Hawthorne’s Literature for Children. Her essays have appeared in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, ESQ, Legacy, LEAR: Literature in the Early Republic, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and other journals and collections. She is currently at work on the Ella Higginson Recovery Project.
| Present | Faculty Member, Western Washington University ‐ Western Expert | |
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| Present | Professor, Western Washington University ‐ Department of English | |
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| Affiliated Faculty, Western Washington University ‐ Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program | ||
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| 1987 | Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo ‐ Department of English | |
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| 1984 | M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo ‐ Department of English | |
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| 1982 | M.F.A., University of Montana ‐ Department of English | |
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| 1980 | A.B., Vassar College ‐ Department of English | |
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Contact Information
English Department
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360-650-2886
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