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Lauren G. Rich English and Journalism Program Director

Lauren G. Rich, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Humanities; Professor of English; Program Director, English and Journalism

  • B.A., Baylor University; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

  • 800-544-7223 ext. 6151

Areas of Expertise
  • British Literature
  • Irish Studies
  • Literary Theory
  • Gender Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Food Studies
  • Young Adult Literature
Research
  • British and Irish modernism and food studies
    • Dissertation title: “Food for Thought: Eating, Reading, and Being Modern in British and Irish Literature, 1900s-1950s”
Professional Organizations and Affiliations
  • Modern Languages Association
  • American Conference of Irish Studies
  • Modernist Studies Association
  • The Space Between Society
Publications
  • “‘A Little Startling’: Subversive Consumption in the Late Novels of Molly Keane” in The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.
  • “A Woolf at the Table: Virginia Woolf and the Domestic Dinner Party” in Gastro-Modernism: Food, Literature, Culture, Clemson University Press, 2019.
  • “A Table for One: Hunger and Unhomeliness in Joyce’s Public Eateries” in Joyce Studies Annual, Fordham University Press, 2010.
Hobbies
  • Reading
  • Collecting rare books
  • Travel