English Department Faculty
Lauren Wilwerding
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Department
Biography
Lauren Wilwerding specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and the novel. Other interests include contemporary literature, pleasure reading, and pedagogy.
Lauren received her Ph.D. at Boston College and taught in the first-year writing program at Tufts University, where she was a Center for the Enhancement for Learning and Teaching Faculty Fellow (2021) and Scholar for Authentic and Engaged Learning (2023).  Lauren teaches First-year Writing Seminar, Literature Core, and âAll the Single Ladies: Women at the Edge of Culture and History.â
Publications
- âThe Pleasure Reading Project: A Case Study in Transformational Teaching.â (in progress)
- âFrom Nineteenth-Century Novels to Screentime Debates: Using Northanger Abbey to Historicize Pleasure Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom.â (under review)
- âThe Year of the Vocational Plot: Proxy Close Reading in the Periodical Archives.â The Time of Close Reading: Victorian Fictionâs Presents. Edited by Debra Gettleman, Audrey Jaffe, and Mary Ann OâFarrell. (under review, Oxford University Press, Approaches to the Novel).
- âThe Old Maid of 1865: Vocational Plots and the Case of Trollopeâs Miss Mackenzie.â Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 16.3 (Fall 2020).
- âRedefining Urban Philanthropy: Charity and Home in Our Mutual Friend.â Dickens Studies Annual 49.1 (March 2018): 86-106.
- âContingency and Vocation in Cranford.â Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature 131 (Summer 2017): 82-98.
- âAmatory Gifts in Sense and Sensibility.â Persuasions 37 (2015): 208-217.