Department: English

Office: Buttrick 4-26
Email: lauren.n.wood@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• M.A. English, Vanderbilt University, 2005
• B.A. English with Minors in Classics and Creative Writing, Summa Cum Laude, University of Alabama, 2004

Research Area

• Victorian Literature & Culture
• The British Novel
• Gender Studies
• Narrative Theory

Current Research

• Dissertation: "'That Inevitable Woman': Sympathy and the Female Companion in Victorian Fiction"

Current Courses

• Spring 2008, English 120W: Interdisciplinary Writing on Writing
• Fall 2007, English 102W: Metamorphosis and the Fantastic

Current Positions

• Graduate Instructor, Dept. of English, Vanderbilt University
• Research Assistant, Mark Schoenfield

Previous Positions

• Co-Chair, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Group
• TA, Vanderbilt Summer Academy for Talented Youth
• Research Assistant, Jonathan Lamb
• Graduate Student Council, English Dept. Representative

Professional Societies

• Society for the Study of Narrative
• Modern Language Association
• 18th-and- 19th Century British Women Writers Association
• Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Honors

• Delegate to the 2006 Dickens Project, UC Santa Cruz
• Participation in the 2006 Mellon Seminar, Vanderbilt
• Top Graduating Senior in English, University of Alabama
• Top Scholarly Essay Award, University of Alabama