Laura graduated from the College of Saint Benedict with a BA in English and Philosophy. She then attended Oxford University and earned a BA and MA (Hon.) in English Language and Literature. During the following year, she conducted research at the University of the Western Cape, RSA and earned an MS (Oxon.) in Comparative Education. She received her PhD in Eighteenth-Century British and American Literature from Stanford University in 2002.
Teaching interests:
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, with particular concentration in the novel, drama, non-fictional prose, and visual culture; satire; religious writers, conversion narratives and enthusiasm. Eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century American literature; Transatlantic studies; South African literature; historiography, media studies; and all forms of deception.
Contact:
email:
lmcgrane@haverford.edu
phone: (610) 896-1155