Dr. Laura Linker
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, May 2008
Primary Ph.D. field: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century
British Literature
Secondary Fields: Nineteenth-Century British literature;
Special Topic, “Libertinism and Wit”
M. A. in English, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, 2004
B. A. with Honors in English, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002
Dissertation
“The Female Libertine from Dryden to Defoe”
MA Thesis
“Writing Through a Dialectic of Pain and Desire: The
Structure of Confinement and Release in Pope’s Eloisa to
Abelard”
“Re-Imagining the Feminine in Keats’s The Eve of St. Agnes”
Honors Thesis
“Perceptions of the Female as a Paradoxical Image of Time
and Eternity in the Poetry and Plays of T. S. Eliot”
Teaching
Experience
Instructor, Duke University, Spring 2007-present
(Writing 20: “Staging Identity: Power Performance, and the
Libertine”
Writing 20: “The World of Jane Austen”)
Lecturer, North Carolina State University, Fall 2006-present
(Honors 202, “ ’A Dish of Mixed Fruit’: The Art of Satire”;
Eng 262, “English Literature from 1660 to the Present,” fall
2009-present; Eng 261, “English Literature from Beowulf to
Milton, Summer 2008; English 251, “Major British Authors,”
Fall 2007-present; English 100, Fall 2006; English 101, Fall
2006-Spring 2007)
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Teaching Intern, UNC-Greensboro, ENG 349, “The English
Novel from Defoe to Hardy,” under the direction of Dr.
James Evans, Spring 2006
Teaching Assistant, UNC-Greensboro, Fall 2004-Spring 2006
(English 101, Fall 2004-2005; English 102, Spring 2006)
Writing Center Consultant in UNC-Greensboro Writing
Center, Fall 2004 and Summer 2005 (experience included
developing grammatical handouts for the center’s website)
Publications
Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility,
1670-1730, forthcoming from Ashgate, 2011.
“Catherine Trotter’s Humane Libertines.” Studies in English
Literature, 1500-1900 50.3 (Summer 2010).
“ ‘Decencies of Behavior’: Dryden’s Libertines in Marriage Ala-Mode.” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research
24.1 (Summer 2009): 47-60.
“Mother and Daughter: Augusta Webster and the Maternal
Production of Art.” Papers on Language and Literature 44.1
(2008): 52-66.
“Goblins of Desire: Carew’s Libertine Women in ‘A
Rapture.’”CEA Critic 69.3 (2007): 1-12.
“ ’Th’unhappy Poet’s Breast’: Resisting Violation in Anne
Finch’s “To the Nightingale.” English Studies 88.2 (2007): 16676.
“ ‘Breathings of the Heart’: Reading Sensibility in Pope’s
Eloisa to Abelard.” New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 3
(2006): 32-41.
“Imagining Adam’s Dream: Keats’s Chamber of Maiden
Thought in The Eve of St. Agnes.” Miscelánea: A Journal of
English and American Studies 34 (2006): 11-29.
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“Suffering the Muse: Charlotte Smith’s Interior Other.”
Autopoetica: Representations of the Creative Process in
Nineteenth-Century British and American Fiction. Ed. Darby
Lewes. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2006. 93-99.
“Senecan Stoicism and Shakespeare’s Richard III.”
Interactions: Aegean Journal of English and American
Studies 14 (2005): 27-48.
Conferences
Folger Institute Program Participation in the Faculty
Weekend Seminar, “Contact and Exchange: China and the
West,” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, September 26,
2009.
Folger Institute Program Participation in the Faculty
Weekend Seminar, “The Mental World of Restoration
England,” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, April 13-14,
2007.
“Roxana’s Libertine Materialism.” Presented at the
Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies in Atlanta, Georgia, at the
Sheraton Colony Square, March 22-25, 2007.
“Satirizing Celia: Carew’s Libertine Women in ‘A Rapture’.“
Presented at the Seventh Annual North Carolina
Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, “True or
False?” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
February 3-4, 2006.
“ ‘Th’unhappy Poet’s Breast’: Resisting Violation in Anne
Finch’s “To the Nightingale.” Presented at the Fifteenth
Annual Conference of the Aphra Behn Society for Woman
and the Arts, 1600-1830, in Daytona Beach, Florida, at the El
Caribe Resort, October 28-30, 2005.
Panel Chair: “Canonical Fringes: From Nonsense to Verse
Drama.” Victorians Institute 2005 Annual Meeting: "The
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Nine Lives of Victorian Poetry." University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, April 1-2, 2005.
“Writing Through a Dialectic of Pain and Desire: The
Structure of Confinement and Release in Pope’s Eloisa to
Abelard.” Presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies in Myrtle Beach, SC, March 3-5, 2005.
“ ‘Thanne Have I gete of yow maistrie’: Power and the
Subversive Body in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath.” Presented at
the 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference in Medieval
Studies: “East/South/West/North: Encounters in the
Medieval World,” Brown University, October 2, 2004.
“Reinventing Stoicism: The Influence of Seneca’s Tragic
Conventions and Stoic Philosophy in Shakespeare’s Richard
III.” Presented at the 2004 Copia Renaissance Graduate
Student Conference, Princeton University, April 17, 2004.
“Hélène Cixous and the Rhetoric of Feminine Desire:
Writing Through the Medusa.” Presented at the “Rhetoric
And Culture” 2004 Southern Humanities Conference,
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga,
Tennessee, February 5-8, 2004.
Grants
Fellowship, American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies and the Folger Institute for study and participation
in the Faculty Weekend Seminar, “Contact and Exchange:
China and the West,” September 2009.
Folger Grant-In-Aid awarded for study and participation in
the Faculty Weekend Seminar, “The Mental World of
Restoration England,” April 2007
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Academic Honors Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship, 2007
2007 Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Percy G. Adams Article Prize Nominee for best
published article of 2006, “ ‘Breathings of the Heart’:
Reading Sensibility in Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard”
2005 Winner of the Best Graduate Student Essay, “Writing
Through a Dialectic of Pain and Desire: The Structure of
Confinement and Release in Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard,”
presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Southeastern
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Myrtle
Beach, SC, March 3-5, 2005.
Lane Doctoral Fellow, UNCG Department of English, 20042005
Graduate Outstanding Masters Thesis Award for 2004,
Department of English, UNCG
Graduate Assistantship, the Graduate School of UNCG, Fall
2003-Summer 2004
Phi Beta Kappa, UNC-Chapel Hill
Graduation with Honors, UNC-Chapel Hill
National Association of Collegiate Scholars
Golden Key National Honor Society
Mary Hadley Leath Scholar, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1998-2002
Governor’s School of North Carolina, Summer 1997
Memberships
Modern Language Association
College English Association
Registered Reader in the Folger Shakespeare Library
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies
Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830
References
Dr. Denise Comer
Thompson Writing Program
Duke University
Box 90025
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 660-4368
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Dr. James Evans
Department of English, UNCG
HHRA 3107
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
(336) 334-3282
Dr. Tony Harrison, Head
Department of English, NCSU
Tompkins Hall 221 A, Box 8105
Raleigh, NC 27695
919-515-4101