Laurel Ryan
- Faculty
- Associate Professor of English
- Co-director of Graduate Studies
- 337-482-5512
- laurel.ryan@louisiana.edu
- Griffin Hall, Room 229
Biography
Laurel Ryan’s research interests include transatlantic and transnational literary relationships, with a particular focus on nineteenth-century Canadian medievalism. She is also interested in the development of ideas of race in the nineteenth century. Her work has been published in journals including Mosaic: an Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, Studies in Canadian Literature, South Asian Review, Canadian Literature, and others.
Her current projects include the monograph Whiteout: Race and Medievalism in Early Canadian Literature, which examines how Canadian authors of the long nineteenth century participated in transnational discourses of Whiteness as an emergent racial category by inventing a European medieval past for Canada. She is also currently co-editing a book on Medievalism and Slavic Popular Culture.
Education
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2014
M.A., University of Western Ontario, 2007
Student Research/Collaboration
- Nineteenth-century transatlantic and transnational literatures
- Canadian literature
- World literatures in English
- Digital Humanities