Dr. Lanya M. Lamouria

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Education

• PhD, English Literature, 2005, Washington University 
• BA, English Literature, 1992, University of California, Berkeley

Teaching

• ENG 748: Seminar in English Literature after 1798
• ENG 580/682: Gender Issues in Language and Literature
• ENG 568/669: World Literature
• ENG 548/648: Major British Authors
• ENG 547/647: Modern British Literature
• ENG 546/646: Victorian Literature
• UHC 410: Senior Honors Seminar - Victorian Sexualities Past/Present
• ENG 362: Non-European World Literature
• ENG 341: Survey of English Literature II
• ENG 282: Literature by Women
• ENG 235: Critical Approaches to Literature

Professional experience

Editing

• Editor, Nineteenth Century Studies (Penn State University Press)

Selected publications

• Lamouria, Lanya. Book review of Carolyn Vellenga Berman's Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People (Oxford UP, 2022). Journal of British Studies (2024).
• Lamouria, Lanya. “The Undergraduate Literature Conference and Career Readiness.” Modern Language Association’s ADE Bulletin, special issue on the English major and career development (2024).
• Lamouria, Lanya. “Charles Dickens, Charles Babbage, Richard Babley: Material Memory in David Copperfield.” Dickens Quarterly, special issue on David Copperfield (2023).
• Lamouria, Lanya. “Democracy, Terror, and Utopia in Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities.” Victorian Literature and Culture (2022).
• Lamouria, Lanya. “Villette, Female Political Agency, and the French Revolution of 1848.” Journal of Victorian Culture (2021).

Research and professional interests

• Victorian literature
• Nineteenth-century transnational politics
• Slavery and abolition

Awards and honors

• Curtis P. Lawrence Master Teacher, Honors College, Missouri State University, 2017 and 2024