Dr. Lanya M. Lamouria


Department

English
Role: Faculty
Campus: Springfield

Postal mail

Missouri State University
English
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65810

Details

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

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