Laura Walls
Laura Dassow Walls (born Laura Dassow in Ketchikan, Alaska) is an American professor of English literature and currently the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Areas of research
Walls has researched the intersections of literature and science in the works of
Books authored
- Walls, Laura Dassow (July 7, 2017). Henry David Thoreau: A Life. ISBN 978-0-226-34469-0.
- Walls, Laura Dassow (September 30, 2009). The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America. ISBN 978-0-226-87182-0.
- Walls, Laura Dassow (March 6, 2003). Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth. ISBN 978-0-8014-4044-1.
- Walls, Laura Dassow (November 15, 1995). Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science. ISBN 978-0-299-14744-0.
Books edited
- Myerson, Joel; Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert; Walls, Laura Dassow (April 16, 2010). The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism. ISBN 978-0-19-533103-5.
- Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert; Walls, Laura Dassow (December 31, 2006). More Day to Dawn: Thoreau's 'Walden' for the Twenty-first Century (Spirit of Thoreau). ISBN 978-1-55849-576-0.
- Thoreau, Henry David; Walls, Laura Dassow; Huber, J. Parker (May 31, 1999). Material Faith: Thoreau on Science. ISBN 978-0-395-94800-2.
Awards and degrees
Walls received the University of South Carolina’s Russell Research Award in spring 2010.
She studied at University of Washington earning a B.A. for English/Creative Writing in 1976 and an M.A. for English in 1978. She earned a Ph.D. from Indiana University in American Literature in 1992. Before going to University of South Carolina, she taught at Indiana University and Lafayette College.[1]
Professor Walls joined the Notre Dame faculty in fall 2011 as the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English. She succeeds Gerald Bruns, who retired from Notre Dame in 2008 and inaugurated the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English chair.[2]
References
- ^ a b c "Laura Dassow Walls: 2010 - US & Canada Competition: Creative Arts - Biography". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
- ^ a b Cohorst, Kate (March 31, 2011). "Laura Dassow Walls Joins Department of English". University of Notre Dame: The College of Arts and Letters. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
- ^ "Recipients of the Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences". University of South Carolina. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
- ^ "Guggenheim Fellow 2010". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
- ^ a b "A New 'Age of Humboldt' Dawning with Unprecedented Win of Prizes by University of South Carolina Professor" (Press release). University of South Carolina. December 17, 2010. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
- ^ Basile, Joanna (August 29, 2012). "English Professor Laura Dassow Walls Studies Emerson and Science". University of Notre Dame - College of Arts and Letters. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
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