Featured English Alumni

Laura L. Behling, Ph.D. in English

Current Position

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs & Interdisciplinary Programs at Butler University

Education

Ph.D. in English and American Literature, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA

M.A. in English, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA

M.S. in Journalism: Program for Reporting on Science and Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA

B.A. in English, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI

Selected Scholarship

Books

Edited and Introduction. Reading, Writing, and Research: Undergraduate Students as Scholars in Literary Studies. CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research), 2010.

Gross Anatomies: Fictions of the Physical in American Literature. Susquehanna University Press/Associated University Presses, 2008.

Edited and "Introduction." Hospital Transports: A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1862. The State University of New York Press, 2005. Paperback, 2006.

The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935. The University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Articles

“What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Faculty-Student Collaborative Research in Literary and Cultural Studies” Reading, Writing, and Research: Undergraduate Students as Scholars in Literary Studies. Ed. Laura L. Behling. CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research), 2010.

“’to poke and pry with a purpose’.” Reading, Writing, and Research: Undergraduate Students as Scholars in Literary Studies. Ed. Laura L. Behling. CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research), 2010.

"Contemporary U.S. Immigration Narratives: Politics in Prose.” Proceedings of the Annual American Studies Institute International Conference, Seoul National University, Korea. Forthcoming.

“Politics and the Pandemic: HIV/AIDS, Africa, and the Discourse of Disability.” Review of Disability Studies, Special Issue on Parting the Waters: Disability and Deliverance in the Wake of Disaster. 2.3 (2006): 97-107.

“The Necessity of Disability in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People’ and ‘The Lame Shall Enter First.’” Flannery O’Connor Review, 4 (Spring 2006): 88-98.

“The Laboratory: A Model for Teaching the Elements of Literary Studies.” Radical Pedagogy 8.1 (Summer 2006): http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue8_1/behling.html.

"Replacing the Patient: The Fiction of Prosthetics in Medical Practice." Journal of Medical Humanities. vol. 26, no. 1 (March 2005): 53-66.