Laura Fernandes Laffrado, PhD
she/her, Professor
Office
Location
HU 379
Hours
Office hours Monday and Wednesday 7:30-8:30 a.m. and by appointment. All office hours held via Zoom.
About
Pronunciation: LOR-uh Fur-NAN-dez Luh-FRAY-doh
Dr. Laura Fernandes Laffrado is an award-winning Professor of English. She has published widely on American literature in journals such as a/b: Auto/Biography Studies; ESQ; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; Literature in the Early Republic; Nathaniel Hawthorne Review; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture; and many other journals and collections. Among her books are Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century US Women’s Writing and Selected Writings of Ella Higginson: Inventing Pacific Northwest Literature, which received the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Edition Award. Her biography of Ella Rhoads Higginson is forthcoming in spring 2027.
Research Interests
- Early American Literatures
- 19th Century American Literatures
- Autobiography
- Biography