English

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1998
B.A., Columbia University, 1989

INTERESTS: 20th-century British and European literature and culture; gender studies, comparative literature

Laura Frost's area of specialty is 20th-century British and comparative literature, with an emphasis on modernism. Other areas of interest include the history of sexuality, gender studies, feminism, visual culture, and the contemporary novel. Her publications include articles on James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf. Her first book is Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism, published by Cornell University Press, 2001, which won the Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarly work by a junior faculty member in the Humanities at Yale. In May of 2004 she received the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities at Yale. She is currently at work on a project on narrative and 9/11, and a book on modernism and pleasure.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--“Still Life:  9/11’s Falling Bodies” forthcoming in Literature After 9/11, ed. Ann Keniston and Jeanne Fallansbee Quinn  (Routledge).

--“Photography/Pornography/Torture:  The Politics of Seeing Abu Ghraib” in One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers, ed. Tara McKelvey (Seal Press, 2007).  

--“Huxley’s Feelies:  The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World.”  Twentieth-Century Literature 52.4 (Winter 2006).

--“The Romance of Cliché:  E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction” in Bad Modernisms, Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz, eds.  (Duke University Press, 2006).

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: The European Literary Tradition, James Joyce, Narrative and 9/11