Lara Kees

Lara Kees is an Instructor in the English Department at Louisiana State University (LSU), affiliated with the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century British literature, with specializations in poetry, poetics, and cultural analysis.

Education:

• Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests:

Dr. Kees examines how literary form interacts with cultural and theological contexts. Her work on Christina Rossetti explores Victorian poetry’s engagement with the Oxford Movement, while her analysis of Jane Eyre highlights Charlotte Brontë’s use of abolitionist rhetoric to articulate meritocratic philosophy. She emphasizes formal analysis as a lens into authors’ intellectual and cultural inheritances.

Teaching:

With over 20 years of college-level teaching experience (plus three years in high school), Dr. Kees has instructed courses on British literature from medieval to modern periods, American literature surveys, genre studies (fiction/poetry), and interdisciplinary themes like medievalism, modernism, and the concept of “time” across disciplines.

Labs/Teams:

No specific lab affiliations mentioned; her work is primarily textual and theoretical.