معرفی
Laura Tanner is a Professor in the English Department at Boston College. She specializes in American literature of the last century, with particular focus on modernist narrative, African-American fiction, and contemporary women’s writing. Her research examines representations of grief, illness, violence, and the everyday in fiction and visual art. She holds a B.A. from Colgate University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Focus
Tanner's scholarship explores the intersection of embodiment and narrative across three primary domains: Modernist literature (especially sensory perception), African-American fiction (racialized spaces and trauma), and contemporary women's writing (domesticity and bodily experience). Her work bridges literary analysis with visual culture and medical humanities.
Publication Trends
Her publications show evolving engagement with embodied trauma—from early work on rape narratives and AIDS representation to recent studies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction and 9/11 materiality. Articles consistently analyze how literature mediates bodily experience through spatial, visual, and affective frameworks.
