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Laureen Tedesco is an Associate Professor in the English Department at East Carolina University, part of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on children's literature with specialization in 19th/early 20th century girls' fiction, gender roles, and evangelical influences. She teaches courses on children's literature, women in literature, and American Renaissance topics. Tedesco holds a B.A. from Nicholls State University, M.A. from University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.
Her work examines how literature reflected social movements like abolition, temperance, and women's suffrage. She curated a Joyner Library exhibit on North Carolina missionary women's letters and chairs the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Committee for the Children's Literature Association. Recent publications explore Girl Scout history, evangelical author Pansy (Isabella Alden), and Margaret Sidney's correspondence with children's editors.
Teaching responsibilities include ENGL 3950 (Literature for Children), ENGL 3300 (Women in Literature focusing on girlhood education), and graduate courses in bibliography and children's literature studies. Her research presentations include a 2016 talk at Minute Man National Historical Park on children's periodical editorials.
