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Lauren Wilwerding is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the English Department at Boston College. She specializes in 19th-century British literature, particularly the novel, with additional interests in contemporary literature, pleasure reading, and pedagogy. She earned her Ph.D. from Boston College and taught at Tufts University's first-year writing program, where she held fellowships in teaching innovation. Her research explores intersections of gender, narrative form, and social context in Victorian literature.
Wilwerding teaches courses such as First-year Writing Seminar, Literature Core, and 'All the Single Ladies: Women at the Edge of Culture and History.' Her scholarly work includes analyses of authors like Trollope, Dickens, Gaskell, and Austen, focusing on themes like vocational plots, urban philanthropy, and gender roles. Current projects include a case study on pleasure reading in pedagogy and a re-examination of Northanger Abbey's relevance to modern reading practices.
- Awards: 2021 Faculty Fellow (Tufts CELT), 2023 Scholar for Authentic and Engaged Learning
- Publications: Contributions to Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Dickens Studies Annual, and Persuasions.
Her teaching philosophy emphasizes transformative learning through engagement with literature's cultural and historical dimensions.
