Graduate Instructor

office: 84 McReynolds
phone: 573-882-0682
email: karenlaird@mizzou.edu
office hours: M/W 9:30-10:30 a.m.,
and by appointment

Research and teaching areas:
Nineteenth-Century British Literature,
The Victorian Novel, Visual Culture,
Film Adaptation

Karen Laird

Karen Laird (PhD Candidate, ABD) specializes in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Her master's thesis [Un]Resolution: The Case of Closure in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White explored problems of closure in the first sensation novel. Karen's dissertation, "Melodrama's Afterlife: Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and The Woman in White from the Victorian Stage to the Silent Screen," traces the evolution of popular Victorian novels into plays and films.

Education
BA, English/Writing, Loyola College in Maryland
MA, English, University of Missouri-Columbia

Courses Taught

• English 1000: Exposition and Argumentation
• English 1210: Introduction to British Literature
• English 1810: Introduction to Film: Beginning to 1945
• English 1820: Introduction to Film, 1945-Present
• English 2000: The Brontës
• English 2100: Writing About Literature
• English 3210: Survey of British Literature, Romanticism to Present
  

Selected Awards

• Donald E. and Mary Frances Hayden English Fellowship Award
• Mary Lago Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
• The Midwest Association of Graduate Schools ParamGun Sood Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award
• University of Missouri Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award
  

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