Rate My Professor Lora Geriguis

Her research focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, ecocriticism, Daniel Defoe and contemporaries, the rise of the novel, working-class poets, and biblical literature. She examines environmental consciousness in texts from 1653-1734 for her book project "'Wit From Nature's Store: Reading Texts for/of Environmental Consciousness, 1653-1734.'" Select publications include "Stormy Weather and the Gentle Isle: Apprehending the Environments of Three Robinsonades" (Rewriting Crusoe, Bucknell University Press, 2020); “The ‘it’ and the ‘Joy that Kills’: An Ecocritical Reading of Kate Chopin's ‘The Story of an Hour’” (The Explicator, 2019); “Fellows Among the Bookshelves: The Royal Society’s Book-Gifting Network of the 1660s” (Pacific Coast Philology, 2017); "Transplanting the Duchess: Margaret Cavendish and the ‘Chronic Dilemmas’ of Literary Anthology Construction" (English Studies, 2017); and "In the Immensity of Nature Lost: Vision, Nature, and the Metaphysical in the Landscape of Richard Lewis' 'A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis'" (Early American Literature, 2016, with Sam McBride and Melissa Brotton). Awards include Service Learning Faculty Member of the Year (2018), Verla Rae Kwiram Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (2017), and Godfrey T. Anderson Award for Excellence.