Dr. Laura White
Professor
Departments / Programs
- English
- English [M.A.]
- Department of English
- Africana Studies Minor
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Liberal Arts [M.A.]
- Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate
Degree Information
- PHD, SUNY Binghamton University (2009)
- MA, University of Delaware (1999)
- BA, University of Scranton (1995)
Areas of Expertise
- Global Anglophone literatures
- Ecocriticism
- Gender and sexuality studies
Biography
Dr. Laura White teaches courses in contemporary Anglophone literatures (African, Australian, Caribbean and South Asian literatures), postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism. Her book Ecospectrality: Haunting and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Anglophone Novels was published by Bloomsbury Academic in May 2020. Ecospectrality analyses ways that ghosts and hauntings make the dispersed temporal and geographic scales of environmental threats narratable and...
Read More »Dr. Laura White teaches courses in contemporary Anglophone literatures (African, Australian, Caribbean and South Asian literatures), postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism. Her book Ecospectrality: Haunting and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Anglophone Novels was published by Bloomsbury Academic in May 2020. Ecospectrality analyses ways that ghosts and hauntings make the dispersed temporal and geographic scales of environmental threats narratable and urgently present for readers, allowing for an expanded awareness of human cohabitation with and responsibilites to other beings and other generations. She is also interested in gender and sexuality studies and feminist environmentalism, and she teaches courses on these topics for MTSU's Women's and Gender Studies Program.
