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LAURIE VICKROY
LAURIE VICKROY
Dr. Laurie Vickroy began teaching at Bradley in 1990. She received her Ph. D. from the State
University of New York at Binghampton in Comparative Literature (i.e., the study of languages and
literatures). Her specialty areas include the modern novel (18th to 20th Century), literature and
psychology, and women writers. She has taught the following courses at Bradley: The Novel as Genre
(ENG. 373; ENG. 630), Women in Literature (ENG. 190), Composition with a cultural theme (ENG. 300),
Self, Culture and Narrative (ENG. 380, ENG. 650), Theory and Practice of English (ENG. 500), American
Literature 1865 - present (ENG. 235), Individual Authors-Toni Morrison (ENG. 378), Memory and Fiction
(ENG. 660), Literature and Psychology (ENG. 380), Women Writers (ENG. 331, 660), Modern European
Literature (ENG. 122)], and Western Civilization (CIV. 111-112).
Her research interests focus primarily on literature and psychology, 20th Century culture
and the novel, and women writers. She has published essays on Toni Morrison, Marguerite Duras, Margaret
Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Reinaldo Arenas, Dorothy Allison, Larry Heinemann and Pat Barker. Her book,
Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction, was published by the University of Virginia Press in
Fall 2002. Another book, Critical Essays on American Author Dorothy Allison, which she co-edited
with Dr. Christine Blouch, was published in 2004 with Mellen Press. Her essays and reviews have appeared
in the journals: Mosaic, MELUS, The Comparatist, Comparative Literature, Women and Language, Obsidian II,
and Modern Language Studies.
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