photograph by Patrick Hinely

Laura Fairchild Brodie
Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Department of English
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-5896
Washington Hall 5
email: BrodieL@wlu.edu

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Virginia
M.A., English, University of Virginia
B.A., Harvard University

Teaching

Composition and Literature
Reading Lolita
Poetry

Books

The Widow's Season. Berkley Books, a division of Penguin, forthcoming in 2009. Novel.

One Good Year: Love in a Time of Homeschooling. Harper, forthcoming in 2010. Memoir.

Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women. NY: Pantheon Books, 2000.

Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women. NY: Vintage Books, 2001. Paperback edition with a new afterword.

Work in Progress

Novel, The Widow's Season, winner of the 2005 Faulkner Society/Evans Harrington Grant for Best Novel-Progress.

Articles, stories, and reviews

"Spiderman Summer ," Shenandoah, forthcoming in spring 2008.

"Jane Austen and the Common Reader," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Spring 1995.

"Society and the Superfluous Female: Jane Austen's Treatment of Widows," Studies in English Literature, Autumn 1994.

"An Interview with Amy Clampitt," The American Poetry Review, August 1987.

Review of Life After Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen, Journal of British Studies, v. 45, no. 4, October 2006.

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