Laura MacGowan

Laura's research focuses on how women poets in eighteenth-century Britain used religion to negotiate the rapidly changing cultural and metaphysical landscapes of the Enlightenment, with particular attention to how they appropriated Biblical narratives to reimagine female subjectivity. Her dissertation deals with a group of women poets who, building on the foundation laid by Dissenting poet Elizabeth Singer Rowe, turned stories from the Hebrew Bible into poetry for the purpose of social and theological critique.