Laura Betz
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Teaching Professor
Areas of study
- British - 18th and 19th
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of Maryland, 2005
M.A. in English, University of Virginia, 1999
B.A. with distinction in English, Minors in Latin and History, University of Virginia, 1997
Research and teaching interests
Research: Romantic Literature, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Textual Studies
Teaching: Romanticism, Long Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature, Poetry and Poetics
Biography
Laura Betz specializes in Romantic and eighteenth-century British literature, with additional interests in poetry and poetics and textual studies. She has published articles on Romantic poetry in Studies in Romanticism and European Romantic Review. Her teaching includes a range of courses in British literature from the Restoration to the present, the gateway course for the English major, and more general courses in poetry. Recent courses have included “Introduction to Literary Studies,” “British Literary Traditions II,” “Introduction to Poetry,” “Civilization and Its Discontents in British Literature,” and “The Romantic Century?: British Literature 1750-1850.”
Representative publications
- “‘At Once Mild and Animating’: Prometheus Unbound and Shelley’s Spell of Style,” European Romantic Review 21:2 (Spring 2010): 161-81
- “Keats and the Charm of Words: Making Sense of The Eve of St. Agnes,” Studies in Romanticism 47 (Fall 2008): 299-319