Laurie Sterling, Ph.D.
Laurie Sterling, Professor of English, received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Rochester and her B.A. in literature and history from Bucknell University. In addition to Academic Writing and Liberal Arts Seminar, she teaches courses on fairy tales, early and nineteenth-century American literature, Gothic literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, and the Bluebeard myth. She has published on authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Edith Wharton. She currently serves as Director of the Writing Center. In addition to her academic pursuits, Dr. Sterling enjoys spending time with her horses and her Greyhounds, and she has had her writing published in equestrian journals.