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Lauren Curtright is an Associate Professor of English. Prior to joining Ottawa University in Surprise, Arizona in 2023, she was a member of the English faculty of Georgia State University’s Perimeter College and a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She directed the University System of Georgia’s summer study abroad program in Paris, France in 2022 and 2023, and she taught literature and film courses in the USG’s summer program in Madrid, Spain in 2018 and its summer program in Paris in 2016 and 2019. Her scholarly publications include articles on Dorothy Richardson’s film writing, Edgar Allan Poe’s relationship with photography, and Mark Twain’s constructions of genealogy and race. She co-edited the book Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics (Rowman & Littlefield’s Lexington Books, 2017) with Doris Bremm. She worked with a team to revise the open-source textbook Successful College Composition with a grant from Affordable Learning Georgia. Dr. Curtright has presented at many conferences including those held by the Modern Language Association, the International Gothic Association, the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, the Poe Studies Association, and the Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminars.

Dr. Curtright completed her PhD in English at the University of Minnesota focusing on cultural theory, film studies, and American literature. Before earning her MA in English from Indiana University, she was a valedictorian of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, where she majored in English, minored in anthropology, and participated in study abroad in Yucatán, Mexico.