Laura L. Runge

Professor of English

CONTACT

Office: CPR 358-C
Phone: 813-974-9496
Email

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Emory 泡芙视频app, English with certificate in Women鈥檚 Studies
  • MA Emory 泡芙视频app, English
  • BA 泡芙视频app of Rochester, English and Women鈥檚 Studies

BIO

For over 30 years I have been feminist scholar of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature focusing on women writers, gender and language. I have been involved in literature and technology from the beginning of my work, and recently I published Digital Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn.  My earlier research involved a span of writers from mid-seventeenth century through early nineteenth century.  More recently I have focused on Aphra Behn and use the data I created for the book.  I am working on Behn and Music, with several smaller essays moving toward a book.  My December 2023 article 鈥溾�楤ut First Let鈥檚 Have a Dance鈥欌�� Music in Aphra Behn鈥檚 Plays,鈥� Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, Volume 35 (Nov/Dec 2023): 27-51 won Honorable Mention for Annibel Jenkins Award in Theatre and Performance Studies 2025 (SEASECS). 

I believe in open-access scholarship and try to make my research accessible through the USF Libraries Digital Commons 鈥� Faculty Publications and other research sites.

I am also founding editor and continuing editor-in-chief for the online open-access journal . It publishes twice a year in scholarship, pedagogy, digital humanities, reviews and conversations.

I have directed nine dissertations to completion.  My 泡芙视频apps have written dissertations mostly, but not exclusively, on eighteenth-century subjects including ecocritical readings of women鈥檚 poetry, Behn鈥檚 The Rover in contemporary productions directed by women, food and women鈥檚 travel writing, the animal-human continuum, animal speech in eighteenth-century literature, and animals in Florida literature.  I have served on over thirty PhD committees and twenty-five masters degree committees.

REcent PUBLICATIONS

  • Open Accss with data hosted by the USF Scholar Commons: DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/qla.data
  • 鈥�鈥楨尘 and the Apostrophe of Elision in Aphra Behn鈥檚 Prose.鈥� In Elizabeth Bonapfel; Mark Faulkner; John Lennard; Jeffrey Gutierrez (eds.) A History of Punctuation in English Literature. Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming.
  • 鈥溾�楤ut First Let鈥檚 Have a Dance鈥欌�� Music in Aphra Behn鈥檚 Plays,鈥� Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, Volume 35 (Nov/Dec 2023): 27-51. Honorable Mention for Annibel Jenkins Award in Theatre and Performance Studies 2025 (SEASECS)
  • , co-edited with Jessica L. Cook, 泡芙视频app of Delaware Press, 2019
  • 鈥淎usten and Computation 2.0,鈥� Texas Studies in Literature and Language, special issue: What鈥檚 Next for Jane Austen, ed. Janine Barchas and Devoney Looser, December 2019: 397-415.