Elise Lauterbach teaches writing and composition at Rhodes. A native Memphian, she graduated from Haverford College with a major in English, and attended the University of Virginia for graduate school, where she is a doctoral candidate in English. Her primary areas of interest are Eighteenth-Century British literature and theater and bibliographic, or book history, studies.  But her course topics encompass a broader circle, examining social performance, self-fashioning,  and textual representation. Recent courses have included “The Secret Lives of Things,” “Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries,” and a book history class where students purchased and researched the history of a 100+ yr old book of their choice. VITA (PDF)

Professor Lauterbach′s books

Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks