2014, BA English, Harvard University
2015, postgraduate study, History of Design, Royal College of Art/ Victoria & Albert Museum
Lanier’s research interests include early modern drama, material culture, and the history of the book. In her free time, she is an avid baker and printmaker.
2012, AB, Georgetown University
Teaching Fellow, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
2012, MA English, University of California Irvine
2007, BA English, Loyola Marymount University
I study medieval and early modern literature because it is wild, interesting, weird, and fun. My dissertation, “Tricks of Faith: Trickery as Jest, Test, Experiment, and Corrective in Early Modern English Literature,” focuses on the representation of scientific thinking as it intersects with religious experience on the English stage. As an educator, I bring a little bit of the magical, early modern past into the classroom by teaming up with UNC’s Wilson Rare Book Library and the Ackland Art museum for immersive student projects. I also work as a project assistant for the Blake Archive where I get to generate xml mark-up for some truly captivating William Blake illustrations.
2012, M.A. English Literature, University of South Carolina
2010, B.A. English and Psychology, University of South Carolina Honors College
2014, MA English, Florida Gulf Coast University
2011, BA English, Florida Gulf Coast University
I’m a Ph.D. student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill studying medieval and early modern literature. I’m specifically interested in early modern encyclopedias, epistemology, and the history of science. I’m also interested in insects, gastropods, gender and sexuality, power dynamics, amphibians and amphibiousness, fungi, and the confluence of natural philosophy/magic/religion.
British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) | British Literature from 1660 to 1789 | British Literature from its beginning to 1485 | Digital Humanities | Drama | Early Modern Literature And Culture | Literature and History | Literature and Religion | Literature and Science | Queer Theory
2011, BA English, Colby College
I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and a Graduate Teaching Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill. As a comparatist, I’ve studied Italian, Spanish, ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Irish, and French, and my research interests include Renaissance literature, theatre studies, the history of medicine, classical receptions, translation studies, writing center studies, and pedagogy.
My dissertation “Deceptive Medicine and (Dis)Trust in Renaissance Drama” examines interactions between patients and medical practitioners in English, Italian, and French Renaissance comedies. The project explores how questions of trust and distrust in medical authority are reflected and dramatized in Renaissance theater.
My cross-disciplinary teaching experience has included Italian language courses, first-year composition courses, and literature survey courses. I also served for four years as a coach at the UNC Writing Center, providing one-on-one writing feedback and sharing composition strategies with more than 1000 unique students.
When not teaching, writing, or conducting research, I like to travel the world and to sing in a local community chorus.
