Adjunct Instructor, English

 

Degrees

B.A., Oakland University

M.A., Oakland University

Ph.D. Candidate in English, Wayne State University

Office Location: Memorial Hall, 200-B

Phone: 615.547.1367

E-mail: lredmond@cumberland.edu

 

Before coming to Cumberland University in fall of 2006, Laura Redmond lived in Michigan and taught writing at Oakland University and writing and literature at Wayne State University. 

 

Since coming to Cumberland, Professor Redmond has taught the freshman writing sequence (Composition I and II), Introduction to Literature, and Topics in Literature (Retelling Stories, Film, Stage, and Print), and accompanied a group of Cumberland students on a tour of places of literary and historic interest in Scotland and England. 

 

Professor Redmond’s areas of interest include Early Modern British Literature, Shakespeare, drama, poetry, Film Studies, rhetoric, rhetoric and technology, and imaginative writing. She credits William Shakespeare (and the great aunt who gave her a volume of his complete works when she was twelve) for her decision to major in English. 

 

After completing her Bachelor of Arts in English (Summa Cum Laude) (Departmental Honors), with a minor in Studio Art, at Oakland University, Professor Redmond was admitted to the Master of Arts in English program and awarded a Graduate Assistantship. This gave her the additional opportunity to learn what being a professor at a university was like. Professor Redmond’s Master’s Project was “Sir Philip Sidney: From Chivalric Ideal to Renaissance Icon.” 

 

Upon completing the Master of Arts program at Oakland, Professor Redmond entered the doctoral program in English at Wayne State University on a Thomas C. Rumble Recruitment Fellowship. In addition to focusing on Early Modern British Literature, Professor Redmond completed coursework for a cognate in Film Studies and studied French to meet the language requirement and for the fun of it. While completing her coursework and qualifying exams she held a Graduate Teaching Assistantship. Professor Redmond's dissertation prospectus title is “In Praise of English Poets: Elegiac Practice and the Poet as Icon, 1557-1676.”

 

Professor Redmond’s recreational interests include photography, gardening, and home DIY projects.