Part-time Faculty
B.A. English, Columbia University, 1988
A.M. English, Brown University, 1990
Ph.D. English, Brown University, 1994
Laura Ciolkowski's teaching and research interests include feminist theory and cultural Studies, 19th- and 20th-century literature and Culture, travel literature, gender and the body, genealogies of feminism, and feminist activism. Her scholarly work has been published in a range of journals, including:
Twentieth Century Literature, Studies in the Novel, Genders , and
Novel: A Forum on Fiction and Victorian Literature and Culture . In addition to her scholarly research, Laura is a writer and book critic whose articles and reviews have appeared in
The New York Times ,
The New Yorker magazine, the
Chicago Tribune ,
The Washington Post ,
The Boston Globe , the
Los Angeles Times ,
The Philadelphia Inquirer , and the
San Francisco Chronicle . She is also a lecturer in English at Barnard College and on the faculty of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWaG) at Columbia University.