Laura Williamson

Faculty Profiles

Laura Williamson

Laura Williamson

Professor
Humanistic Studies
147 Spes Unica Hall
(574) 284-4465
lwilliamson@saintmarys.edu
https://sites.google.com/prod/view/laurawilliamson
Education

PhD, University of Michigan
BA, Rutgers University
 

Research Interests
  • Travel Literature
  • Women & Travel
  • History of Cartography
  • Mobility Studies
  • Digital and Public Humanities
Courses Recently Taught
  • HUST 103: Lives and Times
  • HUST 323: Ancient and Medieval Literature
  • HUST 324: Medieval and Renaissance Literature
  • HUST 463: Early Modern Literature
  • DPH 201: Humanities @ Work (Introduction to the Digital and Public Humanities)
  • DPH 250: Humanities Data
  • ENLT 317: Shakespeare in Our Time
Creative and Scholarly Work
  • "Backyard DH: Community Collaboration and Digital Public Humanities Pedagogy." The De Gruyter Handbook for Feminist Digital Scholarship: DS/DH Around the Kitchen Table. De Gruyter Brill (forthcoming 2026) Co-authored with Sarah Noonan.
  • "Moved by God: Mobility and Spiritual Agency in Anna Trapnel's Repent & Plea." Renaissance Studies. (2019)
  • “Lady Anne Clifford’s ‘Way’ and Aristocratic Women’s Travel,” Traveling/Travailing Women: Early Modern England and the Wider World. Edited by Bernadette Andrea and Patricia Akhimie. University of Nebraska Press (November 2018)
  • "Crossing and Communications in Shakespeare's England." The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare. Edited by Bruce R. Smith and Katherine Rowe. Cambridge University Press. (2016)
  • “Travel in Time: Local Travel and Seventeenth-Century English Almanacs.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. (2013)
     
Professional Memberships
  • Shakespeare Association of America
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender