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About Alma
ALMA — Alma College’s Great Lakes Watershed Institute (GLWI) will benefit from an $850,000 earmark in the federal government funding bill signed in March, which is going, in part, toward
Faculty
Laura Kuske von Wallmenich researches and teaches early American literature, colonial through the late nineteenth century. She is fascinated by the role literature plays in shaping American cultural identities, and as such, her approach to literature is highly interdisciplinary. Her research has focused largely on colonial and early national representations of Native Americans, and especially of whites captive to Native Americans. She is also very interested in the rise of the novel and the “translation.”
Educational Background:
Signature Courses:
Transatlantic 18th Century; African-American Literature; Survey of American Literature I; Tolkien’s World.
Early American literature.
Gilbert, J., & von Wallmenich, L. (2014). When Words Fail Us: Mother Time, Relational Attention, and the Rhetorics of Focus and Balance. Women’s Studies in Communication, 37(1), 66-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2013.867915