{"id":56821,"date":"2014-01-09T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=56821"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:25:06","slug":"laura-korobkin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/laura-korobkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Korobkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Korobkin&#8217;s scholarship and teaching focus primarily on 19th\u00a0century American fiction, with a special interest in women writers, intersections of law and narrative, and reading literature in a transatlantic context. She was a lawyer before becoming an English professor, and much of her scholarship uses a historically informed study of law to analyze literary works. Laura has written about such matters as Hawthorne\u2019s presentation of the Puritan criminal justice system in<i>The Scarlet Letter<\/i>, Hurston\u2019s handling of self-defense in\u00a0<i>Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/i>, Brown\u2019s use of trial structure, evidence, and concepts of insanity and murder in\u00a0<i>Wieland<\/i>, and Stowe\u2019s insertion of the complete text of an important antislavery court decision into\u00a0<i>Dred.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Laura&#8217;s current project is a book about the creative rivalry between Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Dickens, the two best-selling authors in English in the mid-19th\u00a0century, investigating how each borrowed from and reacted against the other\u2019s work. She currently teaches specialized courses and graduate seminars on such topics as American law and narrative (using both legal and literary texts), American ethnic women writers (from mid-19th\u00a0C to contemporary), marriage and money in American fiction, and a new course called \u201cJane Eyre\u2019s American Sisters,\u201d studying novels from 1850 to 1980 that respond to and reinvent the strategies and substance of Bronte\u2019s fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70956,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56821\/revisions\/70956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}