Lauren Eriks Cline, Ph.D.

Biography

Lauren Eriks Cline earned her BA degrees in English and French at Hope College and completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Michigan. In her years of postdoctoral and faculty work, she’s taught courses in drama, film, television, and the novel; literary and cultural theory; and British literature across periods.

Lauren’s research investigates the intersections among spectatorship, narrative, and performance, and she is currently writing a book that examines how stories about theatergoing shaped Victorian ideas about race. Her previous work has appeared in a number of journals and edited collections, including Theatre Survey, Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film, Victorian Literature and Culture, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She enjoys hiking, camping, and browsing used book stores.