{"id":1498,"date":"2021-12-15T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2021-12-15T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:13:19","slug":"laura-biesiadecki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/2021\/12\/15\/laura-biesiadecki\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Biesiadecki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\">Laura Biesiadecki <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/12\/photo_2021-12-15_13-11-45.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1499 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/12\/photo_2021-12-15_13-11-45-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/12\/photo_2021-12-15_13-11-45-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/12\/photo_2021-12-15_13-11-45-644x1024.jpg 644w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/12\/photo_2021-12-15_13-11-45-768x1221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/12\/photo_2021-12-15_13-11-45.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Laura Biesiadecki is a doctoral student in the Department of English at Temple University. She worked as a Graduate Research Fellow in the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio (2019-2020) and is currently serving as the Graduate Assistant for Temple&#8217;s First-Year Writing Office (2021-2022). Her teaching and research interests include American modernist fiction, gender studies, spatial studies, and digital humanities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">She has taught first-year writing, general education, and literature courses at Temple University and Neumann University, and is a senior lecturer at the University of the Arts. Her essay, &#8220;Laughing with Them: Comedy in the First-Year Writing Classroom&#8221; is forthcoming in an installment of the MLA Options for Teaching series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Laura is working on her dissertation, a literary and cultural study of domestic space and its impact on the creative lives of American women (Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and Shirley Jackson, among others). The project will provide a theoretical framework by which to evaluate the contributions of iconic American women writers to fictional representations of space, as well as their influence on various iterations of the &#8220;home&#8221; and national trends of architecture and design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Laura holds a BA in English from Loyola University-Maryland and an MA in English from Rutgers University-Newark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Contact: <a href=\"mailto:laura.biesiadecki@temple.edu\">laura.biesiadecki@temple.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">To be featured, contact Jenna Sterling at TempleGEA@gmail.com or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/grad-student-spotlights\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Biesiadecki Laura Biesiadecki is a doctoral student in the Department of English at Temple University. She worked as a Graduate Research Fellow in the Loretta C. 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