| 词条 | Laura Walls |
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Laura Dassow Walls (born Laura Dassow in Ketchikan, Alaska) is an American professor of English literature and currently the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Areas of researchWalls has researched the intersections of literature and science in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Alexander von Humboldt and related authors.[1] She specializes in American Transcendentalism—especially Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, transatlantic romanticism, literature and science, and environmental literature and ecocriticism.[2] Books authored
| last1 = Walls | first1 = Laura Dassow | title = Henry David Thoreau: A Life | location = Chicago, Illinois | publisher = University Of Chicago Press | date= 2017-07-07 | isbn = 978-0-226-34469-0 }}
| last1 = Walls | first1 = Laura Dassow | title = The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America | location = Chicago, Illinois | publisher = University Of Chicago Press | date= 2009-09-30 | isbn = 978-0-226-87182-0 }}
| last1 = Walls | first1 = Laura Dassow | title = Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth | location = Ithaca, New York | publisher = Cornell University Press | date= 2003-03-06 | isbn = 978-0-8014-4044-1 }}
| last1 = Walls | first1 = Laura Dassow | title = Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science | location = Madison, Wisconsin | publisher = University of Wisconsin Press | date= 1995-11-15 | isbn = 978-0-299-14744-0 }}Books edited
| last1 = Myerson | first1 = Joel | last2 = Petrulionis | first2 = Sandra Harbert | last3 = Walls | first3 = Laura Dassow | title = The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism | location = Oxford, England | publisher = Oxford University Press | date= 2010-04-16 | isbn = 978-0-19-533103-5 }}
| last1 = Petrulionis | first1 = Sandra Harbert | last2 = Walls | first2 = Laura Dassow | title = More Day to Dawn: Thoreau's 'Walden' for the Twenty-first Century (Spirit of Thoreau) | location = Boston, Massachusetts | publisher = University of Massachusetts Press | date= 2006-12-31 | isbn = 978-1-55849-576-0 }}
| last1 = Thoreau | first1 = Henry David | last2 = Walls | first2 = Laura Dassow | last3 = Huber | first3 = J. Parker | title = Material Faith: Thoreau on Science | location = Boston, Massachusetts | publisher = Mariner Books | date= 1999-05-31 | isbn = 978-0-395-94800-2 }} Awards and degreesWalls received the University of South Carolina’s Russell Research Award in spring 2010.[1] She won the Merle Curti Award for best book in American intellectual history by the Organization of American Historians in April 2010. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in May 2010.[2][3] In October 2010, she won the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Award for the best book in literature and science by the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.[4] Walls received the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize for her book, The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America, on January 7, 2011 at the MLA’s annual convention.[4] She has been awarded the 2012 Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Distinguished Achievement Award.[5] She studied at University of Washington earning a B.A. for English/Creative Writing in 1976 and an M.A. for English in 1978. She earned a Ph.D. from Indiana University in American Literature in 1992. Before going to University of South Carolina, she taught at Indiana University and Lafayette College.[2] Professor Walls joined the Notre Dame faculty in fall 2011 as the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English. She succeeds Gerald Bruns, who retired from Notre Dame in 2008 and inaugurated the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English chair.[6] References1. ^{{cite web | title = Recipients of the Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences | publisher = University of South Carolina | url = http://www.sc.edu/provost/ruawdhss.shtml | accessdate = December 19, 2010 }} 2. ^1 2 {{Cite web | title = Laura Dassow Walls: 2010 - US & Canada Competition: Creative Arts - Biography | publisher = John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | url = http://www.gf.org/fellows/16885-laura-dassow-walls | accessdate = December 19, 2010 }} 3. ^{{Cite web | title = Guggenheim Fellow 2010 | publisher = John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | url = http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&lower_bound=2010&page=5&query=&upper_bound=2010&x=21&y=12 | accessdate = December 19, 2010 }} 4. ^1 {{Cite press release | title = A New 'Age of Humboldt' Dawning with Unprecedented Win of Prizes by University of South Carolina Professor | publisher = University of South Carolina | date = December 17, 2010 | url = http://www.newswise.com/articles/a-new-age-of-humboldt-dawning-with-unprecedented-win-of-prizes-by-university-of-south-carolina-professor | accessdate = December 19, 2010 }} 5. ^{{cite news | last = Basile | first = Joanna | title = English Professor Laura Dassow Walls Studies Emerson and Science | publisher = University of Notre Dame - College of Arts and Letters | date = August 29, 2012 | url = http://al.nd.edu/news/32828-english-professor-laura-dassow-walls-studies-emerson-and-science/ | accessdate = August 30, 2012 }} 6. ^1 {{cite web | last = Cohorst | first = Kate | title = Laura Dassow Walls Joins Department of English | publisher = University of Notre Dame: The College of Arts and Letters | date = March 31, 2011 | url = http://al.nd.edu/news/19116-laura-dassow-walls-joins-department-of-english/ | accessdate = April 2, 2011 }} External links
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