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Anne Laskaya, Mentor
English

Nathan Benjamin, McNair Scholar

Anne Laskaya first joined the UO Department of English as an instructor in 1983. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1989 and has twice been director of the UO composition program, first from 1995-2002 and second from 2003-2006. Along the way, she received an Ersted award for distinguished teaching. Currently an Associate Professor of English, Laskaya’s specialties are medieval literature and women writers. Her publications include Chaucer's Approach to Gender in The Canterbury Tales (D.S. Brewer, 1995); “The Rhetoric of Incest in the Middle English Emaré,” in Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts, Anna Walecka Roberts, ed. (University Press of Florida, 1998); and “The Feminized World and Divine Violence: Texts and Images of the Apocalypse,” in Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts, Eve Salisbury, et al., eds., (University of Florida Press, 2002).