Laura Dabundo

Laura Dabundo was born in Philadelphia, reared in Johnstown, PA, and formally educated in PA—BA, summa cum laude, with honors in English, Phi Beta Kappa, at Bucknell University; AM from Bryn Mawr College, and PhD from Temple University with specialization in Wordsworth and British Romanticism. Before an academic career, she worked for five years as an editor for J. B. Lippincott in Philadelphia. Later, she taught for nearly 30 years full-time at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, where she particularly loved to teach British Romanticism, Jane Austen, the Gothic, Detective and Murder Fiction, and the Bible as Literature. She is a lifelong Episcopalian and a lay companion of the Anamchara Fellowship, a dispersed, Celtic-inflected, monastic community for women and men. She has presented academic papers in the USA, Canada, England, and Ireland and has to her credit five books: the first Encyclopedia of Romanticism, Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters, The Marriage of Faith: Christianity in Wordsworth and Austen, Jane Austen: A Companion, and When the Parallel Converge.