Eliza Fisher Laskowski, Ph.D

Associate Professor of English

Education

• BA English, Sewanee
• MA English, University of Alabama
• Ph.D. English, UNC-Chapel Hill

Activities & Honors

• McCormick Distinguished Teaching Award, 2014
• Dramaturg for William Peace Theatre
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Omicron Delta Kappa

Research & Publications

• “Royal Masque, Remarkable Paradox: The Theater of Apollo (Royal 18 A LXX).” The 22st Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, New College of Florida (March 2022).
• “‘A Brief and Puzzling Performance’: What One Theatrical Moment at a 2016 Campaign Rally Can Tell Us About Early Modern Masques.” The 21st Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, New College of Florida (March 2018).
• “‘Exceeding rare & full of variety’: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Seventeenth-Century Masque.” The 17th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010.
• “Masquing Before the World: Using Spectacle to Construct an International Identity from the Seventeenth Century to the Twenty-First.” The 2008 Annual Meeting of the Southern Comparative Literature Association, 2008.
• “Transforming the ‘Corporal Rinde’: The Songs of Milton’s A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle.” Published in The Uncircumscribed Mind: Reading Milton Deeply. Edited by Charles W. Durham and Kristin A. Pruitt. Susquehanna University Press, 2007.
• Dissertation: Performance, Politics, and Religion: Reconstructing Seventeenth-Century Masque, UNC Chapel Hill, 2006.