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Laura Brown holds the John Wendell Anderson chair and serves in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, where she is also the director of the English PhD program and the Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. She has held the presidency of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. As a professor and scholar, Brown focuses on the cultural aspects of eighteenth-century literary culture, publishing seven books and numerous critical essays. Her recent works, including 'Counterhuman Imaginary: Storms, Pets, Traveling Coinage' and 'Homeless Dogs Melancholy Apes: Humans Animals Modern Literary Imagination', investigate the interactions between human creativity and other-than-human entities. Her research encompasses themes such as posthumanism and animal studies, emphasizing species difference and environmental considerations in the context of literary studies.
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