Dr. Laura Davies

Biography

Laura Davies is a College Lecturer at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, specializing in Eighteenth-Century Literature. She serves as the Director of Studies in English and is also a Graduate Tutor at King's College. Her research focuses on British literature from the long eighteenth century, with particular interest in life writing and the textual representation of experiences related to language, narration, death, and spiritual visions. She is currently completing a book about Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, aiming to illuminate the complex ideas surrounding death and the human experience in literature. Additionally, she is leading a public engagement project titled 'A Good Death?', which explores themes of mortality and mourning within the context of the long eighteenth century. Davies is keen on supervising graduate research that intersects literature with theology, philosophy, and cultural history, especially related to death and grief in this literary period.

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