Meet Sarah Juliet Lauro
Editor, Studies in the Fantastic/Associate Professor, English/Spartan Studies Director, Humanities
Phone: (813) 257-3322
Email: slauro@ut.edu; slauro@ut.edu
Address: 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33606
Mailbox: R
Building:
PH
Room: 233
Education
2000 University of California at Berkeley, B.A.2004 New York University, M.A.
2006 University of California at Davis, M.A.
2011 University of California at Davis, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
AWR 201 Writing and ResearchLIT 126 Lit and Film Classics
LIT 209 Am Lit Survey II
Lit 425 Senior Seminar
Career Specialties
Lauro's areas of expertise are located in postcolonial literature, especially of the Caribbean, American literature and film. Though she is most known for her scholarship on the myth of the zombie, she is also interested in narratives of disability, and modern-day narratives of slavery and revolt, which she studies in a range of media.
In addition to her other duties, Lauro provides leadership for the humanities, arts and languages areas of the Spartan Studies general education program and can be reached at SSD-Humanities@ut.edu.