Kasee Laster, Ph.D.
Area(s) of Expertise: British literature Renaissance through Edwardian, composition, world literature, business writing
Overview
Dr. Laster has previously served as the chair of the Humanities Department at Shorter College as well as the Director of Education Abroad at the University of Georgia. She teaches a variety of courses but especially enjoys all periods of British literature. Her dissertation concerned Clara Reeve, an eighteenth-century novelist, critic, and antiquarian, and examined Reeve's use of Arthurian materials and insular romances to forge tales of British national identity during the first Gothic novel craze.
Education
- Ph.D., English, University of Georgia, 1999
- B.S., Accounting and English, University of the Cumberlands (then, Cumberland College), 1990