After holding a position at the University of Iowa, Deborah Laycock, a specialist in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, came to Kenyon College in 1991. She has since also developed Canadian literature as a field for research and teaching. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled "An Eighteenth-Century Sense of Place: The Urban Pastoral" and has begun work on a project examining gender and metamorphosis in early modern culture, an early version of which has appeared in an essay in Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation (SUNY Press, 1997). She has served as the Chair of the Committee on Academic Standards and has twice served as Resident Director of the Kenyon-Exeter Program at the University of Exeter.

Areas of Expertise

Restoration drama, eighteenth-century British literature and culture, Canadian literature

Education

Ph.D. Stanford University
M.A. University of British Columbia
B.A. University of Alberta

Courses Taught

ENGL 103/104 Literature and Language
ENGL 240 Early Eighteenth-Century British Literature
ENGL 339 Restoration Drama
ENGL 341 Late Eighteenth-Century British Literature
ENGL 342 The Eighteenth-Century Novel
ENGL 369 Canadian Literature and Culture