Lindsy Lawrence

Lindsy Lawrence is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. She teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in nineteenth-century British literature with a focus on publication history and gender roles. She has recently published “‘Afford[ing] me a Place:’ Recovering the Poetry of Felicia Hemans, Caroline Bowles, Margaret Holford Hodson, Catherine Godwin, and Eliza Hamilton in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine” in The Edinburgh History of Victorian Women’s Print Media in Britain, 1830-1900 as well as a recent essay on “Doctor Who and the Neo-Victorian Christmas Serial Tradition” for Neo-Victorian Studies. In addition, she has published two recent articles on indexing poetry in nineteenth-century periodicals, including “Teaching Digital Literacy through Indexing Poetry in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals for the Periodical Poetry Index” for Journal of Victorian Culture Digital Forum. She also published on Elizabeth Gaskell, Downton Abbey, and critical empathetic writing pedagogy. She is Co-Director of the Periodical Poetry Index, a bibliographic database which indexes original poetry and poetry in translation published in nineteenth-century periodicals. She is a recipient of the 2019 Lucille Speakman Travel Award as well as the 2015 UAFS Research Award. She has been a member of RSVP since 2010, presenting conference papers at most of the annual conferences since then. She has also served as a reviewer for VPR as well as on one of the subcommittees for the RSVP bylaws review.