Lainie Pomerleau

Dr. Lainie Pomerleau graduated with her PhD in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature from the University of Georgia in 2019. Her work focuses on how the contained, finite nature of narrative time, in which events may be recycled and re-commemorated, creates meaning in pre-modern texts.

Dr. Pomerleau’s current research examines narrative, time, and genre in medieval romance and its relationship to contemporary speculative fiction, as well as the cyclical, apocalyptic nature of kingship in medieval texts and Shakespeare’s history plays. She is also interested in how the homogenization of popular science writing has potentially limited access to that same body of work, as well as ageist pedagogical practices that impact potential students aged thirty and over in the Research I composition classroom.