Laura Van Dyke, PhD

Part-time Instructor of English

Laura Van Dyke has taught part time in the English department at Trinity Western University since 2015. She completed her PhD at the University of Ottawa in 2019, with specializations in Twentieth-Century British Literature and in the environmental humanities.

  • PhD (University of Ottawa/ Université d’Ottawa; 2019)
  • MA (Trinity Western University; 2011)
  • BA Honours (Trinity Western University; 2009)

Expertise

British and Irish Modernism, Twentieth Century and Contemporary British Literature, Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities, Fantasy Literature, The Inklings

Awards & Honors

  • University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship (2011-2013)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) CGS Doctoral Scholarship (2011)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Joseph-Armand Bombadier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2009)

Recent Publications

Selected Academic Publications

BOOK REVIEWS
  • Review of Victorian Vulgarity: Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture. Eds. Susan David Bernstein and Elsie B. Mitchie. Brontë Studies 35.3 (2010): 301-302. Print.
  • “A Medium for Life.” Review of Claire Tacon’s In the Field. Ed. David Richardson. Foment (2012) 54-55. Print.
BOOK CHAPTERS
  • “‘Self-contained and singing to itself’: Reading the Fairy Melusine in A.S. Byatt’s Possession.” Curious, If True: The Fantastic in Literature. Ed. Amy Bright. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 145-158.
  • “Literature and the ‘Grand Art’: The Poetic Vision of Charles Williams.” The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada. Eds. Monika Hilder, Sara Pearson, and Laura Van Dyke. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
EDITED VOLUMES
  • The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada. Eds. Monika Hilder, Sara Pearson, and Laura Van Dyke. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
PUBLIC FACING SCHOLARSHIP
  • “Taking Eros to Church: Charles Williams and Romantic Theology,” Radix Magazine Fall 2021.

CONFERENCE PAPERS
  • International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) Conference: Race and the Fantastic
    “Monstrous Reflections: Race and Colonialism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
    Orlando Florida, March 17-21 2010
  • Trinity Western University MAIH Colloquium: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Negotiating Literature, History, and Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century “‘My Tales’: Saleem’s Telling of Histories in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children” Langley B.C., Nov. 4 2010
  • American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference 2011: World Literature, Comparative Literature  “‘A world without maps’: Nationalism and Hybridity in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient”
    Vancouver, March 31-April 3 2011
  • University of Victoria Graduate Conference 2011: Curious, If True: The Fantastic in Literature “‘With no eyes on her’: The Fairy Melusine and Self-Constructed Identity in A.S. Byatt’s Possession” Victoria, March 10-12 2011
  • Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Conference “Towards an Alchemical Theology? Hermetic Spiritualities in Lindsay Clarke’s The Chymical Wedding and Patrick Harpur’s Mercurius” Fredericton, May 28-31 2011
  • Trinity Western University Verge Conference “The “mere stress of glory”: Poetry and the Poet in Charles Williams’ Arthuriad” Langley, September 29 2016
  • Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
    “A Coinherent Ecology? Charles Williams’ Arthurian Poetry” Bellingham, Nov 9-11 2018
  • “The Liminal Land of Glome in Lewis’s Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold.” Co-presented with Katharine Bubel. Christianity and Literature Study Group: ACCUTE Conference. Edmonton, May 27-29 2021.

  • ENGL103 Introduction to Fiction 
  • ENGL 104 Introduction to Poetry and Drama 
  • ENGL 218 Studies in Modern Canadian Literature
  • ENGL 318 Studies in Modern Canadian Literature 
  • ENGL 382 Modern British Literature 
  • ENGL 391 Children’s Literature 
  • ENGL 392 Fantasy Literature
  • ENGL 400 Modernist and Postmodernist Metafiction 
  • ENGL 582 Modern British Literature 
  • ENGL 591 Children’s Literature
  • FNDN 201 Ideas That Inspire
  • WRTG 100 Writing in the University Context