Assistant Professor of English
Graduate Advisor
L.E.Geriguis@lasierra.edu

Teaching Areas:
British literature of the early seventeenth-century, Restoration, and eighteenth-century periods, including poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction, and satire; rise of the novel; colonialism and post-coloniality; literary theory and criticism.

Education:
Dr. Geriguis earned her doctorate in 1997 from the University of California, Riverside with an emphasis on 17th and 18th British literature, Colonialism/Post-coloniality, and Daniel Defoe. She also earned her B.A. (1991, major in English, minor in Classical Studies) and M.A. (1993, emphasis in Medieval and Renaissance Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature) from the University of California, Riverside; but, previously, she enjoyed attending Newbold College (1987-1989 Bracknell, England) as an undergraduate where she first discovered her passion for the literature of Great Britain.

Recent Presentations:
“From the Margins to the Center and Back Again: Self-Marginalization and Public Centeredness in the Publication History of James Bruce’s Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790).” October 2007. Mid Western American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies: Kansas City, Missouri.

Mid Western American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies: Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“From Ambivalent Adventurer to Sunday School Hero:

“‘To chasten wit, and moralize the stage:’ Comedy vs. Morality in English Nationalistic Theatre.” February 2005. Western Society of Eighteen-Century Studies: Long Beach, California.

International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies: UCLA.

“Dryden’s Tempest: Restoration Solutions to Shakespeare’s Problem Play.” February 2003.

Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Huntington Library.

“Bows Without Arrows and the Cheat: Barbarous Technology and Civilized Violence in Defoe’s Captain Singleton.” February 2002. Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Chapman University: Orange, California.

Publication Activity:
Book review published in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 97:1 (Jan. 1998) of Mary C. Fuller’s Voyages in Print: English Travel to America 1576-1624.

Article submitted to the Eighteenth Century Fiction (21:1), Fall 2008 special issue on Death in Fiction: “Deadly Plots and Doubting Narration in Defoe’s Captain Singleton.”

Article submitted to Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research: “Moralizing English Nationalism in the Comedies of Etherege, Steele, and Sheridan.”

Article to be submitted per request to Eighteenth-Century Fiction: “Filming Friday: Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as an Anti-Colonial Myth.”

Dissertation:
“Bows Without Arrows: The Role of Native Agency in the Travel Narratives of Daniel Defoe and other English Texts, 1668-1790,” completed in 1997, examines the way representations of native potency in English travel literature of the mercantile colonial period were alternatively used to rationalize colonial appropriation and justify colonial violence as exemplified in the works of Henry Neville, Daniel Defoe, and James Bruce.