September 21, 2006

La Sierra University’s department of English and Communication welcomes Lora Edmister Geriguis as a new assistant professor for fall 2006.

“In the spring I was asked to come and teach a graduate class on 18th century seminar,” says Geriguis. “It was my first time teaching graduate courses and I really enjoyed it, especially the religious knowledge of the students.”

Geriguis earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees all from the University of California, Riverside (UCR). English literature is the area of study where she earned her degrees and she lists her fields as: Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature, Colonialism and Post-Coloniality, and Daniel Defoe.

“While teaching at La Sierra on a 2/3 load, she continues to teach at UCR, and Cal State Fullerton,” says Mary Wilson, Ph.D., chair of English and communication and associate professor of communication. “At La Sierra, Lora will teach two courses this fall: Classical Rhetoric and Criticism, and Playwriting. She will present a paper entitled “A Tale of Two Captivities: Reading the Barbary Slavery Episode in Early American Juvenile Abridgements of Robinson Crusoe,” in October at the Mid Western American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, (in Minneapolis).”

She has published articles, presented at conferences and won awards including a dissertation research fellowship at UCR.

When she is not teaching Geriguis enjoys playing piano, home improvements, and her family. She and husband David, La Sierra University vice president for financial administration, have three children.