👋🏻 Hello there, I’m Laura!

About me:
I am a fourth-year PhD Candidate in English at Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests include early modern drama and history, gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, book history, and digital humanities. In particular, my research focuses on ancient queens in early modern drama, examining the respective models of race and sexuality produced on the early modern English stage.
Publications:
Articles
“Remediation and Spectral Bibliography: Ghost Hunting in Early Modern Books,” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 15, no. 1 (2025): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.11108.
“Developing Students’ Statistical Expertise in the Age of AI,” Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education (2025), Laura S. DeLuca, Alex Reinhart, Gordon Weinberg, Sydney Miller, Michael Laudenbach, and David West Brown. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2025.2497547.
“Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio?” Shakespeare Quarterly, Christopher N. Warren, Samuel V. Lemley, D.J. Schuldt, Elizabeth Dieterich, Laura S. DeLuca, Max G’Sell, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Kari Thomas, Kartrik Goyal, and Nikolai Volger. DOI.10.1093/sq/quad021.
Book Chapters
“Everything There is to be Learned about Seventeenth-Century Types: Computational Bibliography & The Printers of Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio,” Samuel V. Lemley, Christopher N. Warren, DJ Schuldt, Kari Thomas, Laura S. DeLuca, and Nikolai Vogler. In Samuel V. Lemley, ed., The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023 Penn State University Press, 2024.
Book Reviews
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race. By Noémie Ndiaye. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. pp. 355. Shakespeare Quarterly, September 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/sq/quae030.
News:
November 2025:
Featured in Carnegie Mellon University News. Four Ph.D. Students Receive Humanities Center Conference Grants. November 2025.
October 2025:
Featured in new Statistical Pedagogy & Educational Research TeachStat Group Website.
May 2024:
A CMU news story was released about the Print and Probability Project team’s ESTC stopgap English Short Title Catalogue.
April 2024:
A CMU news story was released about an exhibit made for the Print and Probability Project Inventing Shakespeare Exhibition news story.
March 2024:
Featured in [AI UCSD story](https://ai.ucsd.edu/node/31.
December 2023:
Featured in Carnegie Mellon University Libraries news story about a campus visit by Stephen Greenblatt.
November 2023:
Awarded BSA grant to create educational video on bibliographic color analysis tool titled Hue’s Clues: Understanding Book History through Paper Color Analysis
Teaching:
Instructor of Record, Carnegie Mellon University
ENGL76207-A Special Topics: Queenship: Narratives of Power and Identity Fall 2025
ENGL 76-101 CC: Cleopatra’s Cultural Afterlife: Representations of Ancient Egypt in Popular Discourse Spring 2025, Summer 2025
ENGL 76-106 A3: Writing about Ancient Egypt (2 sections) Spring 2024
ENGL 76-106 C2: Writing about Literature, Art, and Culture (2 sections) Fall 2023
Teaching Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University
ENGL 76-329/729: Performing Race in Early Modernity Spring 2025
ENGL 76-247-A: Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances Fall 2023
ENGL 76-106 C1: Writing about Literature, Art, and Culture Fall 2023
ENGL 76245-A: Shakespeare: Tragedies & Histories Spring 2023
