Laura Loth
Laura Loth is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Her research interests include Trauma Studies, Disaster Studies, and Environmental Studies within the context of Francophone Literature, particularly the literature of the Caribbean, the Maghreb, and Quebec. She has published on the literature of disasters in Women in French, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and Research in African Literatures. Her chapter “Rethinking Caribbean Communities: The Dynamics of Natural Disasters in the Works of Gisèle Pineau” appeared in Contemporary Caribbean Dynamics: Re-configuring Caribbean Culture Eds. Beatrice Boufoy-Bastick and Savrina Chinian, 2015. Currently, she is pursuing a project that seeks to find models for addressing climate change in narratives of early disasters in the Francophone Caribbean.
