Laura Evers

Laura Evers is a sixth-year PhD candidate and holds a film and media studies graduate certificate. She serves as a senior editor and grants manager for RHINO, a poetry journal based in Chicago, and helps produce the Poetry for All podcast hosted by Abram Van Engen and Joanne Diaz. Her research focuses on 20th and 21st century American literature, particularly interdisciplinarity and fictional representations of U.S. universities. Her undergraduate student seminar, “Campus Novels and Dark Academia: Stories of College Life,” draws from those interests. At WashU, she’s a career coach at the Center for Career Engagement and a graduate student affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity. Her most recent creative and critical work can be found in The Georgia Review, Inside Higher Ed, the Chicago Review of Books, and Iron Horse Literary Review. She’s honored to have received the Provost Research Excellence Award and the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.