Laura Laffrado
If you're looking for some quick summer reading, several new articles with ties to Whatcom County just came out.
In The New York Times, Bellingham resident Carol Kaesuk Yoon provides a fascinating and hilarious account of her and her husband's endeavor to…
The C-SPAN cities tour visited Bellingham last month, taking a look at Bellingham's literary culture and history. A couple of Western Washington University faculty members were featured in the series, including Laura Laffrado (here in an interview about hew Ella Higginson Recovery Project) and…
Whatcom County's history and literary scene are the focus of C-SPAN's Cities Tour programming this Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 4 and 5.
On Saturday, a block of literary programs starts at 9 a.m. on BookTV (C-SPAN2, available on Comcast channel 25).
On Sunday, a block of…
Laura Laffrado’s article “Family Matters: Incest and Trauma in Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey” appears in "Literature in the Early American Republic."
Laffrado is a professor of English at Western Washington University.
As a specialist in early U.S. literature, Laura Laffrado knows that once-famous women writers sometimes fall into puzzling obscurity. She also knows that some of those writers have won new attention in recent decades.
But not Ella Higginson of Bellingham.
Rush Seitz (BA ‘09) and Laura Laffrado’s profile of deaf writer Adele George with an excerpt from George’s biography (bringing her work back into print for the first time in 140 years) appears in "Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers." Laffrado is a professor…