Laura Hochban
M.A. Candidate
| Degrees: | B.A., Hons. History (University of Regina) |
| Email: | laura.hochban@carleton.ca |
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Current Program
M.A. History (2014)
Supervisor
Dr. Pamela Walker
Academic Interests
Early Modern Europe; Nineteenth-century Britain; Gender; Sexuality; Mental health; Medicine; Religion
Select Publications and Current Projects
Conference Presentation:
5 March 2015: Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium. Paper: “Defining the Waist, Defining the Feminine: Reading Contradictions in Victorian Corset Correspondence.”
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant:
- HIST 113: Issues in Canadian History (University of Regina)
- HIST 278: Twentieth-Century Europe (University of Regina)
- HIST 3105: Renaissance Italy (Carleton University)
- HIST 2510: Nineteenth-Century Germany (Carleton University)
- HIST 3120 O: History of the Body (Carleton University)
Description of Research
My current research examines 19th-century tuberculosis as a social disease in Britain. I am exploring the gendering of the consumptive trope in medical and cultural representations of the disease. This project examines relationships between medical pathology and notions of deviance in sex and gender.