Kasee Laster, Ph.D.

Kasee Laster

Senior Lecturer

Phone706-310-6223

Office locationStudent Resource Center, 311A, Oconee

Area(s) of Expertise: British literature Renaissance through Edwardian, composition, world literature, business writing

Overview

Dr. Laster has previously served as the chair of the Humanities Department at Shorter College as well as the Director of Education Abroad at the University of Georgia. She teaches a variety of courses but especially enjoys all periods of British literature. Her dissertation concerned Clara Reeve, an eighteenth-century novelist, critic, and antiquarian, and examined Reeve's use of Arthurian materials and insular romances to forge tales of British national identity during the first Gothic novel craze.

Education

  • Ph.D., English, University of Georgia, 1999
  • B.S., Accounting and English, University of the Cumberlands (then, Cumberland College), 1990