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	Laura Feitzinger Brown Co-director of the Nisbet Honors Program and Associate Professor of English laura.brown@converse.edu Phone: (864)596-9115 Office: Carmichael Hall, Room 303-H Dr. Brown’s research interests include early modern English sermons and other religious writing, the role of the aural in early modern religion, and Shakespeare and his contemporaries. She is working on a book on the aural in the English church in the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods. She has published articles in Sixteenth Century Journal and in English Language Notes and reviews in Sixteenth Century Journal, Christianity and Literature, Seventeenth-Century News, Ars Lyrica, and the Spenser Newsletter. Dr. Brown's administrative publications include “The Nisbet Honors Program at Converse College” entry for the Peterson’s guide, Honors Programs & Honors Colleges (2002). Dr. Brown coordinated the college-wide Shakespeare Festival (2003), which drew more than 1000 people to the campus to enjoy watching Shenandoah Shakespeare Express perform Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. She has presented 18 conference papers, including nine at national or international conferences on research related to noise, hearing, and early modern England. She has also presented on pedagogical topics at regional conferences. Dr. Brown won the college’s Katheryne Amelia Brown Teaching Award in 2005 and teaches courses on Shakespeare, on Renaissance poetry, and on music and poetry. Other areas of instruction include the college-wide humanities course (“Ideas and Culture”), English composition, adolescent literature, and introductory literature courses. Dr. Brown also leads courses in the Nisbet Honors Program, including freshman honors seminars (“Shakespeare’s Women” and “Music and Poetry”) and interdisciplinary honors seminars (such as a course team-taught with a biologist on the topics of human sexuality and the literature of love, marriage, and childbirth).