Grace LaFrentz
Grace LaFrentz is a third-year English PhD student from Huntsville, Alabama. Her research interests broadly address questions of gender, authorship, and classical reception (with a focus on Ovid) in early modern literature, and particularly in early modern women’s writing. Her master’s thesis examined the influence of gendered classical ideas about the material of wax on questions of memorialization in John Webster’s play, The Duchess of Malfi.
Specialization(s)
- Early modern literature
- Early modern classicism
- Early modern women's writing
- Feminist theory
Awards
John M. Aden Award, 2023
Awarded by the Vanderbilt Department of English for the essay, “Echo(e)s in Gaspara Stampa’s Rime”
Susan Ford Wiltshire Award for Best Graduate Essay, 2022
Awarded by the Vanderbilt Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies for the essay, “Blood Soil: Surviving the Afterlives of Slavery in The Gilda Stories”
Outstanding Undergraduate English Major Award, 2021
Awarded by the Vanderbilt Department of English