Alexandra E. LaGrand
  • Visiting Lecturer

Biography

Alexandra E. LaGrand is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English. She specializes in Shakespearean through British Romantic drama, particularly women's contributions to the performance afterlives of early modern plays. Her book project explores the phenomenon of women's breeches and disguise roles as edited in performance editions and prompt books of plays, and how these roles helped to cultivate British cultural identity between 1773-1842. She also is a digital humanist and launched her database, Points Like A Man: The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue, 1660-1900 (www.pointslikeaman.com), in 2023.

Research Interests

  • Shakespeare
  • Theatre History
  • Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Textual Studies
  • Digital Humanities

Educational Background

  • Ph.D, English, Texas A&M University, 2026
  • M.Litt, Shakespeare and Performance, Mary Baldwin University, 2021
  • B.A., English and Dramatic Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018

Awards & Honors

  • 2026 ASECS-Gale-Cengage Early-Career Research Fellowship

  • 2025 U.S. Senator Phil Gramm Doctoral Fellowship Award

  • 2024 Honorable Mention, Emerging Researcher Open Scholarship Award, Canadian Social Knowledge Institute

Selected Publications

    • “Taming the Tomboy: Child Actresses as Prince Arthur in King John (1842-52).” Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, vol. 52.1, 2025
    • "'From the text of Shakspeare': William Charles Macready, King Lear, and the Theatrical Antiquarianism of Locrine." Journal of the Wooden O, vol. 20.1, 2021