Dr. Laura Sterrett serves as an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Milligan University, where she teaches courses in Renaissance and Early Modern Cultures (HUMN 102), 18th and 19th Century Cultures (HUMN 201), composition, and English electives focused on British literature from the late medieval period to the nineteenth century. Her expertise spans from late medieval and Renaissance English literature to British and European nineteenth-century literature, with particular research interests in early modern religious literature, Christianity and literature, and women writers.

Dr. Sterrett’s dissertation, titled Motions of the Soul: A Poetics of Religious Desire in Early Modern Metrical Psalms, explores 16th- and 17th-century poetic paraphrases of the Psalms. She has published an article on George Herbert’s poetic paraphrase of Psalm 23 and has presented at conferences on the metrical psalms of poets such as Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Anne Locke.

While growing up, Dr. Sterrett attended a Methodist church with her family. She came to a greater understanding of God’s grace and a personal desire to follow Christ during her freshman year of college through participating in the Navigators campus ministry and going to Woodstock Congregational Church. She is currently a member of Red Stone Church in Johnson City.

Dr. Sterrett’s favorite part of serving at Milligan is teaching students and helping them grow intellectually and spiritually through class discussions, readings, and assignments.

Education:
BA, Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College
MCS, Christian Studies, Regent College
MA, English Literature, Boston College
PhD, English Literature, Boston College