Laura Richardson, Ph.D., is a Lecturer and Director of the FWIS 100 program with Rice University’s Program in Writing and Communication. Her areas of academic expertise include literary modernism (1900-1945), women’s and gender studies, film, and science fiction. Her short fiction was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been published in The Pinch, Southern Indiana Review, and Peatsmoke. She is a faculty associate and former RA of Lovett College at Rice.