{"id":69,"date":"2022-06-22T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/?post_type=person&#038;p=69"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:06:28","slug":"dr-lauren-rule-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/faculty-staff\/dr-lauren-rule-maxwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Lauren Rule Maxwell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dr-lauren-rule-maxwell\">Dr. Lauren Rule Maxwell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-professor-and-nbsp-director-of-the-citadel-distinguished-scholars-program\">Professor and&nbsp;Director of The Citadel Distinguished Scholars Program,<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lauren Rule Maxwell specializes in contemporary literature from the Americas. A native of Richmond, Virginia, she graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in English and a minor in Biology. After writing professionally for healthcare organizations in Washington, D.C., she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Emory University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Maxwell joined The Citadel faculty in 2008. She teaches classes in American and contemporary literature as well as writing courses such as Professional Communications and Advanced Composition. Because of her commitment to writing, she is involved with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/english\/lowcountry-writing-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lowcountry Writing Project<\/a>, which she directed between Fall 2017 and Spring 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, Dr. Maxwell received The Citadel Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, and Service. She served as the Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching English Program from 2012 to 2014, creating assessments to re-secure accreditation for the program, and in 2017 designed the Professional Communications curriculum that most students now take under The Citadel\u2019s new General Education Program. She is the recipient of the inaugural (2023) School of Humanities and Social Sciences Emery-Mathis Excellence in Teaching Award and is currently the Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/distinguished-scholars\/\">Distinguished Scholars Program<\/a> at The Citadel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Maxwell\u2019s monograph <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctt6wq40b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas<\/a><\/em> was published in the Purdue University Press Comparative Cultural Studies series. She has authored articles in journals including <em>Modern Fiction Studies<\/em>, <em>The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review<\/em>, <em>Margaret Atwood Studies<\/em>, and the <em>European Journal of American Studies<\/em>. She has chapters in Cambridge University Press\u2019s <em>F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context<\/em> and <em>A History of Virginia Literature<\/em> as well as in <em>Teaching Hemingway and Modernism<\/em> and <em>Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From January 2021 to January 2024, Dr. Maxwell served as the President of the Margaret Atwood Society, an international organization of scholars, teachers, and students that promotes scholarly exchange about Atwood\u2019s works. She\u00a0edited\u00a0<em>Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood<\/em>\u00a0(2025) for the MLA Press and is writing a book on poetry about Civil War monuments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Degrees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong>&nbsp;English (Emory University)<br><strong>M.A.<\/strong>&nbsp;English (Emory University)<br><strong>B.A.<\/strong>&nbsp;English (Wake Forest University)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lauren Rule Maxwell Professor and&nbsp;Director of The Citadel Distinguished Scholars Program, Lauren Rule Maxwell specializes in contemporary literature from the Americas. A native of Richmond, Virginia, she graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in English and a minor in Biology. 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