Biography
Laura Godfrey has been teaching in the English and Humanities Division at NIC since 2006 and has served as Assistant Division Chair since 2014. She regularly teaches classes in rhetoric and composition, American literature, business writing, and technical writing. She received her B.A. in English from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, her M.A. degree in American literature from the University of Idaho, and then her Ph.D. in American Literature from Washington State University in 2005.
Godfrey has published articles on a range of 19th, 20th and 21st century American authors including Mary Hallock Foote, Mourning Dove, Ernest Hemingway, and Cormac McCarthy. Her first book, Hemingway’s Geographies, appeared in 2016 and was followed by Hemingway in the Digital Age (2019). Her current book project is a creative nonfiction manuscript that blends literary analysis with amateur ornithology.
In her NIC classes, Godfrey concentrates on building students’ critical reading skills to help them shape their thinking and their writing: good writers are always good readers. She also does whatever she can to foster lively, engaging, and comfortable classroom environments for all her students. She has also taught 300 and 400 level courses on Literary Theory and Ernest Hemingway for the University of Idaho's Bachelor’s Degree program in English (available in Coeur d'Alene).
