Associate Professor
English & World Languages
DeBartolo Hall 240
phone: (330) 941-3420
Ph D, English
University at Albany, SUNY
Dissertation/Thesis Title — "Theologies of Pain in American Puritanism: The Human Body and Spiritual Conversion from Anne Bradstreet to Jonathan Edwards"
MA, English
University of Maine
BA, English
University of Maine
Society of Early Americanists
Society of Early Americanists Scholar of the Month
"Theologies of Pain: Literary Bodies and Afflicted forms in Puritan New England"
L. Hardy
Bloomsbury Academic"Review of A Cotton Mather Reader, by Reiner Smolinski and Kenneth P. Minkema"
L. Hardy
American Literary History, Oxford University Press, volume 35, issue 3, p. 3
"Jonathan Edwards and the Aesthetics of Pain"
L. Hardy
, volume Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment: Controversy, Experience & Thought"The Practice of Conveying and Suffering the Small-pox’: Inoculation as a Means of Spiritual Conversion in Cotton Mather’s Angel of Bethesda"
L. Hardy
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Johns Hopkins University Press, volume 44, p. 61-80
"No Cure: Anne Bradstreet’s Frenzied Brain"
L. Hardy
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Taylor & Francis, volume 43, issue 3, p. 318-331