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LeeAnn Hunter (Ph.D., University of Florida, 2010) is Professor of English at Washington State University. Her academic interests center on questions of work, wellness, and community. These interests have found expression in Victorian Studies in her research on professions for women, care economies, and self-help; in the health humanities in her work on mental health and decolonizing wellness; and in professional development in her efforts to prioritize mentoring, wellness, and connection.
Teaching
Dr. Hunter aspires to build a community around her students that will empower them to practice emotional discipline and courage in their academic and extracurricular endeavors. She promotes creativity and expression in all of her classrooms, integrating personal storytelling, narrative psychology, and literary analysis to help students define what core values move them to make a difference in their world. She draws upon this approach in every encounter she has with students to help them find the motivation they need to keep creating, writing, and revising.
Selected Publications
L. Hunter. “The Family Artist: Women’s Narratives of Self-Help and Self-Sacrifice in Victorian England.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 19.1 (2023), open-access digital publication. http://www.ncgsjournal.com/issue191/hunter.html
L. Hunter. “Honoring Others by Honoring Ourselves: Affective Labor and Mentoring Programs.” In Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers, ed. Lee Skallerup Bessette. University of Kansas P, 2022.
L. Hunter. “The Integrative English Major: Cultivating Growth, Transformation, and Possibility.” ADE Bulletin (Published by the Modern Language Association), no. 155, 2018, pp. 36-41.
P. Ericsson, L. Hunter, T. Macklin, E. Edwards. “Composition at Washington State University: Building a Multimodal Bricolage.” Composition Forum 33 (2016).
L. Hunter. “The Embodied Classroom: Deaf Gain in Multimodal Composition and Digital Studies.” Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 8 (2015).
L. Hunter. “Communities Built from Ruins: Social Economics in Victorian Novels of Bankruptcy.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 39.3 (2011): 137-152.