The Citadel
Biographical Sketch: Lauren Rule Maxwell is a Professor of English at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and author of _Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas_, published in the Purdue University Press Comparative Cultural Studies Series. She teaches American and contemporary literature as well as advanced composition, professional writing, and business communications. Because of her commitment to empowerment through writing, Dr. Maxwell serves as director of the Lowcountry Writing Project, a local site of the National Writing Project that fosters professional development of Charleston-area educators and helps them use writing more effectively in their classrooms. She is the current Vice President of the Margaret Atwood Society and will be editing the MLA's upcoming volume on approaches to teaching the works of Margaret Atwood. Her next book project is "Facing the Civil War: Contemporary Poems about Civil War Monuments."