Laura Gruber Godfrey
Laura Gruber Godfrey
Writing Specialist
Vandal Gateway Program
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1105
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1105
Laura Godfrey is an Associate Professor of English at North Idaho College and serves as a Writing Specialist for University of Idaho students in the Vandal Gateway Program. She has many years of experience teaching both writing and literature classes for NIC and UI, and she has published multiple academic and personal essays in journals such as Western American Literature, The Hemingway Review, and Arizona Quarterly and in edited collections including Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism and Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World. Her first book, Hemingway's Geographies (Palgrave), appeared in 2016, and her edited collection, Hemingway in the Digital Age (Kent State UP), was published in 2019. Her most recent book is A Year of Real and Literary Birds (Routledge, 2025).
- B.A., English, Emory University
- M.A., English, University of Idaho
- Ph.D., American Literature, Washington State University
Courses
- English 101, English 102 (Writing and Rhetoric)
- English 175 (Literature and Ideas)
- English 317 (Technical Writing)
- English 310 (Literary Theory)
- English 462 (Deep Maps: Spaces and Places in American Fiction)
- English 482 (Major Authors: Hemingway)
- English 505 (Reading Hemingway, Interpreting Literature)
- Open Educational Resource Trailblazer Award, North Idaho College, 2023
- North Idaho College Sabbatical Award, 2018
- North Idaho College Faculty Achievement Award, 2017
- Hemingway
- Cultural geography
- deep maps
- and literature
- Philosophies of space and place
- Environmental humanities
- Geospatial technologies
- Student learning outcomes assessment
Books
- A Year of Real and Literary Birds. (Routledge, 2025). (Included in the Routledge Studies in World Literature and the Environment series, edited by Scott Slovic and Swarnalatha Rangarajan). https://www.routledge.com/A-Year-of-Real-and-Literary-Birds/Godfrey/p/book/9781032873640?srsltid=AfmBOooeqdn4lNz90T6FGIWfrFV80BemsNpZTUKYAdXf0LnqRmrbdCnc
- Hemingway in the Digital Age: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding. Kent State University Press, 2019. https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2019/hemingway-in-the-digital-age/
- Hemingway’s Geographies: Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. (Included in the Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies series, edited by Robert Tally, Jr.). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-58175-4
Recent articles and book chapters
- “The Conflicted Frontier of Hemingway’s Idaho.” Good Country: Ernest Hemingway and the American West. Ed. Ross Tangedal and Larry Grimes. (forthcoming, University of Nevada Press, 2025).
- “ʻHe did not need to get his map out’: Spatial Insularity in Hemingway’s Early Nick Adams Stories.” (The Hemingway Review, Fall 2024)
- “Winter Migrations.” The 2022 Limberlost Review. Rick and Mary Ardinger, Eds.
- “Digital Hemingway.” In The New Hemingway. Eds. Kirk Curnutt and Suzanne del Gizzo. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- “‘On Familiar Ground’: Intimate Geographies and Assumptions of Place in Hemingway’s Nick Adams Stories.” Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World. Eds. Kevin Maier and Mark Ott. Kent State University Press. 2018.