Professor Leah Orr
IAS Open Programme
University of Louisiana
Leah Orr is the author of Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1730 (University of Virginia Press, 2017), and the forthcoming book, Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670-1750 (Oxford University Press, 2023).
She has published articles on women writers, book history, reception studies, and the novel in the long eighteenth century, and is the current holder of the Joseph P. Montiel and Board of Regents Professorship in English at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Her research examines the intersection between literature and history, particularly the ways that print and material contexts of book production influence what readers read and how they read it.