DR. LARUE SLOAN is the holder of the L.M. McKneely Professorship in the English Literature.

Dr. Sloan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Shakespeare and Scientific Writing, the Junior Seminar (Poetry/ Drama), World Literature, and honors courses in English and American literature. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from Texas Tech University and her MA and BA degrees from East Texas State University, now Texas A&M at Commerce.

Dr. Sloan’s primary research interests are Shakespeare and Women’s Studies. Her publications include “’Caparisoned like the horse’: Tongue and Tail in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew,” published in Early Modern Literary Studies, reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism, and winner of the 2005 Chadwyck-Healey Literature Online Prize; “’Trumpeting’ and ‘seeled eyes’: A Semiotics of [Eye]conography in Shakespeare’s Othello” in Othello: New Critical Essays (Routledge); and “’I’ll watch him tame and talk him out of patience’: The Curtain Lecture in Shakespeare’s Othello,” forthcoming in Oral Traditions and Gender in English Literary Texts, 1550-1700 (Ashgate).

Dr. Sloan is currently writing on gender, sexuality, and identity as themes in The Taming of the Shrew for General Themes in Literature (Facts on File, 2009) and researching empirical medicine and Early Modern analogues of mummers’ plays in Shakespeare’s "All’s Well That Ends Well".

The L.M. McKneely Professorship in the English Literature endowment was established to encourage and reward excellence in teaching, learning and research at ULM.