Rate My Professor Lara Nicole Pur

At UNC Chapel Hill, Pur has taken on significant teaching and administrative roles. Since August 2023, she has served as a Teaching Fellow, developing policies and syllabi, teaching rhetoric across natural science, social science, and humanities, and providing office hours support. She is currently the Administrative and Research Assistant for the Jane Austen’s Desk Project (January 2024-present), transcribing data, tracking reviews, and compiling marketing lists. Previously, she was DLC Lab Media Manager (August 2022-August 2023), leading a department headshot project, managing undergraduate workers, and organizing media resources. Pur has proctored exams for students with accommodations and teaches courses such as ENGL 105 English Composition and Rhetoric. Her research specializes in woman-written sensation novels of 19th-century Britain, feminist commentary and resistance within sensation novels, the 'girl of the period,' women’s joy and pleasure, and bodily autonomy. Broader interests encompass British Literature from 1789 to 1900, Comparative Literature, Feminist Historiography, The Novel, and Women Writers. She has received the Dahl Family Fellowship (2022-2027), recognition for exceptional performance in Introductory Ancient Greek from the University of Illinois Classics Department (2020), was a finalist for the University of Illinois Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards (2019), appeared on the Dean’s List (2017-2020), and was a University of Colorado Honors Scholar (2016-2017). Pur possesses reading proficiency in Spanish, Ancient Greek, and French.