Laura Bates

Laura Bates is an English professor at Indiana State University, where she has taught courses on Shakespeare for the past 15 years to students on campus and in prison. She enjoys teaching a wide range of courses at Indiana State University, from Children's Literature to World Literature, Shakespeare, and Crime and Punishment. With a PhD (University of Chicago, 1998) in Comparative Literature, her academic training involved classic world literature alongside contemporary texts and theory. Her work has been featured in national media, including MSNBC's Lock Up. Laura lives in Indiana.