Education
- M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Louisiana State University, August 2021
- B.A. in American Studies, Temple University, January 2005
Courses Taught
- Rhetoric and Communication
- New Media and Journalism
- Choose Your Own Adventure; Exploring Interactive Fiction
- So, What Had Happened Was: Intro to Creative NonFiction
- Zine Scene: Introduction to Zine Making
- Reading the Horror Film
- Transdisciplinary Practicum
- Capstone I and II
Teaching Experience
- Interim Director and Assistant Professor, Communication and Design, Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan (Current)
- Post-Doctoral Instructor, English Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (2021 – 2022)
- Graduate Teaching Instructor, English Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (2018 – 2021)
- Acting Director (2014-2016) and Assistant Director, Centre for Excellence in Journalism, Institute for Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan (2014-2018)
Biography
Christie Marie Lauder is the Interim Program Director and Assistant Professor of the Communications and Design department at Habib University, where she teaches creative writing, film theory, and journalism. Formerly, Lauder was the Director of the Centre for Excellence in Journalism at the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi.
With a MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Temple University, Lauder combines her passion for American Popular Culture with her literary pursuits, often exploring the intersections of gender, popular culture, and technology in her writing. Her work has appeared in Persephone Magazine, Peauxdunque Review, Jezebel, and Refinery 29, among other outlets.
Lauder was a board member of The Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction, dedicated to fostering Pakistani speculative fiction, and a member of Desi Writer’s Lounge, through which she conducted numerous writing workshops throughout Karachi. In previous incarnations, Lauder worked in the comics industry, freelanced as a culture journalist, and even did a stint in engineering project management. She knows a lot about horror films and has a lot of cats.
Publications
- Muir, Robyn, Beatrice Frasl, Christie Marie Lauder, and Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers. Evil Women: Representations within Literature, Culture and Film. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 25 Apr. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004499508Web.
- “Dead Girl Summer,” Peauxdunque Review Issue 5, 2021
- “How Do We Solve a Problem like Laurie? Modern Slasher Films and Final (Older) Women,” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, April 2020
- “In-Between the Bayou and the Sunken Place: Body Possession and the Gothic in Get Out and the Skeleton Key,” Mardi Gras Conference, March 2020
