Ms. Lara Gose graduated from James Madison University with bachelor degrees in English and Russian and then completed a master’s degree in Russian literature at The University of Virginia, writing a thesis on a Jungian analysis of Nikolai Gogol’s early short stories. She moved to Moscow, Russia, where she taught English at Škola-gimnazija No. 67. Upon returning to the U.S., she entered graduate school to study comparative literature at Indiana University, completing the master’s degree, with a thesis on images of women in Russian Socialist Realist art, and the Ph.D. comprehensive exams. She has taught Russian language, literature and culture to American high school students; American literature and culture (and “the American variant of the English language”) to Russian high school students; English composition and special topics and characters in comparative literature to university students; and college writing, technical writing and children’s literature to community college students. She started teaching for APU in December 2010. Her areas of academic interest include Modernism, women’s autobiographical writing, and war literature as well as Jungian analysis and narrative theory. She also enjoys mysteries and science fiction and fantasy, both as a reader and a writer. She lives in Indiana with her husband, two dogs, and two cats.