Dr. Page Laws
Dr. Page Laws is Emerita Professor of English and was founding Dean of the Robert C. Nusbaum Honors College at Norfolk State University. She and the late Robert C. “Bob” Nusbaum, a well-known attorney and community leader, worked tirelessly from 1993 until 2017 to transform the NSU Honors Program into the Honors College, which bears his name.
Laws received her BA from Wellesley College and her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She currently serves as theater and opera corresponding critic for The Virginian-Pilot newspaper and occasionally reviews for Cineaste film magazine.
She is author and/or editor of scholarly books and articles in her field including “Bong Joon Ho Meets Richard Wright? Spatialized Poverty in The Host and Parasite or ‘The Koreans Who Lived Underground’” in The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor, Eds. by Geoffroy de Laforcade, Daniel Stein, and Cathy C. Waegner. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022).
Dr. Laws’ academic awards include service as a Fulbright-Karl Franzens University Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies, Spring 2002, and service as a Fulbright Scholar (German Studies Seminar) in 1993. She likewise participated in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in France, 1999, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar in South Africa in 1996. She was a Critic Fellow at the National Critics Institute, Eugene O'Neill Center, in 1997, and she twice taught as a Bollenbeck Fellow at the University of Siegen, helping to inaugurate the NSU partnership with that German university.