Laura Dassow Walls (born Laura Dassow in Ketchikan, Alaska) is an American professor emerita of English at the University of Notre Dame.
[1] Walls has researched the intersections of literature and science in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Alexander von Humboldt and related authors.
[6] Walls received the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize for her book, The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America, on January 7, 2011, at the MLA’s annual convention.
[2] Professor Walls joined the Notre Dame faculty in fall 2011 as the William P. and Hazel B.
She succeeds Gerald Bruns, who retired from Notre Dame in 2008 and inaugurated the William P. and Hazel B.