She is a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded network Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind, with Ulrika Maude at the University of Bristol and Elizabeth Barry at the University of Warwick. Laura has written extensively on modernism, science, and the body, and on the playwright Samuel Beckett in particular. Her monograph Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2012. She is currently finishing a second book entitled Aphasic Modernism: Revolutions of the Word, which explores the relations between modernism, modernity, and early twentieth-century neuroscientific conceptions of language. Another project on Slow Modernism is also underway.