| Laura Penny | |
| Birth Place: | Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Occupation: | author |
| Period: | 2000s–present |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Notableworks: | Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit, More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right |
Laura Penny (born 1975) is a Canadian academic and the author of the bestselling Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit, a study of the phenomenon of bullshit and its role in modern society.[1]
Penny holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo (now renamed Buffalo State College).[2]
From 2002 to 2006, she taught at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she was a Senior Fellow in the Foundation Year Programme. She then went on to teach at Halifax's Mount Saint Vincent University and Saint Mary's University[3] while still giving occasional lectures at King's College.[4] Penny published More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right, a consideration of anti-intellectualism and a defence of the arts and humanities in 2010.[5] Penny was featured on 60 Minutes with Princeton professor Harry Frankfurt, author of the similarly themed treatise, On Bullshit.[6] Penny is an occasional contributor to The Globe and Mail. She has also written for the National Post, Saturday Night, Chatelaine, and Toronto Life (for which she is also a contributing editor)., she has returned to King's, teaching courses in the Contemporary Studies & Early Modern Studies programs.