Cassandra Laity
Cassandra Laity is an author and researcher in the field of modernism.[1][2] In 2015 she is a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Early life and education
Laity completed her PhD at the University of Michigan.
Career
In 1985 Laity was an assistant professor of English at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She was a professor at Drew University (1992–2013) and has held appointments at the University of Montreal, Vanderbilt University, University of Oregon-Eugene. Laity helped found the Modernist Studies Association and served as an editor of its journal Modernism/modernity for ten years (2000–2010).[3] Laity writes, lectures and leads discussions on the themes of feminism and decadence in modernist literature and poetry.[4][5][6] In 2015 Laity's research centers around the impact of Darwin's early writings as the Beagle's resident geologist and global explorer on the work of the poets A.C. Swinburne, Walter Pater, H.D. and Elizabeth Bishop. She is in the process of writing a book on this topic. She has been awarded fellowships by the Mellon Foundation, NEH, and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
References
- ↑ Gabrielle McIntire (7 February 2008). Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Cambridge University Press. pp. 232–. ISBN 978-1-139-46850-3.
- ↑ Helen Tookey (2003). Anaïs Nin, Fictionality and Femininity: Playing a Thousand Roles. Clarendon Press. pp. 111–. ISBN 978-0-19-924983-1.
- ↑ "Modernist studies journal wins award". Stanford Report, Feb. 2, 2004
- ↑ Clare L. Taylor (1 January 2003). Women, Writing, and Fetishism, 1890–1950: Female Cross-gendering. Clarendon Press. pp. 124–. ISBN 978-0-19-924410-2.
- ↑ Dr David M Earle (28 June 2015). Re-Covering Modernism: Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice of Form. Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 188–. ISBN 978-1-4724-7182-6.
- ↑ Diana Holmes; Carrie Tarr (15 January 2006). A Belle Epoque?: Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914. Berghahn Books. pp. 228–. ISBN 978-0-85745-701-1.