Cassandra Laity Explained

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]}

Laity has written many articles, which have been published in the journals Modern Drama, Modernism/Modernity, ELH, Victorian Poetry and Feminist Studies. She is author or editor of the books H.D.'s Paint it Today (NYU 1992),^[7] H.D. and the Victorian Fin-de-Siecle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence (CUP 1996; pbk 2009),^{[8] [9]} and Gender, Desire and Sexuality in T.S. Eliot, with Nancy Gish (CUP 2004; pbk 2007).^{[10] [11]}

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.

External links

• Google Scholar citations

Notes and References

1. Book: Gabrielle McIntire. Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. 7 February 2008. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-139-46850-3. 232–.
2. Book: Helen Tookey. Anaïs Nin, Fictionality and Femininity: Playing a Thousand Roles. 2003. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-924983-1. 111–.
3. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2004/february4/modernism-24.html "Modernist studies journal wins award"
4. Book: Clare L. Taylor. Women, Writing, and Fetishism, 1890–1950: Female Cross-gendering. 1 January 2003. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-924410-2. 124–.
5. Book: Dr David M Earle. Re-Covering Modernism: Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice of Form. 28 June 2015. Ashgate Publishing Limited. 978-1-4724-7182-6. 188–.
6. Book: Diana Holmes. Carrie Tarr. A Belle Epoque?: Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914. 15 January 2006. Berghahn Books. 978-0-85745-701-1. 228–.
7. Book: Lisa Rado. The Modern Androgyne Imagination: A Failed Sublime. 2000. University of Virginia Press. 978-0-8139-1980-5. 195–.
8. Book: Christine Coffman. Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film. 12 December 2006. Wesleyan University Press. 978-0-8195-6819-9. 242–.
9. Book: Vincent Sherry. Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence. 27 October 2014. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-07932-8. 294–.
10. Book: David E. Chinitz. A Companion to T. S. Eliot. 26 September 2011. John Wiley & Sons. 978-1-4443-5604-5. 494–.
11. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mod/summary/v011/11.3duplessis.html "Gender, Sexuality, and Desire in T. S. Eliot (review)"