Cassandra Laity

American author and researcher

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

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Laity completed her PhD at the University of Michigan.

## Career

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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, and the 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 HMS Beagle's resident geologist and global explorer on the work of the poets Algernon Charles 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 the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

## References

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ Helen Tookey (2003). Anaïs Nin, Fictionality and Femininity: Playing a Thousand Roles. Clarendon Press. pp. 111–. ISBN 978-0-19-924983-1.
3. ^ "Modernist studies journal wins award". Stanford Report, Feb. 2, 2004
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ 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.
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.
7. ^ Lisa Rado (2000). The Modern Androgyne Imagination: A Failed Sublime. University of Virginia Press. pp. 195–. ISBN 978-0-8139-1980-5.
8. ^ Christine Coffman (12 December 2006). Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 242–. ISBN 978-0-8195-6819-9.
9. ^ Vincent Sherry (27 October 2014). Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence. Cambridge University Press. pp. 294–. ISBN 978-1-107-07932-8.
10. ^ David E. Chinitz (26 September 2011). A Companion to T. S. Eliot. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 494–. ISBN 978-1-4443-5604-5.
11. ^ "Gender, Sexuality, and Desire in T. S. Eliot (review)" Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Modernism/modernity Volume 11, Number 3, September 2004

## External links

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