Department of English

Lisa Kasmer  

Lisa Kasmer

Assistant Professor of English

Department of English
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477

office phone: 508-793-7136
email: lkasmer@clarku.edu

 


B.A., University of Connecticut, 1983;
M.A., University of Chicago, 1985;
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2002

Professor Kasmer is on sabbatical AY 2007-08.

Brief Biography

Professor Kasmer's teaching and research interests center on the cultural and political construction of gender, sexuality, and race within eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. She is especially interested in examining the intersections among these cultural and political positions and the narrative and generic forms in British literature.

Currently, she is shaping the research from her dissertation into a book on nineteenth-century women's politcal and literary engagement with history through their historical fiction writing, which provides an alternate frame to view history and women's writing. She has published articles in relation to this project, as well as on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper."

Professor Kasmer teaches the survey course Major British Writers II and seminars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature on a variety of topical subjects, for example: "Making Sex": Gender and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Race and Revolution in British Romanticism; Jane Austen in Hollywood; and The Terror of Gothic Fiction.

Current Research and Teaching