Lisa Kasmer, Associate Professor of English, specializes in gender and sexuality studies and trauma studies in Romanticism and Victorian culture. Her research focuses on the construction of sociopolitical narratives and subjectivity in nineteenth-century literature through genre and form. Her monograph Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 examines women’s political engagement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the shifting forms of historiography. Her edited collection Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores intersections of nationalism and trauma in Romantic and Victorian literature and cultural artifacts. Her current book project “Traumatic Failure in Romanticism” examines the way in which Romantic aesthetics shape narratives concerning oppression and social inequity. Some of her recent courses are Traumatic Tales: British Romantic Literature and Nationhood, Queer Victorians, Making Gender through the Eighteenth-Century Novel, and The Gothic.
Lisa Kasmer
Associate Professor, English
Department Chair, English
- About
- Scholarly and creative works
Degrees
- Ph.D. in English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
- M.A. in English, University of Chicago, 1985
- B.A. in English, University of Connecticut, 1983
Affiliated Departments
English, Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies (CGRAS), Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
Scholarly and creative works
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“Lenora Sansay’s Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Frames of Personhood”
Published in European Romantic Review2024 -
“National Trauma and Romantic Illusions in Percy Shelley’s The Cenci”
Published in HumanitiesMay2019Vol. 94Issue #8.2 -
[Reprint] “Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: A Symptomatic Reading.” Literature and Psychology 36.3 (1990): 1-15.
Cengage Learning, Gale Project -
The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820
Chapter: “Cassandra Cooke’s Battleridge and Agnes Musgrave’s Cicely: Historiographical Insurrection”Published by Cambridge UP2019 -
“The Political Critique of Anne Yearsley’s Earl Goodwin.” In Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2012. [Reprint]
Gale Research Co. -
Traumatic Tales: National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Chapter: IntroductionPublished by Routledge2017 -
Traumatic Tales: National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Chapter: “Mansfield Park and National Belonging”Published by Routledge2017 -
Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
2017New York and London -
“Mapping the Nation”
Early Modernists Unite The Roots of Everything TalkClark University2016 -
The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789
Chapter: “Women Critics”Published by Wiley-Blackwell2015 -
“Facilitating Campus Leadership for Integrative Liberal Learning”
Published in Peer Review2014Vol. Fall/2014, Winter/2015 -
Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Mansfield Park
Chapter: “That was now the home’: Nationalism and Imperialism in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park”Published by Modern Language Association2014 -
Mary Wollstonecraft: Reflections and Interpretations
Chapter: “The Regendering of History: Mary Wollstonecraft and the French Revolution”Published by Napoca Star2014 -
“Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice at 200″
Friends of Goddard Library LectureClark UniversityNovember2013 -
“‘Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil’: The Pleasures and Dangers of Nature in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice”
Metro-New York Region of the Jane Austen Society of North American PlenaryNY, New YorkOctober2013 -
Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830
2012Madison, NJ