Lisa Kasmer

Associate Professor, English
Department Chair, English

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.

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

  • Article in Refereed Journal

    “Lenora Sansay’s Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Frames of Personhood”

    Published in European Romantic Review
    2024
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    “National Trauma and Romantic Illusions in Percy Shelley’s The Cenci

    Published in Humanities
    May
    2019
    Vol. 94
    Issue #8.2
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Other Scholarly or Creative Work

    [Reprint] “Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: A Symptomatic Reading.” Literature and Psychology 36.3 (1990): 1-15.

    Cengage Learning, Gale Project
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Chapters In Books

    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 UP
    2019
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Other Scholarly or Creative Work

    “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.
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Chapters In Books

    Traumatic Tales: National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
    Chapter: Introduction

    Published by Routledge
    2017
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Chapters In Books

    Traumatic Tales: National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
    Chapter: “Mansfield Park and National Belonging”

    Published by Routledge
    2017
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Book

    Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

    2017
    New York and London
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Presentations

    “Mapping the Nation”

    Early Modernists Unite The Roots of Everything Talk
    Clark University
    2016
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Chapters In Books

    The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789
    Chapter: “Women Critics”

    Published by Wiley-Blackwell
    2015
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    “Facilitating Campus Leadership for Integrative Liberal Learning”

    Published in Peer Review
    2014
    Vol. Fall/2014, Winter/2015
    Lisa Kasmer, Nancy Budwig, Sarah Michaels
  • Chapters In Books

    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 Association
    2014
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Chapters In Books

    Mary Wollstonecraft: Reflections and Interpretations
    Chapter: “The Regendering of History: Mary Wollstonecraft and the French Revolution”

    Published by Napoca Star
    2014
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Presentations

    “Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice at 200″

    Friends of Goddard Library Lecture
    Clark University
    November
    2013
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Presentations

    “‘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 Plenary
    NY, New York
    October
    2013
    Lisa Kasmer
  • Book

    Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830

    2012
    Madison, NJ
    Lisa Kasmer