Lisa Kasmer
Associate Professor, English
Scholarly Interests
Gender and Sexuality Studies, Trauma Studies, Romanticism, Victorian Culture
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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 Department(s)
- English Department
- Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies (CGRAS)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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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
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2019
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"National Trauma and Romantic Illusions in Percy Shelley’s The Cenci"
Published in Humanities
May
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2019
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Vol. 94
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Issue #8.2
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Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
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2017
Routledge
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“Mapping the Nation”
Early Modernists Unite The Roots of Everything Talk
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Clark University
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2016
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The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789
Chapter: "Women Critics"Published by Wiley-Blackwell
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2015
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Mary Wollstonecraft: Reflections and Interpretations
Chapter: "The Regendering of History: Mary Wollstonecraft and the French Revolution"Published by Napoca Star
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2014
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Published by Modern Language Association
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2014
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"Facilitating Campus Leadership for Integrative Liberal Learning"
Published in Peer Review
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2014
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Vol. Fall/2014, Winter/2015
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"Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice at 200"
Friends of Goddard Library Lecture
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Clark University
November
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2013
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"'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
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NY, New York
October
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2013
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Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830
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2012
Fairleigh Dickinson UP
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Awards & Grants
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Higgins Major Grant
Higgins School of Humanities
Aug. 3, 2019 - Aug. 3, 2019
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Queer Victorians seminar, Summer Program
Advanced Studies in England
2023
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Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries
NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
2012
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Henry J. Leir Luxembourg Award
Clark University
2012
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Research Fellowship
Chawton House Library, UK
2009
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Research Fellowship
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.
2009
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Faculty Development Grant
Clark University
2015
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Davis Educational Fund Grant
Clark University
2012
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