Janet Casey

B.A., College of the Holy Cross
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Delaware

Office: Palamountain 315
Phone:(518) 580-5183
Email: jcasey@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Modern American Literature and Culture
• Ideologies of Class and Gender
• History and Theory of Leftist Literature
• Middlebrow Modernisms

Courses Taught:

• SP 100:  Human Dilemmas
• EN 105:  Class Matters
• EN 110:  Introduction to Literary Studies
• EN 227:  Introduction to African American Literature
• EN 323:  American Literary Realism
• EN 324:  American Fictions
• EN 325:  American Modernisms
• EN 363:  Literature, Class, and Culture
• AM 260:  American Bestsellers and Popular Culture
• AM 376:  Magazines and Modernity

• A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America (Oxford University Press, 2009).
• Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine (Cambridge UP, 1998).
• (Ed.) The Novel and the American Left:  Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction (Iowa UP, 2004).

• "Canon Issues and Class Contexts:  Teaching American Literature from a Market Perspective." Forthcoming in Radical Teacher.
• "Dis/Locating the Radical in The Grapes of Wrath." Dialogue:  The Grapes of Wrath, ed.  Michael Meyer.  Rodopi Press, 2009.
• "Reviving the Thirties:  The Case for Teaching Proletarian Fiction in the Undergraduate American Literature Classroom."  College English 70.3 (2008): 233-48.
• "Diversity, Discourse, and the Working-Class Student." Academe 91.4 (July-August 2005): 33-6.
• "Farm Women, Letters to the Editor, and the Limits of Autobiography Theory." Journal of Modern Literature 28.1 (2004): 89-106.
• "'This is YOUR Magazine': Domesticity, Agrarianism, and The Farmer's Wife." American Periodicals 14.2 (2004): 179-211.