Associate Professor of English

• Office: Sitterly House 207
• Campus Extension:  3141
• Email:  claity@drew.edu

Arrived at Drew: 1991. 

Areas of Specialization:  Anglo-American Modernisms, Modern Poetry, Feminist Criticism/Theory, Critical Theory, Late-Victorian Poetry and Fiction.

Courses taught at Drew:  CLA:  Introduction to Literary Analysis; Western Literature; Victorian Literature; Gender and Literary Modernism; GRADUATE: Modernisms: British and American 20th Century Writers; Romanticism, Literary theory.

Awards:   NEH Research Fellowship (1989-1990),  Visiting Fellowship, Yale University, Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library (1987), Three-Year Mellon Assistant Professorship, Vanderbilt University (1987-1990).

Co-Curricular activities: On the advisory board of  the online journal, Cerebration,

Recent Publications:   H.D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence, Cambridge University Press (1996);  H.D., Paint it Today, editor and introduction, "Lesbian Romanticism: H.D.'s Fictional Representations of Frances Gregg and Bryher," xvii-xliii, New York University Press (1992)

Work-in-progress Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T.S. Eliot, co-edited with Nancy Gish and with introduction by Cassandra Laity, "T.S. Eliot, Gender and Modernity," Cambridge University Press (anticipated publication: June, 2004); a book, T.S. Eliot, Embodied Modernity and British Decadence; and a collection, Gender and World War I: Critical Essays and Selections from World War I Writers, co-edited with Jane Marcus and with introduction by Jane Marcus (based on a special issue on Gender and WWI of Modernism/Modernity 9:3, 2002), prospective publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Points of interest:  Co-Editor, Modernism/Modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press (2000-);  Co-Founder, Vice President of Modernist Studies Association (1999-2001); organizer of  MSA conferences: "New Modernisms" (1999, Penn. State University), "New Modernisms 2" (2000, University of Pennsylvania), and "MSA 3" (2001, Rice University); Member, MLA Delegate Assembly (1999-2001); President, H.D. International Society (1998-2000);  Swarthmore Honors Program: Outside Examiner in modern poetry (1999, 1998, 1992 and 1991).