Lara
Vetter , Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Education
• Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 2003
• M.A. Georgia State University, 1994
• B.A. Georgia State University, 1991
Areas of Interest
• American Literature & Culture, Poetry.
• Textual Theory, Digital Studies
• Book in progress, titled "Sparks and Scattered Light": Religio-Scientific Discourse and Modernist Bodies, examines religio-scientific discourse in early modernist literature within the context of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century crisis surrounding the body.
• A second book in progress, titled Approaches to Teaching H.D.’s Poetry and Prose, offers resources to secondary and post-secondary instructors of work by the American modernist "H.D." (MLA Press).
• A third book in progress, titled Emily Dickinson's Correspondences, is a selected electronic scholarly edition of Dickinson's poetry and letters (University of Virginia Press).
Grants
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation and Access Grant, 2005-2006.
Publications and Presentations
Articles and Book Chapters:
• "Theories of Spiritual Evolution, Christian Science, and the 'Cosmopolitan Jew': Mina Loy and American Identity." Forthcoming, Journal of Modern Literature (January 2008).
• "Editing Dickinson in an Electronic Environment." Forthcoming, Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson. Blackwell Press, 2007. 437-452.
• "Representing 'a sort of composite person': Autobiography, Sexuality, and Collaborative Authorship in H.D.'s Prose and Scrapbook." Genre 36.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2003): 107-129.
• "Witnessing Dickinson's Witnesses" (with Jarom McDonald). Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 151-165.
Recent Presentations:
• "Reading and Writing 'A sort of clairvoyant material plane': Performance and Spirituality in H.D.’s Prose," Modernist Studies Association, Long Beach, CA, November 3, 2007.
• "'The realism of white lightning': Electromagnetism and Modernist Aesthetics in H.D.'s Nights," Modernist Studies Association, Tulsa, OK, October 22, 2006.
Courses Taught
• English 3100 Approaches to Literature
• English 3300 American Literature Survey
• English 4050/5050 Modern American Poetry
• English 4142 Modern American Literature
• English 6143 Seminar in American Modernism
Professional Appointments
Faculty Appointment
• Assistant Professor, UNC-Charlotte, 2005-present
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2004-2005
External Appointment
• Co-Chair, H.D. International Society, 2004-present
Award
• Carl Bode Prize for Best Dissertation in American Literature, University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.
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