Lara Vetter

Lara Vetter
Professor of English
Associate Chair
Director of Graduate Studies

Education

• Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, 2003.
• M.A. and B.A., Georgia State University, 1994 and 1991.

Research Interests

• Modernism and Contemporary Literature
• Gender and Sexuality Studies

Selected Publications and Presentations

Books:

• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).  Reaktion Press, 2023.  (biography)
• A Curious Peril: H.D.’s Late Modernist Prose. UP of Florida, 2017. (monograph)
• By Avon River (by H.D.). UP of Florida, 2014. (edition)
• Approaches to Teaching H.D.’s Poetry and Prose (with Annette Debo). Modern Language Association Press, 2011. (collection)
• Modernist Writings and Religio-Scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010.  (monograph)
• Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences (with Martha Nell Smith).  U of Virginia P, 2008. (edition)

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

• “H.D., Modernist Fiction, and a Queer Quotidian.”  Feminist Modernist Studies 5.2 (2022): 143-160.
• “On Love and the Canon: H.D., Robert Duncan, and ‘Venice-Venus.’”  Sillages Critiques 29 (2020).  <http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/9912>
• “The Violence of Translingual Identity in Kazim Ali’s Bright Felon and Julia Alvarez’s The Other Side/El otro lado.” MELUS 44.1 (2019): 110-131.
• “Journeys without Maps: Literature and Spiritual Experience.” Futility and Anarchy?: British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940, eds. Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill.  Cambridge UP, 2018.  68-84.
• Afterword.  A Piercing Darkness: Spirituality in Modernist Women’s Writing, eds. Andrew Radford, Elizabeth Anderson, and Heather Walton.  Palgrave P, 2016. 237-246.
• “H.D., India, and Gendered Narratives of Imperialism.” Review of English Studies 67.278 (2016): 146-164.
• “Modernism and Historical Fiction: The Case of H.D.” A History of the Modernist Novel, ed.
  Gregory Castle. Cambridge UP, 2015. 369-385.
• “Theories of Spiritual Evolution, Christian Science, and the ‘Cosmopolitan Jew’: Mina Loy and American Identity.”  Journal of Modern Literature 31.1 (2007): 47-63.
• “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.

Selected Recent Presentations:

• “Sexuality and the Inhuman in Storm Jameson’s In the Second Year,” Modern Languages Association, New York, NY, January 6, 2018.
• “Late Modernism and the Dystopian Turn,” Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, CA, November 19, 2016.
• “Outside the Margins of Modernism: Spirituality and Women Writers,” Modernist Studies Association, Boston, MA, November 21, 2015.
• “Espionage and Psychoanalysis in H.D.’s Late Prose,” H.D. and Feminist Poetics, Bethlehem, PA, September 18, 2015.
• “H.D., World War II, and Forms of Mysticism” (keynote), Women Modernists and Spirituality, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, May 23, 2014.
• “‘L’autre’ in H.D.’s Historical Fiction,” H.D. and Modernity, Paris, France, December 7, 2013.
• “H.D.’s The Sword Went Out to Sea and the Question of Genre.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 6, 2012.

Courses Taught:

• Modernism, Sexuality, and Gender
• Contemporary American Life Writing
• Introduction to English Studies