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Lara Vetter, Professor of English

Education

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

Research and Teaching Interests

  • modernism
  • modern and contemporary poetry and life writing
  • gender and sexuality

Selected Publications and Presentations

Books:

  • The Usual Star, the Moment, and Other Stories (by H.D.).  UP of Florida, 2025.  (edition)
  • 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:

  • “‘What is your reason / to this wild unrest?”: H.D.’s Hippolytus Temporizes and Ion,” Emerging Perspectives in H.D.’s Hellenic Modernity and the Future of New Modernist Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 25, 2024.
  • “Sexuality and the Inhuman in Storm Jameson’s In the Second Year,” Modern Language 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.
  • “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.

Courses Taught

  • Modernism, Sexuality, and Gender
  • Women and Literature
  • Trauma in Contemporary American Auto/biography
  • Modern and Contemporary Women’s Poetry
  • Modernist Short Story
  • Introduction to English Studies