Leah Blatt Glasser Explained
| Leah Blatt Glasser |
| Occupation: | Professor |
| Nationality: | American |
| Genre: | American literature |
| Notableworks: | In a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
Leah Blatt Glasser is an American literary critic and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman scholar at Mount Holyoke College.[1] She was Dean of First-Year Studies and is currently a lecturer in English at Mount Holyoke College. Her former student (the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks) would later credit Glasser for her success.[2]
Background
Glasser received her B.A. degree in 1972, her M.A. in 1973 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1982. She has taught at Mount Holyoke College since year 1980 and is a contributing editor to the Heath Anthology of American Fiction.
Publications
- A Landscape of One's Own: Nature-Writing and Women's Autobiography (forthcoming)
- In a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996).[3]
- "She Is the One You Call Sister: Discovering Mary E. Wilkins Freeman", in Between Women, ed. Ascher, DeSalvo, and Ruddick (Routledge Press, 1994).
- Contributing Editor to The Heath Anthology of American Literature and Teaching Guidelines, Heath, 1997.
External links
- Official site
- Powell's book review
- "Glasser Writes about Author's 'Hidden' Life"
Notes and References
- News: Citations search: "Leah Blatt Glasser" (Google Books). 2007-11-09.
- In the News: Traditions and communications. College Street Journal. May 24, 1996. May 30, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20050323015424/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/960524/news.html. March 23, 2005. dead.
- News: Citations search: "In a Closet Hidden" (Google Books). 2007-11-09.
