Lisa Kasmer

Lisa Kasmer, Associate Professor of English at Clark University, specializes in gender and sexuality studies and trauma studies in Romanticism and Victorian culture. Her research focuses on the construction of sociopolitical narratives and subjectivity in nineteenth-century literature through genre and form. Her monograph Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 examines women’s political engagement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the shifting forms of historiography. Her edited collection Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores intersections of nationalism and trauma in Romantic and Victorian literature and cultural artifacts. Her current book project “Traumatic Failure in Romanticism” examines the way in which Romantic aesthetics shape narratives concerning oppression and social inequity. Some of her recent courses are Traumatic Tales: British Romantic Literature and Nationhood, Queer Victorians, Making Gender through the Eighteenth-Century Novel, and The Gothic.