Leslie Petty is Professor of English and the T.K. Young Chair of English Literature. She teaches courses in nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and gender and sexuality studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of first wave feminism and American literature, and her work appears in journals such as Studies in the American Short Story and Legacy. She is the co-editor of New Orleans in Poetry and Prose, which is forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi, and she is currently writing Feminism, Modern Fiction, and American Literary Culture. Dr. Petty earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and has been at 星空无限传媒 since 2003. She also serves as the Executive Coordinator for the American Literature Association.
Dr. Petty's Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications
Books
鈥淭he Most Salient Point in American Life: Voting Rights and Fiction in the Nineteenth Century.鈥 The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics. Ed. John D. Kerkering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (accepted and forthcoming)
. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Articles
鈥淨ueer Feminism in Djuna Barnes鈥檚 Journalism.鈥 Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 40.1 (forthcoming).
鈥淔eminism and Work in Edna Ferber鈥檚 鈥楽isters Under Their Skin.鈥欌 1.1 (April 2020) 19-37.
鈥淩ealism and the New Woman.鈥 . Ed. Keith Newlin. Oxford University Press, 2019. 447-464.
鈥溾楪rim old London welcomed me back鈥: Elizabeth Cady Stanton鈥檚 Second Foray into Europe.鈥 Transnationalism and Modern American Women Writers, . 16.2 (2019): 1-15.
鈥淎masa Delano鈥檚 Thwarted Desires: The Speculative Economy of Bachelorhood in Melville鈥檚 Benito Cereno.鈥 2009. (under consideration).
. 34 (2005): 377-403.
鈥淪usan Petigru King.鈥 American Women Prose Writers, 1820-1870. Ed. Amy E. Hudock and Katharine Rodier. Vol. 239. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2001. 174-181.
鈥淭he 鈥楧ual鈥-ing Images of la Malinche and la Virgen de Guadalupe in Cisneros鈥瞫 The House on Mango Street.鈥 MELUS 25.2 (2000): 119-32.
鈥溾楽he has some buried connection with these lives鈥: Autobiographical Acts in Can鈥檛 Quit You, Baby.鈥Ellen Douglas. Ed. Thomas L. McHaney and Noel Polk. Spec. issue of The Southern Quarterly 33.4 (1995): 121-29.
Book Reviews
鈥The Female Complaint by Lauren Berlant.鈥 Journal of American History 37.1 (March 2009): 1154-1155.
鈥Front Page Girls by Jean Marie Lutes.鈥 Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature 27.1 (Spring 2008): 186-88.
鈥Schoolgirls by Peggy Orenstein.鈥 Louisiana Association for College Composition Journal for College Writing 2 (May 1995).
Education
Ph.D., Department of English, The University of Georgia. 2003
Women鈥檚 Studies Graduate Certificate. The University of Georgia, Fall 2001
M.A., Department of English, Louisiana State University, Spring 1995
B.A., Emory University, English. Spring 1992