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skidmore college's
AMERICAN STUDIES
department faculty
JANET CASEY
Janet Galligani Casey received a B.A. in Music and English from the College of the Holy Cross; she earned her Ph.D. in English, specializing in American literature and culture, in 1991 (University of Delaware). She is the author of Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine (Cambridge University Press, 1998), which won the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Independent Scholars, and she is the editor of The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction (Iowa UP, 2004). In 2003-04 she was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow. She has won several research grants and authored a variety of articles on American topics; currently she is exploring the relations among American women, notions of modernity, and rurality.
In addition to her courses in American Studies, Casey also teaches a variety of courses in the Skidmore English Department, notably on American modernism and ideologies of class. She is also heavily involved in Literacy NENY, a tri-county agency that delivers adult literacy services.
