Faculty
Janet Casey
Professor 
Education:
- B.A., English and Music, College of the Holy Cross
- M.A., Ph.D., University of Delaware
Teaching and research interests:
- American Modernisms
- Narrative Theory
- American Leftist Literature
- Early Twentieth Century Magazines
Administrative positions:
- Director of the First Year Experience, 2012-2019
- Associate Dean of the Faculty for Diversity & Faculty Affairs, 2019-2025
Courses taught:
- English: Class Matters; Intro to Fiction; The Evolving Canon; Introduction to African American Literature; American Novel/American Fictions; American Modernisms; American Romanticism; American Realisms; Literature, Class, and Culture; Capstone: Faulkner.
- American Studies: The Machine in the Garden (cross-listed in Environmental Studies); American Bestsellers & Popular Culture; Magazines and Modernity.
Publications:
- Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today’s Classroom. [Ed.] U of Iowa Press, 2015.
- A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America. Oxford UP, 2009.*Winner of the Gita Chaudhuri Prize (Western Association of Women Historians)
- The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction. [Editor and contributor.] U of Iowa Press, 2004.
- Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine. Cambridge UP, 1998. [Reissued in paper, 2009.]*Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Independent Scholars