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Grasso, Linda

Professor
English

Phone: 718-262-2490
Office Location: AC-2A07
lgrasso@york.cuny.edu
http://york.cuny.edu/~grasso/

Office Hours
Tuesday	4:30-5:30
By Appointment

Education:

Degree	Institution	Field	Dates
PhD	Brown University	American Civilization	1993
MA	Brown University	American Civilization	1989
BA	City University of New York Baccalaureate Program	Women's Studies	1985

Linda M. Grasso specializes in U.S. Literature and Culture, Women's Literature, and Women's Studies. She teaches courses in American Literature, African American Literature, Women's Studies, American Studies, and Writing. Professor Grasso's current book in progress Feminism and Georgia O'Keeffe explores how Georgia O'Keeffe and feminism are linked in scholarship, popular culture, and the public imagination. Using published and unpublished sources, including paintings, photographs, fan letters, autobiography, and business documents, Professor Grasso examines O'Keeffe's art, life, writing, and reputation by foregrounding feminist questions, employing feminist reading practices, and situating O'Keeffe in U.S. feminist history.

Areas of Expertise:: U.S. Literature
U.S. Women's Literature and Culture
African American Literature
U.S. Women's History
Asian American Studies
Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum

Books in Field Of Expertise:: Grasso, Linda. The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2002. 249 pgs.

Articles in Field Of Expertise:

Grasso, Linda. "Academically on Course." Inside Higher Ed. 2 September 2011: .

Grasso, Linda. "Reading Published Letter Collections as Literary Texts: Correspondence Between Maria Chabot and Georgia O’Keeffe, 1941-1949." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 25. 2 (Fall 2008): 239-250.

Grasso, Linda. "Inventive Desperation: Anger, Violence, and Belonging in Mary Wilkins Freeman’s and Sui Sin Far’s Murderous Mother Stories." American Literary Realism. 38.1 (Fall 2005): 18-31.

Grasso, Linda. "Masking Volcanic Anger: The Repressive World of Nineteenth-Century White Female Emotional Culture." Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies. 27 (2003): 27-48.

Grasso, Linda. "Changing Conversations, Shifting Paradigms: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Women's Literary Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century." College Literature. 29.2 (2002): 149-158.

Grasso, Linda. "Louisa May Alcott's 'Magic Inkstand': Little Women, Feminism, and The Myth of Regeneration." Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies. 19.1 (1998): 177-192.

Grasso, Linda. "Anger in the House: Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall and the Redrawing of Emotional Boundaries in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America." Studies in the American Renaissance. (1995): 251-261.

Grasso, Linda. "‘Thwarted Life, Mighty Hunger, Unfinished Work:’ The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Women Writing in America." ATQ: 19th C. American Literature and Culture. 8.2 (June 1994): 97-118.

Chapters in Field Of Expertise:: Grasso, Linda. "Edited Letter Collections as Epistolary Fictions: Imagining African American Women’s History in Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends." . Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860. Ed. Theresa Strouth Gaul and Sharon M. Harris. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company 2009: 249-267.

Reviews in Field Of Expertise:

"Review of Love and Marriage in Early African America. Ed. by Frances Smith Foster. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2008. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 26.1" (2009): 171-172.

"Review of Maria Chabot—Georgia O’Keeffe: Correspondence, 1941-1949. Ed. by Barbara Buhler Lynes and Ann Paden. New Mexico Historical Review" (Fall 2005): 451-452.

"Review of Blood & Irony: Southern White Women’s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 by Sarah E. Gardner. American Historical Review" (December 2005): 1537.

"Review of The Reader's Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse by Christine L. Krueger. Sex Roles 29.10" (Nov. 1993): 720-722.