Grasso, Linda
Professor
English
Phone: 718-262-2490
Office Location: AC-2A07
lgrasso@york.cuny.edu
http://york.cuny.edu/~grasso/
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Education
Degree | Institution | Field | Dates |
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PhD | Brown University | American Studies | 1993 |
MA | Brown University | American Studies | 1989 |
BA | City University of New York Baccalaureate Program | Women's Studies | 1985 |
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
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Grasso, Linda M. Equal under the Sky: Georgia O'Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. 368 pgs.
Grasso, Linda M. 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
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Grasso, Linda M. "Differently Radical: Suffrage Issues and Feminist Ideas in The Crisis and The Masses." American Journalism: A Journal of Media History. 36.1 (Winter 2019): 71-98.
Grasso, Linda M.. "'You are No Stranger to Me': Georgia O’Keeffe’s Fan Mail." Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. 5 (2013): 24-40.
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
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Grasso, Linda. "Feeling you near: Georgia O'Keeffe's Friendship with Mary Callery." . Navigating Women’s Friendships in American Literature and Culture, ed. Kristi Braham and Kelly Reames 2022: 203-237.
Grasso, Linda. "“Differently Radical: Suffrage Issues and Feminist Ideas in The Crisis and The Masses"." . Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage, ed. Linda Steiner, Carolyn Kitch, and Brooke Kroeger 2020: 115-133.
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
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"Review of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Wartime Texas Letters. By Amy Von Lintel. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 124.3" (January 2021): 356-357.
"Making It New and Keeping It Old: Recasting Frameworks and Contexts in Georgia O’Keeffe Studies. Canadian Review of American Studies 49.1" (Spring 2019): .
"Review of Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture by Sarah N. Roth. The American Historical Review 120.3" (2015): 1023-1024.
"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.