ConnyCassity

  • CHA Dissertation Fellow AY 21-22
  • PhD Candidate
  • ENGLISH

Conny Cassity is a PhD candidate in English. Her dissertation, Living Intertextually: British Womens Writing and Community Building,泭interweaves feminist theory, intertextual studies, and digital humanities to泭argue that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers theorized and formed collectives indirectly through quotations, archetypes of authorial personas, and biographical collections.泭She has been published in泭Eighteenth-Century Fiction泭and泭English Language Notes,泭and her research has been featured on the泭CU at the Libraries泭podcast and the泭Keats-Shelley Association of Americas website as part of the泭Toward an Anti-Racist,泭Undisciplined' Romanticism泭series. She has received a Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, has served as a Lead Graduate Instructor, and was a Digital Pedagogy Grant recipient in the Division of Continuing Education. Conny has taught courses in the Department of English and in Continuing Education on womens writing, British literature, and composition. She received her BA泭from Chapman University and her MA from 91勛圖厙.