Leah Blatt Glasser is an American literary critic and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman scholar at Mount Holyoke College.[1] She was Dean of First-Year Studies and is currently a lecturer in English at Mount Holyoke College. Her former student (the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks) would later credit Glasser for her success.[2]

Leah Blatt Glasser
OccupationProfessor
NationalityAmerican
GenreAmerican literature
Notable worksIn a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Background

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Glasser received her B.A. degree in 1972, her M.A. in 1973 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1982. She has taught at Mount Holyoke College since year 1980 and is a contributing editor to the Heath Anthology of American Fiction.

Publications

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  • A Landscape of One's Own: Nature-Writing and Women's Autobiography (forthcoming)
  • In a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996).[3]
  • "She Is the One You Call Sister: Discovering Mary E. Wilkins Freeman", in Between Women, ed. Ascher, DeSalvo, and Ruddick (Routledge Press, 1994).
  • Contributing Editor to The Heath Anthology of American Literature and Teaching Guidelines, Heath, 1997.

References

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  1. ^ "Citations search: "Leah Blatt Glasser" (Google Books)". Retrieved November 9, 2007.
  2. ^ "In the News: Traditions and communications". College Street Journal. May 24, 1996. Archived from the original on March 23, 2005. Retrieved May 30, 2006.
  3. ^ "Citations search: "In a Closet Hidden" (Google Books)". Retrieved November 9, 2007.
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  1. Official site
  2. Powell's book review
  3. "Glasser Writes about Author's 'Hidden' Life"