Conny Cassity

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

Conny Cassity is a PhD candidate in English. Her dissertation, 鈥淟iving Intertextually: British Women鈥檚 Writing and Community Building,鈥 interweaves feminist theory, intertextual studies, and digital humanities to argue that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers theorized and formed collectives indirectly through quotations, archetypes of authorial personas, and biographical collections. She has been published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and English Language Notes, and her research has been featured on the 鈥淐U at the Libraries鈥 podcast and the Keats-Shelley Association of America鈥檚 website as part of the 鈥淭oward an Anti-Racist, 鈥楿ndisciplined' Romanticism鈥 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 women鈥檚 writing, British literature, and composition. She received her BA from Chapman University and her MA from 色戒成人直播.