Leslie Petty, Co-Author, Voices and Visions

The Author:
Leslie Petty, Ph.D.,  is Professor of English and the T.K. Young Chair of English Literature at Rhodes Colleg in Memphis, TN. She teaches courses in 19th and 20th century American literature and gender and sexuality studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of first wave feminism and American literature, and her work appears in journals such as Studies in the American Short Story and Legacy. She is Co-Author of the new book, Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans’s Literary History with Dillard University professor and historian Nancy Dixon, Ph.D.

Education:
Dr. Petty, who serves as the Executive Coordinator for the American Literature Association, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and has been at Rhodes since 2003. She received her Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate from The University of Georgia; her M.A.  the Department of English, Louisiana State University; and her B.A. from Emory University.  

Other Publications:
Co-editor of New Orleans in Poetry and Prose, published by the University Press of Mississippi, she currently is writing Feminism, Modern Fiction, and American Literary Culture.  

The Most Salient Point in American Life: Voting Rights and Fiction in the 19th Century,
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics, Edited By. John D. Kerkering for Cambridge University Press.   

Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920, University of Georgia Press, 2006.

Queer Feminism in Djuna Barnes’s Journalism.  Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers    

Feminism and Work in Edna Ferber’s ‘Sisters Under Their Skin.  Studies in the American Short Story.

Realism and the New Woman.  The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism. Edited by Keith Newlin. Oxford University Press..

Grim old London welcomed me back’: Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Second Foray into Europe.  Trans-nationalism and Modern American Women Writers, 

Amasa Delano’s Thwarted Desires: The Speculative Economy of Bachelorhood in Melville’s Benito Cereno.