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Dr. Lisa Carstens
Dr. Lisa Carstens
| Title(s) | Batten Professor of English; Associate Dean of Inquiry-Guided Learning |
| Status | Faculty |
| Department(s) | English |
| Phone number | 757.455.3268 |
| E-mail address | |
| Website | http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~lcarstens/ |
| Office location | Eggleston 101 |
Lisa Carstens earned her doctorate in English at the University of California, Irvine and a bachelor's degree in English and Theater from Occidental College. Her research and teaching interests include Anglo-American Modernism, 19th- and 20-th century British literature, contemporary postcolonial fiction, women's and gender studies, critical theory, and expository and creative writing. She has published most recently on the literature of Virginia Woolf and William Styron and has presented numerous professional papers at national and international conferences on, among other subjects, James Joyce, J. M. Coetzee, and the influence of turn-of-the-century reproductive science on the cultural reception of British suffragettes. In addition to her current role as Associate Dean, Dr. Carstens has previously served as coordinator of the English Department, Director of the Winter Session and Chair of the Humanities Division.
Publications
- Carstens, Lisa. "The Science of Sex and the Art of Self-Materializing in (Woolf's) Orlando." Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds. Ed. Jessica Schiff Berman. New York: Pace University Press, 2002.
- Carstens, Lisa. "Sexual Politics of Confessional Testimony in Sophie's Choice." Twentieth Century Literature, 2001.