ConnyCassity
- CHA Dissertation Fellow AY 21-22
- PhD Candidate
- ENGLISH
Conny Cassity is a PhD candidate in English. Her dissertation, “Living Intertextually: British Women’s Writing and Community Building,”interweaves feminist theory, intertextual studies, and digital humanities toargue 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 inEighteenth-Century FictionandEnglish Language Notes,and her research has been featured on the“CU at the Libraries”podcast and theKeats-Shelley Association of America’s website as part of the“Toward an Anti-Racist,‘Undisciplined' Romanticism”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’s writing, British literature, and composition. She received her BAfrom Chapman University and her MA from CU ǸԹ.