Office: Sitterly House 207 Campus Extension:  3141 Email:  claity@drew.edu Degrees:   B.A., New York University; M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., 1984.  Arrived at Drew: 1991 Areas of Specialization:  Modernism; Victorian and Romanticism; Irish studies; Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexuality; Critical Theory; Poetry and Poetics; Literature and Natural History Courses taught at Drew:  Modern Literature and Culture, Modern Literature and World War I, Irish Modernism, Literary Theory, Victorian Decadence, Romantic and Victorian approaches to Nature

Awards:   NEH Research Fellowship (1989-1990),  Visiting Fellowship, Yale University, Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library (1987), Three-Year Mellon Assistant Professorship, Vanderbilt University (1987-1990).

Professional activities:  Editor, Modernism/Modernity (Johns Hopkins University Press); Member, MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession; Board Member, Modernist Studies Association; Editorial board of cerebration

Recent Publications:   Co-editor (with Nancy Gish) and Introduction, Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T.S. Eliot (Cambridge University Press, 2005; pbk 2007);  H.D. and the Victorian fin-de-Siecle: Modernism, Gender, Decadence (Cambridge University press, 1996; pbk 2009); Editor and Introduction, H.D., Paint it Today (New York University Press: 1992)

Work-in-progress:  Co-edited with Susan McCabe, The Modern World (forthcoming, Routledge); Book mss: “Darwin’s Geological ‘Sublime’ and Poetic Modernity: From Decadence to Modern Poetry”

Points of Interest:   Modernism/Modernity won the"Phoenix Prize" from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) in 2003.