Leah Blatt Glasser

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occupation = Professor
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notableworks ="In a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman"
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Leah Blatt Glasser is an American literary critic and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman scholar at Mount Holyoke College. [cite news
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date = ] She is currently "Dean of First-Year Studies & Lecturer in English" at Mount Holyoke College. Her then - student (the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks) would later credit Glasser with her success.cite web| title = In the News: Traditions and communications| publisher =College Street Journal| date =May 24, 1996| url =http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/960524/news.html]

Background

Glasser received her B.A. in 1972 and M.A. in 1973 from State University of New York at Stony Brook and her Ph.D from Brown University in 1992. She has taught at Mount Holyoke since 1980 and is a contributing editor to the "Heath Anthology of American Fiction."

Publications

*"A Landscape of One's Own: Nature-Writing and Women's Autobiography," (forthcoming)
*" [http://books.google.com/books?id=iG4cO8wuWz8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Leah+Blatt+Glasser%22&sig=AxCKrh9GqM8aLy9tEIIxFdT1awE In a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman] " (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996). [cite news
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* "She Is the One You Call Sister: Discovering Mary E. Wilkins Freeman," in Between Womened. Ascher, DeSalvo, and Ruddick (Routledge Press, 1994).
* Contributing Editor to The Heath Anthology of American Literature and Teaching Guidelines, Heath, 1997.

References

External links

* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/misc/profile/glasser.shtml Official site]
* [http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-1558490280-0 Powell's book review]
* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/961011/glasser.html Glasser Writes about Author's "Hidden" Life]