Terry Castle

Terry Castle (born 1953), once described by Susan Sontag as "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today," has published eight books, including the anthology "The Literature of Lesbianism", which won the Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award. [cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title = Author, Editor Terry Castle to Receive Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award | work = Chicago Pride | pages = | language = | publisher = | date = April 22, 2004 | url = http://www.chicagopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/1580841 | accessdate = 2006-12-17 ] She writes on topics ranging from eighteenth-century ghost stories to World War I era lesbianism to the so-called "photographic fringe." Her essays appear regularly in the "London Review of Books," the "Atlantic," and the "New Republic."

The daughter of British parents, Castle was born in San Diego and lived in England and Southern California as a child. She attended the University of Puget Sound and graduated in 1975 with a BA in English. She went on to attend the University of Minnesota to get her Ph.D. in English. [ [http://www.ups.edu/x16986.xml University of Puget Sound - Terry Castle '75] ]

Castle has begun experimenting in new media; her recent art, including a range of self portraits, may be viewed on her website.

A longtime resident of San Francisco, Castle is currently Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.

Bibliography

* "Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's 'Clarissa"' (1982) ISBN 0-801-41495-4
* "Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction" (1986) ISBN 0-804-71468-1
* "The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture" (1993) ISBN 0-231-07652-5
* "The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny" (1995) ISBN 0-195-08098-X
* "Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits" (1996) ISBN 0-231-10597-5
* "Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women, Sex, and Writing" (2002) ISBN 0-415-93874-0
* "Courage, Mon Amie" (2002) ISBN 1-873-09203-2
* "The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology From Ariosto To Stonewall" (2003) ISBN 0-231-12511-9

References

External links

* [http://www.stanford.edu/~castle/ Terry Castle's website]
* [http://terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com/ Terry Castle's blog]
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/cast01_.html Desperately Seeking Susan] - London Review of Books
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n16/cast01_.html Travels with My Mom] - London Review of Books