Education

B.A. summa cum laude, Duke University, 1976
M.A., University of Virginia, 1979
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1983

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The Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831 by Donna Landry. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, 2001. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award Winner: In the 18th century, increased sport and tourism began to supplement the use of land for agricultural production. Between the Game Act of 1671 and its repeal in 1831, writers on walking and hunting often held opposed views, but contributed equally to the origins of modern ecology, while attempting to preserve common rights in an era of growing privatization.

The Country and the City Revisited : England and the Politics of Culture, 1550-1850 by Donna Landry (Editor), Gerald MacLean (Editor), Jo Ward. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Between 1550 and 1850, how were the English people able to transform themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities into an imperial power? This book supplements Raymond Williams's seminal work on the country and the city by applying exciting new interdisciplinary perspectives on the question. During the great age of mercantilism, new conceptions of space, time, and social identity began to emerge that are still with us today. This collection of essays by major scholars looks afresh at central issues of early modern English history.

The Spivak Reader : Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Donna Landry (Editor) Gerald MacLean (Editor). Routledge, 1995. Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies. Although her rigorous reading of various authors has often rendered her work difficult terrain for those unfamiliar with poststructuralism, this collection makes significant strides in explicating Spivak's complicated theories of reading.

Materialist Feminisms by Donna Landry, Gerald MacLean . Basil Blackwell, 1993. This text investigates the theoretical and political debates that have determined the course of British and United States feminism over the last 30 years. It examines the work of such feminist theorists as Michele Barrett, Judith Butler, Rosalind Coward, Donna Haraway and bellhooks.

The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796 by Donna Landry. Cambridge University, 1990. In this original and challenging study, Donna Landry shows how an understanding of the remarkable but neglected careers of laboring-class women poets in the eighteenth century provokes a reassessment of our ideas concerning the literature of the period. Poets such as the washerwoman Mary Collier, the milkwoman Ann Yearsley, the domestic servants Mary Leapor and Elizabeth Hands, the dairywoman Jane Little, and the slave Phillis Wheatley can be seen employing various methods to adapt the conventions of polite verse for the purposes of social criticism. Historically important, technically impressive, and aesthetically innovative, the poetic achievements of these working class- women writers constitute an exciting literary discovery.