Dr. Laura Rattray

Associate Professor

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Biography

Laura Rattray is a Reader in American Literature at the University of Glasgow, where she joined in January 2013 after serving as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Hull. Rattray has published extensively on the work of American writer Edith Wharton, including editing the two-volume 'Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton' and her monograph 'Edith Wharton Genre: Fiction', published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. She is also involved in co-editing selected letters of Edith Wharton for Yale University Press and Cambridge University Press. Rattray's research interests extend to 19th and 20th-century American literature and include American literary modernism, the Hollywood novel, and archival studies. She founded the 'Cultural Connections: Transatlantic Literary Women' series, which aims to promote the achievements of transatlantic women writers. In addition to her research, she teaches various undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including options focusing on American fiction of the 1930s and dialogues between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton. Laura has been active in the academic community, having given keynotes and served as an external examiner for PhD theses in the UK and Australia.

Research Interests

19th Century American Literature 20th Century American Literature American Literary Modernism Edith Wharton F. Scott Fitzgerald American Fiction 1930s Modern American Women's Writing Transatlantic Literary Studies Archival Studies

Experience

Reader

2013-01-01 — Present

University of Glasgow • Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Reader in American Literature, overseeing various research projects and teaching courses.

Lecturer

2007-01-01 — 2013-01-01

University of Hull • Hull, England, UK

Lecturer in American Literature.

Senior Lecturer

2010-01-01 — 2013-01-01