Lisa Vetere, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Department Advising Coordinator
Department: English
Office: The Great Hall Annex 409
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Fridays, 1:30-2:30 p.m.; and by appointment.
Phone: 732-571-3611
Email: lvetere@monmouth.edu
Lisa M. Vetere is an Associate Professor of English at Monmouth University, where she mostly teaches courses in American literature. Her research focuses on the relationship between early nineteenth-century American narratives and historical crises both environmental and cultural. A recent essay on the interdependence between horticulture and literature in early writings of Philadelphia was included in the collection, Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). Other work has appeared in the collection, Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Routledge 2017) as well as in journals such as Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History and JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory, the latter recognized by Duke University’s American Literary Scholarship as a “noteworthy period study” in Early-19th-Century Literature. She is a 2004 graduate of Lehigh University’s Ph.D. program in English.
Education
Ph.D., Lehigh University
Research Interests
Dr. Vetere’s interests include: early and antebellum American literature and culture with an emphasis on historiography and the historical romance; American studies; cultural studies; and feminist criticism.
Scholarly Articles
Book Chapters
“The Horrors of the Horticultural: Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and the Landscape of the Anthropocene.” Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene, Eds. Justin Edwards, Johan Höglund, and Rune Graulund. University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
“A Heap of Ruins”: The Horrors of Deforestation in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History.” Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment) Eds. Dawn Keetley & Matthew Sivils. Routledge, 2017.
“The Rage of Willow: Malefic Witchcraft Fantasy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Buffy Conquers the Academy. Eds. U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.
Journal Articles
“’The Malefic Unconscious: Gender, Genre, and History in Early Antebellum Witchcraft Narratives.” Journal of Narrative Theory. 42.2 (Spring/Summer 2012): 119148.
- Recognized by Duke University’s American Literary Scholarship [1 (September 2014): 219–242] as a “noteworthy period study” of 2012 in Early-19th-Century Literature.
“Imagining the Mastery of Cotton Mather: The Performance of Antebellum Manhood in Charles Upham’s Lectures on Witchcraft (1831).” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History. 4.2 (Spring 2011): 209-234
- Listed by Shelby Johnson in “Some Current Publications.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring 2012), p. 82.
Forthcoming
“Gothic Jasmine: Affect and Vegetal Monstrosity in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; Or The Horrors of San Domingo”
Book Project in Progress: The Schuylkill Imaginary: Gothic Glimpses of the Multispecies Landscapes of Philadelphia in the Early Republic
Additional Information
SERVICE:
University Discipline Committee
First-Year Seminar Working Group
Executive Committee, FAMCO
Curriculum Committee, Gender Studies
Curriculum Committee, English Department
Courses
Recently Taught Classes
2023 Spring
2022 Fall
2022 Spring
- Ghost Stories and Other Haunting Tales – EN 224
- Place and Space in American Literature – EN 414
- Twentieth Century Psychoanalysis – PR 473
2021 Fall
2021 Spring
2020 Fall
- Foundations of American Literature – EN 228
- Ghost Stories and Other Haunting Tales – EN 224
- Twentieth Century Psychoanalysis – PR 473
2020 Spring
Frequently Taught Classes
- Cooperative Education: English (EN 488)
- Foundations of American Literature (EN 228)
- Ghost Stories and Other Haunting Tales (EN 224)
- Literature II: Neoclassical to the Present (EN 202)
- Literature of Colonial America (EN 324)
- MID-Nineteenth Century American Literature (EN 327)
- Nineteenth Century American Literature (EN 561)
- Twentieth Century Psychoanalysis (PR 473)
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