Dr. Lisa Colletta
- Associate Professor of English – Director of English and Writing Program
- B.A., University of Nevada
- M.A., California State University
- Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Lisa Colletta’s area of expertise is twentieth-century British and American literature, and her research interests include humor studies, the literature of travel and exile, and literary history, especially as it relates to ideas of narrative and aesthetic response.
She has published three books: Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood’s Letters to his Mother (University of Minnesota Press, 2005); and Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O’Brien, co-edited with Maureen O’Connor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006). She has just completed a book manuscript on the life and work of British novelists in Hollywood during the first half of the twentieth century, entitled Voluntary Exiles: British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965.
Her work has appeared in numerous newspapers and journals, such as the Los Angeles Times, The Journal of Popular Culture, Critical Engagements, The Journal of Arts and Society, and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal; and in the essay collections Intermodernism: Writing and Culture in Interwar and Wartime Britain, And in Our Time: Vision and Revision in British Writing of the 1930s, and The Landscapes of John Fowles.
