Leah Glasser

Leah Blatt Glasser taught courses in nineteenth- through twentieth-century American literature, women writers, biography, autobiography, and creative and expository writing. Glasser's writing seminars became workshops in which students read each other's works and learned to develop an ear for effective strategies in analytical, persuasive, and descriptive writing. She also enjoyed teaching seminars in which students actively participated in discussion about literature in connection to other disciplines, such as environmental studies, women's studies, and American history. Glasser's seminars often focused on works by or about women. She encourages students to understand the context for the history of women's lives and works and to consider its relationship to their own experiences in the twenty-first century. Glasser served as dean of first-year students, senior class dean and dean of studies before returning to the English department full-time in 2016.

Her essays have been published in numerous journals, including Legacy, American Literary Realism, Massachusetts Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Glasser's new book project, “A Landscape of One's Own: Nature-Writing and Women's Autobiography (1880's-1920's),” builds on her first book, exploring women's historic relationship to landscape and its influence on how they told their life stories.