Dr Laura Rattray

  • Reader in North American Literature (post 1900) (English Literature)

telephone: 01413304216
email: Laura.Rattray@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 307, 4 University Gardens

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9795-7540

Research interests

Research Interests
19th and 20th century American literature
•American literary modernism
•Edith Wharton
•F. Scott Fitzgerald
•American fiction of the 1930s
•modern American women’s writing and gender
•the Hollywood novel and the writer in Hollywood
•transatlantic literary studies
•archival studies and publishing history

Biography

Dr Laura Rattray is Reader in American Literature. She joined Glasgow University in January 2013, having previously been Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Hull.

Laura has researched and published widely on the work of the American writer Edith Wharton.  She is editor of the two-volume The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country: A Reassessment, Edith Wharton in Context, and Wharton’s novel, Summer.  With Mary Chinery, Laura wrote about and edited The Shadow of a Doubt (1901), a three-act original play previously unknown to Wharton scholars, published in the Edith Wharton Review in spring 2017. The premiere of the play, with its controversial plot line of assisted suicide, was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in October 2018. Laura’s monograph Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. She is currently co-editing the selected letters of Edith Wharton to the art historians Bernard and Mary Berenson for Yale University Press and the New Edith Wharton Studies for Cambridge University Press. You can listen to Laura taking part in BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time programme on Edith Wharton here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000ml8

Laura’s varied American research interests are represented by publications on the 1930s, publishing history, the writer in Hollywood, Horace McCoy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, neglected women writers, and by her co-edited volume Twenty-First-Century Readings of Tender Is the Night (2007).  She is currently completing a monograph on American fiction of the 1930s.

In 2016 Laura founded the series "Cultural Connections: Transatlantic Literary Women", funded by the British Association for American Studies and the US Embassy. This project endeavours to bring the achievements of transatlantic women to a wider audience through free talks, workshops, creative writing showcases, reading groups and symposia. Find out more about the series, upcoming events and the team here: https://transatlanticladies.wordpress.com/

Laura is Director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies. Find out more about the Centre’s activities here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/americanstudies/

Publications

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2020

Rattray, L. (2020) Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 9780230361669 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-349-59557-0)

2019

Haytock, J. and Rattray, L. (Eds.) (2019) The New Edith Wharton Studies. Series: Twenty-First Century critical revisions. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108422697

Rattray, L. (2019) Edith Wharton's unprivileged lives. In: Haytock, J. and Rattray, L. (eds.) The New Edith Wharton Studies. Series: Twenty-First Century critical revisions. Cambridge University Press, pp. 113-128. ISBN 9781108422697

Rattray, L. (2019) Foreword. In: Tyler, L. (ed.) Wharton, Hemingway and the Advent of Modernism. Louisiana State University Press: Baton Rouge, vii-xiii. ISBN 9780807170489

2017

Chinery, M. and Rattray, L. (2017) The Shadow of a Doubt: discovering a new work by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton Review, 33(1), pp. 88-112. (doi: 10.5325/editwharrevi.33.1.0088)

Rattray, L. and Chinery, M. (2017) The Shadow of a Doubt: a play in three acts by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton Review, 33(1), pp. 113-257. (doi: 10.5325/editwharrevi.33.1.0113)

2015

Wharton, E. (2015) Summer. Series: Oxford world's classics. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198709985

2013

Rattray, L. (2013) The golden age of Hollywood. In: Mangum, B. (ed.) F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Cambridge University Press: New York, NY, USA. ISBN 9781107009196

2012

Rattray, L. (Ed.) (2012) Edith Wharton in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107010192

Knights, P. and Rattray, L. (2012) Chronology: Wharton in cultural and historical context. In: Rattray, L. (ed.) Edith Wharton in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107010192

Rattray, L. (2012) Edith Wharton: contextual revisions. In: Rattray, L. (ed.) Edith Wharton in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107010192

2010

Rattray, L. (Ed.) (2010) Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country: A Reassessment. Series: Gender and genre. Pickering & Chatto: London, UK. ISBN 9781851962242

2009

Rattray, L.(Ed.) (2009) The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton. Vol. 1, Plays. [Scholarly Editions]

Rattray, L.(Ed.) (2009) The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton. Vol. 2, Novels and Life Writing. [Scholarly Editions]

2008

Rattray, L. (2008) Cinematic license: Editorial imprints on the Hollywood novels of Horace McCoy. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 102(1), pp. 77-94.

2007

Blazek, W. and Rattray, L. (Eds.) (2007) Twenty-First-Century Readings of Tender is the Night. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, UK. ISBN 9781846310713

Rattray, L. (2007) An 'unblinding of eyes': the narrative vision of Tender is the Night. In: Blazek, W. and Rattray, L. (eds.) Twenty-First-Century Readings of Tender is the Night. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, UK. ISBN 9781846310713

2006

Rattray, L. (2006) The unpublished writings of Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton Review, 22(2), pp. 1-6.

2005

Rattray, L. (2005) Editing the 1930s: The lost work of Josephine Johnson. Women: A Cultural Review, 16(2), pp. 189-202. (doi: 10.1080/09574040500156370)

2004

Rattray, L. (2004) Josephine Johnson and Clifton Fadiman at Simon and Schuster: the genesis of a Pulitzer. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 98(2),

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Articles

Chinery, M. and Rattray, L. (2017) The Shadow of a Doubt: discovering a new work by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton Review, 33(1), pp. 88-112. (doi: 10.5325/editwharrevi.33.1.0088)

Rattray, L. and Chinery, M. (2017) The Shadow of a Doubt: a play in three acts by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton Review, 33(1), pp. 113-257. (doi: 10.5325/editwharrevi.33.1.0113)

Rattray, L. (2008) Cinematic license: Editorial imprints on the Hollywood novels of Horace McCoy. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 102(1), pp. 77-94.

Rattray, L. (2006) The unpublished writings of Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton Review, 22(2), pp. 1-6.

Rattray, L. (2005) Editing the 1930s: The lost work of Josephine Johnson. Women: A Cultural Review, 16(2), pp. 189-202. (doi: 10.1080/09574040500156370)

Rattray, L. (2004) Josephine Johnson and Clifton Fadiman at Simon and Schuster: the genesis of a Pulitzer. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 98(2),

Books

Rattray, L. (2020) Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 9780230361669 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-349-59557-0)

Book Sections

Rattray, L. (2019) Edith Wharton's unprivileged lives. In: Haytock, J. and Rattray, L. (eds.) The New Edith Wharton Studies. Series: Twenty-First Century critical revisions. Cambridge University Press, pp. 113-128. ISBN 9781108422697

Rattray, L. (2019) Foreword. In: Tyler, L. (ed.) Wharton, Hemingway and the Advent of Modernism. Louisiana State University Press: Baton Rouge, vii-xiii. ISBN 9780807170489

Rattray, L. (2013) The golden age of Hollywood. In: Mangum, B. (ed.) F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Cambridge University Press: New York, NY, USA. ISBN 9781107009196

Knights, P. and Rattray, L. (2012) Chronology: Wharton in cultural and historical context. In: Rattray, L. (ed.) Edith Wharton in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107010192

Rattray, L. (2012) Edith Wharton: contextual revisions. In: Rattray, L. (ed.) Edith Wharton in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107010192

Rattray, L. (2007) An 'unblinding of eyes': the narrative vision of Tender is the Night. In: Blazek, W. and Rattray, L. (eds.) Twenty-First-Century Readings of Tender is the Night. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, UK. ISBN 9781846310713

Edited Books

Haytock, J. and Rattray, L. (Eds.) (2019) The New Edith Wharton Studies. Series: Twenty-First Century critical revisions. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108422697

Wharton, E. (2015) Summer. Series: Oxford world's classics. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198709985

Rattray, L. (Ed.) (2012) Edith Wharton in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107010192

Rattray, L. (Ed.) (2010) Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country: A Reassessment. Series: Gender and genre. Pickering & Chatto: London, UK. ISBN 9781851962242

Blazek, W. and Rattray, L. (Eds.) (2007) Twenty-First-Century Readings of Tender is the Night. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, UK. ISBN 9781846310713

Scholarly Editions

Rattray, L.(Ed.) (2009) The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton. Vol. 1, Plays. [Scholarly Editions]

Rattray, L.(Ed.) (2009) The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton. Vol. 2, Novels and Life Writing. [Scholarly Editions]

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Grants

Dr Rattray’s grants and awards include a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, the Edith and Richard French visiting fellowship at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, two Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland research awards, a Being Human Festival award, a British Association for American Studies Founders’ Research Travel Award, an Edith Wharton Society Collection Research Award, a British Academy small research grant, a British Academy overseas conference grant, and two BAAS/US Embassy grants.

Laura has recently held visiting fellowships at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, at the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria, Italy, and in 2019 an Eccles Centre visiting fellowship at the British Library.

Supervision

Dr Rattray welcomes queries from prospective PhD students in any aspect of 19th and 20th century American literature and American Studies, but especially in the areas of American literary modernism, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, American fiction of the 1930s, modern American women’s writing and gender, and transatlantic literary studies.

Laura has supervised a wide range of American Studies and American Literature research projects, including, at Glasgow, PhDs to successful completion on representations of working women in Depression-era America and stand-up comedy in the Obama era.

She is currently first supervisor for three PhD students working on female mental illness in New York fiction, the Hollywood novel, and William Faulkner.



Teaching

Dr Rattray created and convenes the postgraduate MLitt options ‘American Fiction of the 1930s’, ‘F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton and Dialogues of American Literary Modernism’ and the senior honours options ‘Modern American Women’s Writing’ and ‘US Fictions of the Great Depression’.

She has convened the American Studies MLitt programme and its core course, and the junior honours option ‘American Literature 2 (1930 to present)’. She has also taught on the junior honours options ‘American Literature 1 (1836 to 1929)’, the Modernities MLitt, and the pre-honours courses ‘Poetry and Poetics’, ‘The Novel and Narratology’, ‘Writing and Text’ and ‘Writing and Ideology’.

Additional information

Dr Rattray has given keynotes and invited public lectures in the UK, US, Italy and France, including the keynote at the International Edith Wharton Society Conference in Washington DC in June 2016. She has co-directed four international conferences and symposia. In 2011 she was the invited Programme Director for the International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference in Lyon.

She has been the external examiner for PhD theses in the UK, the US and Australia. Laura has served as a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College, on the European Fellowship Advisory Committee of the Bogliasco Foundation, and as a Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Research Assessor. She is on the editorial board of the Edith Wharton Review (2008-present).