Janet G. Casey is a professor of English and director of the First Year Experience at Skidmore College, where she also teaches courses in American Studies. She is the author of Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine and A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America. She is also the editor of The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction and has cocurated a museum exhibition, Classless Society. She resides in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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