Calista McRae

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Education
Ph.D.; Harvard University; English; 2016
B.A.; Amherst College; English; 2009
Website
http://sites.google.com/site/calistamcrae
2026 Fall Courses
HSS 404 - BLEAK COMEDY
Past Courses
COM 230: INTRODUCTION TO FILM
COM 315: ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION
HSS 403: HUMANITIES SENIOR SEMINAR - LITERATURE
HSS 403: LIT SEM:
HSS 403: LIT SEM: COMEDY IN LITERATURE AND FILM
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ELEMENTS OF COMEDY
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ELEMENTS OF COMEDY - HONORS
HSS 403: LIT SEM: THE BRAIN IN LITERATURE & FILM
HSS 404: HUMANITIES, HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SENIOR SEMINAR
HSS 404: LIT SEM: BLEAK COMEDY
Journal Article
Calista A. McRae. 2022. "“Robert Lowell’s Alphabet Poem: Writing to Children in the Midcentury.” ." American Literary History, vol. 34, no. 2.
Calista A. McRae. 2021. "“‘More human than others’: Stevie Smith and the Inner Lives of Pets.” ." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 1.
Calista A. McRae. 2020. "Ulysses and the Long Lyrics of A. R. Ammons." James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 3-4.
Calista McRae. 2020. "The Bird at the Window." Boston Review, pp. online.
Calista A. McRae. 2018. ""Now someone's talking": Unpunctuation and the Deadpan Poem." Modernism/modernity , vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1–20.
Calista A. McRae. 2016. "'There ought to be a law’: The Unruly Comedy of The Dream Songs." Modern Philology, vol. 114, no. 2, pp. 411-432.
Book
Calista A. McRae. "Lyric as Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar American." 208 pp. Cornell University Press, 2020.
Philip Coleman, Calista A. McRae. "The Selected Letters of John Berryman." 730 pp. Harvard University Press, 2020.