Calista McRae
Associate Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences
408 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
Education
Ph.D.
; Harvard University
; English
; 2016
B.A. ; Amherst College ; English ; 2009
B.A. ; Amherst College ; English ; 2009
2025 Fall Courses
COM 230 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM
HSS 404 - LIT SEM: BLEAK COMEDY
HSS 404 - LIT SEM: 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: REPRESENTING THE BRAIN
HSS 404: LIT SEM: REPRESENTING THE MIND
HSS 404: LIT SEM: TRAGICOMEDY ACROSS GENRES
HSS 410: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SENIOR SEMINAR
HUM 101: WRITING,SPEAKING, THINKING I
HUM 102: WRITING, SPEAKING, THINKING II
HUM 211: THE PRE-MODERN WORLD
HUM 212: THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
HUM 230: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
HUM 232: INTRODUCTION TO FILM
LIT 230: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
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: REPRESENTING THE BRAIN
HSS 404: LIT SEM: REPRESENTING THE MIND
HSS 404: LIT SEM: TRAGICOMEDY ACROSS GENRES
HSS 410: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SENIOR SEMINAR
HUM 101: WRITING,SPEAKING, THINKING I
HUM 102: WRITING, SPEAKING, THINKING II
HUM 211: THE PRE-MODERN WORLD
HUM 212: THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
HUM 230: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
HUM 232: INTRODUCTION TO FILM
LIT 230: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
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. 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.
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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.
Philip Coleman, Calista A. McRae. "The Selected Letters of John Berryman." 730 pp. Harvard University Press, 2020.