Christopher La Casse is an Associate Professor and Director of the Hewitt Writing and Reading Center. In 2014, he joined the Coast Guard Academy and his responsibilities have ranged from serving on various committees and teaching classes in literature and writing to managing the campus writing center, overseeing the annual Class of 1959 Writing and Speaking Contest, assisting with data collection and curriculum support, and offering faculty professional development opportunities, such as the Writing Across the Curriculum Certification Program. In addition to writing program development, his research focuses on print culture, periodicals, and literary history. He has served as the Secretary for the Research Society for American Periodicals and twice as a principal faculty member of the NEH Summer Institute, City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press.

Education

• Ph.D., English, University of Delaware, 2016
• M.A., English, University of Delaware, 2009
• M.A., English Education, University of Connecticut, 2007
• B.A., English, University of Connecticut, 2006
• B.S., English Education, University of Connecticut, 2006

Courses Taught

• College Composition
• Literary Magazines and Cultures of the Jazz Age
• Writing About Literature
• Composition and Speech

Selected Publications

• “From the Historical Avant-garde to Highbrow Coterie Modernism: The Little Review’s Wartime Advances and Retreats” published in Criticism 57.4 (2015)
• “’Scrappy and Unselective’: Rising Wartime Paper Costs and The Little Review” published in American Periodicals 26.2 (2016)
• “Evolving Wartime Print Cultures of the Anglo-American Modern Literary Renaissance” published in The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
• “Triggered: The Post-Traumatic Woman and Narratology in HBO’s Westworld” in Women in the Sci-Fi Western (2019)
• “Periodical Textuality: A Case for Contextualized Reading Practices in First-Year Writing,” Reading and Writing Instruction in the Twenty-First Century: Recovering and Transforming the Pedagogy of Robert Scholes (Utah State University Press 2021)
• “The Political Face of Modernism: Re-Mapping Modernism(s) across the Wartime Print Ecology,” The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine (Routledge 2022)
• “Prompting Engagement: Scaffolded Writing Designed to Enhance Student Learning in Fisheries Biology” (Journal of College Science Teaching, forthcoming)

Honors and Awards

• “Best Article of 2016-2017” awarded by the Research Society for American Periodicals
• “2018 Excellence in Scholarship Award” by the Center of Advanced Studies (USCGA)

Professional Affiliations

• NEH Summer Institute: “City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press from the Antebellum Era to the Digital Age”
• Secretary, Research Society for American Periodicals (2017-2023)