Dr Laura Rattray

University of Glasgow

Laura Rattray is Reader in American Literature at the University of Glasgow and served as Director of its Centre for American Studies. She specialises in modern American literature and culture and has published widely on early twentieth-century American fiction. Books include The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald (co-editor with Linda Wagner-Martin), Twenty-First-Century Readings of Tender Is the Night (co-editor with William Blazek), The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton, and Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction. She is currently completing a book on US Fictions of the Great Depression.