Daniela Caselli
Daniela Caselli's ongoing interests in gender and sexuality theories, queer theory, and feminism are reflected in herwork on modernist writer and artist Djuna Barnes (Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus: Improper Modernism, Ashgate forthcoming; 'Novices, Saints and Priestesses: the Unreadable Pleasures of Ladies Almanack', Textual Practice 20: 3, 2006, 463-489; afterword to the 2006 Carcanet edition of Ladies Almanack). She is also interested in feminism and cultural theory; she has written on the uses of the erotics in Jeanette Winterson and Audre Lorde, on gender and translation of poetry in the twentieth century, and has contributed toThe Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair, edited by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (Manchester University Press, 2006), with a chapter entitled: '"The Wives of Geniuses I Have Sat With" Body Hair, Genius and Modernity'.Work in progress includes an analysis of tropes of infantilisationin modernism and its links with gender politics.