Biography
Daniela Caselli is senior lecturer in twentieth-century literature and culture in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.
"Improper Modernism, especially in its close examination of the intertextuality of Barnes's corpus, its serious archival research, and its close attention to previously under-examined texts, is a groundbreaking contribution to Barnes scholarship." --The European Legacy
"... a book of meticulous research and argument that draws deeply on archival sources, other Barnes and modernist scholarship, and feminist, queer, and psychoanalytic theory to make its case." --Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
"Caselli's reading of the first encounter with Robin Vote in Nightwood [...] is the most thorough, sophisticated, insightful, and ultimately convincing in all Barnes scholarship to date...Caselli's volume makes a crucial contribution to current scholarship, challenging the way marginal or anomalous writers are normalised in critical practice." --Modernism/Modernity
"Of the three [recent studies of Barnes and modernism reviewed here] Caselli's is by far the most ambitious and thorough in its treatment of Barnes. […] An exciting resource that will have a lasting and propulsive influence on Barnes scholarship.’ The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
