Holly Laird

Frances W. O’Hornett Chair of Literature at the University of Tulsa. She is author of Self and Sequence: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence (winner of an Outstanding Book award from Choice, the ACRL’s library journal) and of Women Coauthors (a study of collaborative writing from the Victorian period to 1999, 2016 Routledge) along with numerous essays on Victorian and modern literature, theory, and culture in books and journals such as PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, College Literature, and Victorian Poetry. Her editing projects include volume 7, 1880-1920, in Palgrave’s book series on The History of British Women's Writing (2016 Palgrave)and Co-editing the International D. H. Lawrence Conference special issue of D. H. Lawrence Studies (Korea). She is Co-Lead for Transcription of the Michael Field Diaries online. She served as editor of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature from 1988 to 2008, winning the CELJ’s (Council of Editors of Learned Journals) “Best Special Issue” and “Distinguished Editor” awards. She has also served as President of the CELJ and as President of the D. H. Lawrence Society of America. In 2018 she became the U.S. Co-Editor of Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford UP).