Faculty
Barbara Black
Professor and Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters
Phone: 518-580-5154
Email: bblack@skidmore.edu
Office: Palamountain Hall 305
Education:
- AB, Bryn Mawr College
- MA, PhD, U of Virginia
Teaching and research interests:
- Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Cultural Studies, with particular focus on global networks and urban studies
- History and Theory of the Novel
- Victorian Nonfiction and Poetry
- Decadence and Aestheticism
Courses taught:
- EN 105: American Dreams
- EN 105: Tribe?
- EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
- EN 211: Fiction
- EN 223: Women and Literature
- EN 228: Reading Dickens
- EN 228W, Scribner Seminar: Imagining the Future
- EN 229: Sensation
- EN 229: Afterlives
- EN 316: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
- EN 331: The Wild(e) Nineties
- EN 352: Victorian Literature and Culture
- EN 363: The Will to Power (the Literature of Empire)
- EN 363: Secrets, Shame, and Privacy in the Nineteenth Century
- EN 363: Globe and Planet: Time, Space, and the Victorians
- EN 363: Haunted
- EN 375: The Other Victorians
Selected publications:
- 鈥淭hinking Of and With Another: Caring for Schreiner in the Time of Covid,鈥� Global 19thCentury Studies (2024)
- "Museums," commissioned by Oxford University Press, Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature (2023)
- 鈥淟earning to Live with Ghosts,鈥� commissioned creative nonfiction piece for Gavialidae (January 2023)
- Olive Schreiner's , co-edited with Carly Nations and Anna Spydell (Broadview, 2020)
- ** (Ohio State UP, 2019)
- * (Ohio University Press, 2012; re-issued in paperback, 2014)
- (UP of Virginia, 2000)
- "A Sisterhood of Rage and Beauty: Dickens's Rosa Dartle, Miss Wade, and Madame Defarge," Dickens and Gender (Ashgate, 2012)
- "The Pursuit of Happiness," guest-edited issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Spring 2011
- "The Pleasure of Your Company in Late-Victorian Clubland,"Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2010
- "Walking again on the Wild(e) Side," Salmagundi, Winter 2008
** Reviewed in and won a .
* Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement.