Deborah Barker
Associate Professor of English
Office: Bondurant C219Telephone: 662-915-7758
Email: dbarker@olemiss.edu
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Princeton University, English and American Literature (1991)
- M.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook, English and American Literature (1987)
- M.A., University of Oklahoma, Sociology (1980)
- B.A., University of Oklahoma, Sociology (1978)
TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Gender Theory and Criticism
- 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature: The Portrait of the Woman Artist. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 2000.
- Shakespeare and Gender: A History. Ed. (with Ivo Kamps) London: Verso, 1995.
- "The Riddle of the Sphinx: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The Story of Avis," Literature Interpretation Theory 9 (1998): 31-64.
- "Visual Markers: Art and Mass Media in Alice Walker's Meridian." African American Review. 31.3 (1997): 463-79.
- Articles on Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Doris Betts, Edith Wharton and Jessie Fauset