Barbara Black
Professor and Associate Chair

AB, Bryn Mawr College
MA, PhD, U of Virginia 

Office: Palamountain 316
Phone:(518) 580-5154
Email: bblack@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Victorian Literature and Culture, especially Empire and Urbanism in the Nineteenth Century
• History and Theory of the Novel
• Victorian Non-Fiction Prose
• Nineteenth-Century Poetry
• Cultural Studies
• Oscar Wilde
• Charles Dickens
• the British Fin de Siecle

Courses Taught:

• Scribner Seminar, EN 105: American Dreams
• EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
• EN 228: Reading Dickens
• EN 211: Fiction
• EN 316: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
• EN 352: Victorian Literature and Culture
• EN 363: The Wild(e) Nineties
• EN 363: The Will to Power (the Literature of Empire)

Selected Publications:

• A Room of His Own (Ohio University Press, 2012)
  
• On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums (UP of Virginia, 2000)
• "The Pleasure of Your Company in Late-Victorian Clubland," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2010
• "Walking again on the Wild(e) Side," Salmagundi, Winter 2008
• "An Empire's Great Expectations:  Museums in Imperialist Boy Fiction," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 1999
• "A Sisterhood of Rage and Beauty:  Dickens's Rosa Dartle, Miss Wade, and Madame Defarge," The Dickens Studies Annual, 1998
• "Fugitive Articulation of an All-Obliterated Tongue:  Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and the Politics of Collecting," In-between, September 1996
• "'The works on the wall must take their chance':  A Poetics of Acquisition," Victorian Poetry, Spring 1994