pbarrish@mail.utexas.edu
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College: Liberal Arts

Home Department: English

Education: PhD, Cornell University

Research interests:Post-Civil War American literature and culture; whiteness studies and critical race theory; "masculinity" as a cultural construction; gender studies; psychoanalytic approaches to literary study; relationship between literature and liberalism

Courses taught:
E 338 American Literature: From 1865 to the Present-W

E 395M Literary
Whiteness Since the Civil War

Recent Publications:White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism (Ohio State University Press, forthcoming).