Barbara Black

Professor, tisch chair in arts and letters

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

Office: Palamountain 305
Phone: (518) 580-5154
Email: bblack@skidmore.edu

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:

• “Thinking Of and With Another: Caring for Schreiner in the Time of Covid,” Global 19^thCentury Studies (2024) 
• "Museums," commissioned by Oxford University Press, Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature (2023) 
• “Learning to Live with Ghosts,” commissioned creative nonfiction piece for Gavialidae (January 2023)
• Olive Schreiner's Dreams, co-edited with Carly Nations and Anna Spydell (Broadview, 2020)
• Hotel London** (Ohio State UP, 2019)
• A Room of His Own* (Ohio University Press, 2012; re-issued in paperback, 2014)
• On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums (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 The TLS and won a 2020 Book Award from Victorian Society for America.
*  Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement.