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Louise K. Barnett
Louise K. Barnett
Professor of English
Professor of American Studies
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Ruth Adams Building, 205C

Douglass, New Brunswick

Email: LK_Barnett@fandm.edu
Telephone: (732) 932-7562
Specialization
Nineteenth-Century American culture; Eighteenth-Century literature: Jonathan Swift
Biography

B.A., North Carolina; M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College

Professor Barnett's publications include: Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women (Oxford University Press, 2007); Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays (University of New Mexico Press, 2001); Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000); Touched by Fire: the Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated, 1995); Authority and Speech: Language, Society, and Self in the American Novel (University of Georgia Press, 1993); Swift's Poetic Worlds (Associated University Press, 1981); New World Journeys: Italian Intellectuals and the Experience of America (Greenwood Press, 1977); and The Ignoble Savage: American Literary Racism (Greenwood Press, 1976).

Publications
Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women Ungentlemanly Acts Touched by Fire Authority and Speech
Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught

American Literature

Native American Literature

The Vietnam War in American Literature & Culture

Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture

American Literature
 
 
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