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COURSE CATALOGUE
ENGLISH
English
417 Barnard Hall
Phone: 854-2116, 854-8971
Fax: 854-9498
www.barnard.edu/english
english@barnard.edu
DEPARTMENTAL INFORMATION
Professors: James Basker (Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History), Christopher Baswell (Ann Whitney Olin Professor), Mary Gordon (Millicent C. McIntosh Professor in English and Writing), Lisa Gordis, Achsah Guibbory, Kim Hall (Lucyle Hook Professor of English), Maire Jaanus, Peter Platt (Chair), Anne Lake Prescott (Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor), William Sharpe, Maura Spiegel (Term)
Associate Professors: John Beller (Visiting), Alice Elliot Dark (Visiting), Polly Devlin (Visiting), Ross Hamilton (Director of Film Concentration), Saskia Hamilton (Director of Women Poets at Barnard), Jennie Kassanoff, Ellen McLaughlin (Visiting), Richard Panek (Visiting), Christine Schutt (Visiting), Maxine Swann (Visiting)
Assistant Professors: Bashir Abu-Manneh, Catherine Barnett (Visiting), Nellie Hermann (Visiting), Julia Jordan (Visiting), Mary Beth Keane (Visiting), Monica Miller, Sean Singer (Visiting)
Senior Lecturers: Pamela Cobrin (Director, Writing Program; Co-Director, Speaking Program), Patricia Denison, Peggy Ellsberg, Cary Plotkin, Timea Szell (Director of Creative Writing), Margaret Vandenburg (Director of First-Year English)
Lecturers: Constance Brown, Mary Cregan, William Kenton (Visiting), Kate Levin (Visiting), John Pagano, Stephan Pedatella (Visiting), Aaron Schneider
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
The offering in English is designed to foster good writing, effective speaking, and heightened understanding of culturally significant texts. Students majoring in English are encouraged to develop their responsiveness to the literary imagination and their sensitivity to literary form through disciplined attention to language and to critical and scholarly methods.
For all students, including transfers, "a minimum of six semester courses must be completed while the student is in residence at Barnard".