Barbara Green
Associate Professor
Specialty
Twentieth-century British literature, gender studies, autobiography
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Profile
Barbara Green’s expertise is in twentieth-century British literature, feminist criticism, and autobiography. She is working on the function of self-representation in feminist theory and practice. Bringing theories of female spectacularity to readings of women's confessional gestures, she examines the polemical writings generated by the British suffrage movement, especially the writings of Lady Constance Lytton and Teresa Billington-Greig. She is also interested in the role of gender in modern and postmodern aesthetics. She is the author of Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage. She teaches courses in British modernism, feminist studies, and autobiography studies.
Selected Publications
“The New Woman’s Appetite for ‘Riotous Living’: Rebecca West, Modernist Feminism, and the Everyday.” In Women’s Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945, edited by Ann L. Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis, 221-36. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and Sites of Suffrage, 1905-1938. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Contact Information
226 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-7010
green.15@nd.edu