Barbara Green
Professor
Concurrent Faculty, Gender Studies
Areas of study
- British - 20th and 21st
- Gender and Sexuality
Education
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1991
B.A. University of Chicago, 1983
Research and teaching interests
Twentieth-Century Women’s Literature, Modern Periodical Studies, Feminist Print Culture, Gender and Modernism/Modernity, Suffrage Studies, Middlebrow Culture, Autobiography/Life-Writing.
Biography
Barbara Green is Professor of English and Director of Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research and teaching focus on modern feminist print culture and periodical studies, women’s writing, life writing, and studies of gender and modernity. She is the author of Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture (2017), Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, 1905-1938 (1997), and she is the co-editor of Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939 (2017). She was the co-editor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies from 2015 through 2022 (Penn State University Press). She is currently the Co-President of The Society of the Space Between, Literature and Culture Between the Wars.
Representative publications
Books:
- Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture (Palgrave Macmillan).
- Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, 1905-1938 (St. Martin's Press).
Edited Collection:
- Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period, edited by Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green, Fiona Hackney (Edinburgh University Press).
Select Articles:
- “Virginia Woolf and Suffrage” in The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf, edited by Anne Fernald (Oxford University Press).
- “Complaints of Everyday Life: Feminist Periodical Culture and Correspondence Columns in the Woman Worker and the Freewoman.” Modernism/Modernity 19.3 (September 2012): 461-485.
