Barbara Will
A. and R. Newbury Professor of EnglishAssociate Dean for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
I specialize in twentieth-century literature, culture, and history, with a comparative emphasis upon Anglo-American and French modernism.
As an administrator, I have been chair of the Presidential Steering Committee for Moving Dartmouth Forward (http://forward.dartmouth.edu), and, since July 1, 2015, am the Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities at Dartmouth.
Selected Publications
Race Matters in the 21st Century: Essays on the Work of Cornel West (under submission)
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of “Genius,” Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.
“The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein,” Humanities, The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities 33:2 (March-April 2012).
"Thinking Globally? The Idea, Ideology, and Limits of Cosmopolitanism," Remate de Males (Brazil), and ABC (Romania) (February 2011).
"'And Then One Day There Was A War': Gertrude Stein, Children's Literature, and World War II," Children's Literature Association Quarterly 32:4 (November, 2007): 340-53.
"The Great Gatsby and the Obscene Word," College Literature 32.4 (Fall 2005): 125-44.
"Gertrude Stein and Zionism," Modern Fiction Studies 51: 2 (Summer 2005): 437-55.
"Lost in Translation: Stein's Vichy Collaboration," Modernism/modernity 11:4 (November 2004), 651-668.
“Gertrude Stein, Automatic Writing and the Mechanics of Genius,” Forum for Modern Language Studies , 37:2 (2001) 1-9.
"The Nervous Origins of the American Western," American Literature 70:2 (June 1998): 293-316.