ENGLISH, THEATRE AND LANGUAGES

Nancy Warner Barrineau
Associate Professor of English

Office: Dial Humanities Building 116	Phone: 521-6429
Office Hours: TTH 11:00-12:00 a.m., MWF 12:30-1:20 p.m. and by appointment	Email: nancy.barrineau@uncp.edu
Address: Box 1510, Pembroke NC 28372

Research Interests

The psychology of the American conversion narrative
Twentieth-century American expatriate writers in Paris

Nineteenth-Century American literature

The American Novel

Woman's Fiction

American Periodicals
Theodore Dreiser

Courses

ENG 104 Developmental Composition
ENG 105 Composition I
ENG 210 African-American Literature
Eng 221 Major American Writers
Eng 402 Literary Criticism
ENG 343 The American Novel
ENG 565 American Writers in Paris

Publications

"Explanatory Notes." Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Ed. Simon Gatrell and Juliet Grindle. The World's Classic Series. Oxford UP, 1988. 385-410.

Review of Hardy's Influence on the Modern Novel by Peter Casagrande. With Simon Gatrell. Thomas Hardy Journal 4 (May 1988): 54-61.

"Brander Matthews." In Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 71: American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1880-1900. Ed. John W. Rathbun and Monica M. Grecu. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1988. 153-62.

Review of Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871-1907 by Richard Lingeman. American Literary Realism, Fall 1988: 91-92.

"Lillian Nordica and Sister Carrie." Dreiser Studies 20 (Fall 1989): 21-24.

"The Search for Ev'ry Month: An Update." Dreiser Studies 21(Spring 1990): 31-34.

"Explanatory Notes." The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. Ed. Simon Gatrell. The World's Classic Series. Oxford UP. 1990.

"The Second Issue of Ev'ry Month: Early Roots of Dreiser's Fiction." Dreiser Studies 22 (Spring 1991): 23-32.

"Dreiser and Balzac." American Literary Realism, 24 (Winter 1992): 70-80.

"Standard Bibliography Revised and Expanded." Review of Theodore Dreiser: A Primary Bibliography and Reference Guide, by Donald Pizer, Richard W. Dowell, and Frederic Rusch. Dreiser Studies 22 (Fall 1991): 42-44.

"Airmail Interview with Richard Lingeman." Dreiser Newsletter 1 (Fall 1991): 2-5.

"1990 Supplement to Theodore Dreiser: A Primary Bibliography and Reference Guide," with Frederic E. Rusch. Dreiser Studies 23 (Fall 1992): 28-37.

"Caroline Chesebro'." In Bibliography of United States Literature. Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1994.

"Recontextualizing Dreiser: Gender, Class, and Sexuality in Jennie Gerhardt." In Theodore Dreiser: Beyond Naturalism, ed. Miriam Gogol. New York UP, 1995.

"`Housework is Never Done: Domestic Labor in Jennie Gerhardt." In Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt: New Essays on the Restored Text, ed. James L.W. West, III. U of Penn P., 1995.

Review of V.F. Calverton: Radical in the American Grain, by Leonard Wilcox. American Literature, Summer 1994.

Theodore Dreiser's "Ev'ry Month", UGA Press, 1996.

Review of Ethical Dimensions of College and University Teaching: Understanding and Honoring the Special Relationship Between Teachers and Students. Ed. Linc. Fisch. New Directions for Teaching and Learning #66. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996. Effective Teaching 6 March 1999. Available at http://www.unca.edu/et/books97.html

"Theodore Dreiser and Martin Dressler: Tales of American Dreamers." Dreiser Studies 30.1 (Spring 1999): 35-45.

"Student-Faculty Dialogue Model." With Beth Bowser. ERIC ED451142. 1999.

"Encouraging Student Participation with Summary Notecards." Teaching Professor 2000.

"Self-Actualization and the Power of the Word in Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies. With H. Phillip Barrineau. Pembroke Magazine 33 (2000): 58-63.

"Time to Be a Student Again?" The Teaching Professor 14.7 (August/September 2000): 8. Reprinted in Teaching and Learning Exchange 8.2 (January 2001): 8.

"Shakespeare and Company." Pembroke Magazine 34 (2001). "Faculty-Student Dialogue Model," with Beth Bowser of the Carolina Colloquy for University Teaching, ERIC, 2002.

"Ev'ry Month." Entry in the Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia. In press.

Education

Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1988
Specialization in American Literature to 1900

Dissertation, "Journalism in the 1890s: The Origins of Theodore Dreiser's Fiction."

M.A., University of Kentucky, 1980

Thesis, "`To Make You See': Eudora Welty's Fiction and the Impressionist Tradition."

B.A., Asbury College, summa cum laude, 1979

Memberships

American Literature Association (ALA)
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)

International Dreiser Society

Theodore Dreiser Society of India, Advisory Board
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)

Honors

UNCP Teaching Award, 1996

Interests

kayaking and other water sports, reading and writing

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