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Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Duke University
207 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Curriculum
vitae
barbara.will@dartmouth.edu
My interests are in American literature, modernism and postmodernism, and
contemporary literary and feminist theory. I teach core courses in those
subjects as well as advanced seminars on topics ranging from "American Writers
Between the World Wars" to Virginia Woolf/Gertrude Stein ("Woolfenstein").
Selected Publications
- "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, Modernism, and the Problem of "Genius." Edinburgh
UP/Columbia UP, 2000.
- "The Nervous Origins of the American Western," in American
Literature 70:2 (June 1998): 293-316.
- "Nervous Systems / 1880-1915," in American Bodies: Cultural Histories
of the Physique, ed. Tim Armstrong (NY: NYU Press, 1997): 86-100.
- "Pound's Feminine Other: A Reading of Canto XXIX." Paideuma 19
(1990): 139-142.
Book in progress
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy
Dilemma
A study of the intellectual "collaboration" between Gertrude Stein and
Bernard Faÿ, director of the Bibliothèque Nationale under the collaborationist
Vichy government and chief protector of Stein's interests in France during
World War II. From the late 1920s-40s Stein and Faÿ shared a worldview marked
by aesthetic radicalism and political conservatism, culminating in Stein's
agreement in 1941, at the suggestion of Faÿ, to translate the speeches of
Marshal Philippe Pétain into English. I read the Stein-Faÿ relationship as a
case study through which to raise larger theoretical questions: about the role
of prominent intellectuals in wartime France; about the place of America in the
Vichy imagination; about the libidinal promise or threat of fascist ideology
for homo/hetero- sexuality; and most importantly, about the intersection of
modernism and fascism.
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