Barbara E. Will

Professor of English

Ph.D.,  Duke University

215 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755

barbara.will@dartmouth.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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

Books:

Unlikely Collaboration:  Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

• • Selected Publicity for Unlikely Collaboration
    • Christopher Benfey, "The Alibi of Ambiguity," The New Republic, June 28 2012
    • Michael Kimmelman, "Missionaries," The New York Review of Books, April 26 2012
    • Jerome Boyd Maunsell, "Eyes on Writing," Times Literary Supplement, April 13 2012
    • Barbara Will, "The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein," Humanities, March/April 2012
    • Gerald Sorin, "Loyalty to the Cause," Ha'aretz, December 20 2011
    • Eric Banks, "Wars They Have Seen," The Chronicle Review, October 23 2011

Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of "Genius." New York: Edinburgh UP/Columbia UP, 2000.

Articles:

"Thinking Globally? The Idea, Ideology, and Limits of Cosmopolitanism," Remate de Males (Brazil), andABC (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.
"The Nervous Origins of the American Western," in American Literature 70:2 (June 1998): 293-316.