Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Sarah Barnsley

BA (Hons) American and English Literature, University of East Anglia, 1997
MA Applied Linguistics, King’s College, University of London, 2001
PhD English, Goldsmiths College, University  of London, 2006
Visiting Tutor at Goldsmiths 2003-2010; appointed to External Programme 2005; appointed to ECL 2010

Teaching

For the External Programme (University of London), I teach e-seminars and summer school classes for students taking units in Approaches to Text, Explorations 2, Moderns, and 19^th/Modern American Literature. 

For the Internal Programme (Goldsmiths),  I teach/have taught the following courses:  Approaches to Text and The Short Story (level 1); Further Studies in American Literature and Culture (level 2);  The Emergence of Modern America 1890-1940 (level 3);  and Re-writing Sexualities (MA option).  I am convenor for Modern American Fiction (level 3).

Previous teaching has included Creative Writing (at Roehampton University) and Humanities (at the Open University).

Professional activities

• Co-organiser, “Queer, The Space”, academic-artistic collaborative project, Centre for Creative Collaboration, 2011-2012
• Co-organiser, Mary Barnard Centenary, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, June 2011
• H.D. Fellow in American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2007-2008
• Member of Modern Language Association
• Member of the British Association for American Studies

Research interests

American literature, Mary Barnard, poetry and poetics, modernism, gender and queer theory.

Selected publications

Essays in refereed journals

• “Mary Barnard’s ‘North Window’:  Imagism and the Pacific Northwest,’” Western American Literature, 44.3 (Fall 2009), 251-74. 
• “’Sand is the beginning and the end of our dominion’:  Mary Barnard, H.D. and Imagism,” Paideuma:  Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 36 (2007-2009; published 2010):  47-74.

Contributions to dictionaries / encyclopedias

• “Mary Barnard,” The Literary Encyclopedia, http://www.litencyc.com/, 4 February 2008 [640 words]
• Forthcoming 2010: “Emily Dickinson’s poetry,” in Jennifer McClinton-Temple ed., Encyclopedia of General Themes in Literature, (New York:  Facts on File Inc, 2010) [2,500 words]
• Forthcoming 2010: “T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’,” in Jennifer McClinton-Temple ed., Encyclopedia of General Themes in Literature, (New York:  Facts on File Inc, 2010)  [2,400 words]
• Forthcoming 2011:  “Mary Barnard,” Dictionnaire des Créatrices, ed. Adelaide Russo, (Paris:  Éditions des femmes)

Under review

• Book:  “A bright particular excellence”:  Mary Barnard, American Imagist
• Essay:  “’I thought I had sort of fallen down through the cracks’:  Mary Barnard, William Carlos Williams, and the challenge of New Criticism”

Poetry

• Poems in Envoi, Magma, Mslexia, Obsessed with Pipework, Rain Dog, anthologies by the Cinnamon Press, and on www.poetrypf.co.uk