Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

Recent Publications

Barnard, J. L. (2022). Empire. In American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860 (pp. 37-53). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108566872-005

Levi Barnard, J. (2022). Colonization to Climate Change: American Literature and a Planet on Fire. In L. Bow, & R. Castronovo (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature (pp. 40-58). (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198824039.013.12

Barnard, J. L. (2021). Europe, Mexico, and the African American 1848. In African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850 (pp. 268-289). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108386067.018

Barnard, J. L. (2020). The bison and the cow: Food, empire, extinction. American Quarterly, 72(2), 377-401. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2020.0023

Barnard, J. L. (2017). Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190663599.001.0001

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