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John Levi Barnard

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

Recent Publications

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. (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

Barnard, J. L. (2017). The cod and the whale: Melville in the time of extinction. American Literature, 89(4), 851-879. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257892

Barnard, J. L. (2014). Ancient History, American Time: Chesnutt’s Outsider Classicism and the Present Past. PMLA, 129(1), 71-86. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2014.129.1.71

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