Barbara DiBernard

Professor

Degrees and institutions granting the degree

Wilson College, BA
State University of New York at Binghamton, MA
State University of New York at Binghamton, PhD

Professional areas of specialty

20th-Century U.S. Women's Literature, Lesbian Literature, Literature and Disability, Feminist Pedagogy.

Courses regularly taught

215E- Introduction to Women's Literature; 215J- 20th Century Women's Literature; 212 - Lesbian and Gay Literature; 814B- 20th-Century Lesbian Writers; WMNS 201 - Introduction to LGBT Studies

Selected Publications

• "Audre Lorde's Zami: A Portrait of an Artist as a Black Lesbian," Kenyon Review, fall 1991.
• "Being an I-Witness: My Life as a Lesbian Teacher." Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life. Ed. Nancy Owen Nelson. U of North TX, 1995.
• "Teaching What I'm Not: An Able-Bodied Woman Teaches Literature by Women with Disabilities." Teaching What You're Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education. Ed. Katherine Mayberry. NYU Press, 1996.
• "Crossing the Road, or, What's a Nice Lesbian Feminist Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" Reflections, spring 1998.