FEATURED AUTHOR
Dorothea Barrett
I received my PhD from Cambridge University 1987. Since 1991, I have been living in Florence with my husband and son, teaching literature and writing at two American study-abroad programs: Syracuse and NYU. I am the author of Vocation and Desire: George Eliot's Heroines and various articles, and have edited works by George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, E. M. Forster, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, and others.
Subjects: Literature
Biography
I began teaching as a TA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, while completing a Master of Fine Arts in Writing in 1980. Since then, I have taught at Beijing Normal University, Glasgow University, and the University of Florence.Education
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PhD Cambridge 1987
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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My teaching and research interests are gender, sexuality, politics, religion, language, Italian literature, postmodernism, modernism, the Victorian novel, and the literature of the two world wars.
Personal Interests
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Reading fiction, cooking, and Scrabble.
Books
Articles
"Graham Greene"
Published: Oct 16, 2015 by The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Authors: Dorothea Barrett
Subjects:
Literature
The essay explores the represation of religion, sexuality, and politics in the works of Graham Greene.