GREG BARNHISEL
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ACTING DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN
Office: College Hall 637E
Telephone: 412.396.6432
Email: barnhiselg@duq.edu
Office Hours Spring 2012:
Monday 10:00 am-12:00 pm; Thursday 1:00-2:00 pm
EDUCATION
B.A., Reed College
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Barnhisel directs the writing program as well as teaching graduate and undergraduate classes in writing and literature. At Duquesne, he works to support writing instruction not just in the Core program but across the university: in the writing center, in the learning communities, through the writing-intensive classes in each college, through enforcement of academic integrity, and in the Core Curriculum. In the future, he hopes to start a Duquesne Writing House much like the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania.
His scholarly work focuses on the history of the book in the twentieth century and is grounded in archival research. His current book project, Cold War Modernists, examines how experimental art and literature were used as anti-Soviet propaganda in the 1950s. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harvard University Libraries, and the University of Texas Libraries for work on this project. Dr. Barnhisel feels that all graduate students should engage in archival research, and encourages them to make use of facilities such as the Houghton Library , Huntington Library, Beinecke Library, Lilly Library, Newberry Library, Harry Ransom Center, and the National Archives.
When he’s not in his office, you might see him in class, watching the Pirates at PNC Park, playing basketball in the Palumbo Center, or running on the Eliza Furnace "Jail Trail." If you’re lucky you might even see him with his sons Jack and Beck.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Connections. New York: Longman, forthcoming 2011.
Review: Brooker, Peter, and Andrew Thacker, eds. The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, vol. 1. To appear in American Periodicals, 2011.
Review: Kingsbury, Celia Malone. For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010). To appear in the Journal of American History, 2011.
"Pound and his Publishers." In Ezra Pound in Context, edited by Ira Nadel. New York: Cambridge UP, 2010.
"Cold Warriors of the Book: American Book Programs of the 1950s." Book History 13 (2010).
Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War. Co-editor (with Cathy Turner). University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
"Perspectives USA and the Cultural Cold War: Modernism in Service of the State." Modernism/Modernity 14.4 (Nov. 2007).
Media and Messages: Strategies and Readings in Public Rhetoric (Longman, 2005).
“Rhyme Without Reason: Why You Don’t Know Anything About Ezra Pound.” Mental Floss 2.4 (Sept. 2003): 22–5.
“Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: The Publisher as Spin Doctor.” Paideuma 29.3 (Winter 2000): 165–178.
“Marketing Modernism During the Great War.” In Mackaman and Mays, eds., World War One and the Cultures of Modernity. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 2000.
LINKS
National Council of Teachers of English
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading , and Publishing
American Association of Colleges & Universities
WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition
Partial Bibliography of the Writings of James Laughlin
