Barbara Will
Professor
Appointments
Vice Provost for Academic and International Affairs
A. and R. Newbury Professor of English
Area of Expertise
Literary Theory,
20th Century Anglophone Literature,
Cosmopolitanism,
French Fascism
Biography
I specialize in twentieth-century literature, culture, and history, with a comparative emphasis upon Anglo-American and French modernism, literary theory, and cultural studies.
As an administrator, I have been chair of the Presidential Steering Committee for Moving Dartmouth Forward, Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, and, since September 1, 2021, am the Vice Provost for Academic and International Affairs. Most recently, I was elected as a member of the Board of the University of the Arctic.
Education
B.A. Yale University
M.A. Bryn Mawr College
Ph.D. Duke University
Publications
Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope: New Essays on the Work of Cornel West. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of "Genius." Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.
"The American Red Cross and the Making of Ernest Hemingway," South Central Review 39:1 (Spring, 2022): 20-38
"The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein," Humanities, The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities 33:2 (March-April 2012).
"Thinking Globally? The Idea, Ideology, and Limits of Cosmopolitanism," Remate de Males (Brazil), and ABC (Romania) (February 2011).
"'And Then One Day There Was A War': Gertrude Stein, Children's Literature, and World War II," Children's Literature Association Quarterly 32:4 (November, 2007): 340-53.
"The Great Gatsby and the Obscene Word," College Literature 32.4 (Fall 2005): 125-44.
"Gertrude Stein and Zionism," Modern Fiction Studies 51: 2 (Summer 2005): 437-55.
"Lost in Translation: Stein's Vichy Collaboration," Modernism/modernity 11:4 (November 2004), 651-668.
"Gertrude Stein, Automatic Writing and the Mechanics of Genius," Forum for Modern Language Studies , 37:2 (2001) 1-9.
"The Nervous Origins of the American Western," American Literature 70:2 (June 1998): 293-316.
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