GREG BARNHISEL
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
DIRECTOR, FIRST-YEAR WRITING
Office: College Hall 637E
Telephone:
412-396-6432
Email: barnhiselg@duq.edu
Fall 2008 Office Hours:
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. In 2005, he was awarded an NEH Summer Stipend to fund research for his manuscript on how American artists, writers, and critics were recruited for use as anti-Soviet propaganda in the 1950s. He is also editing a collection of book-history articles about the Cold War period. 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
James Laughlin, New Directions Press, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
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.
“Hitch Your Wagon to a Star: The Square $ Series and Ezra Pound.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 92.3 (Sept. 1998): 273–95.
Contributing Editor for The Prentice Hall Anthology of American Literature, ed. Dean Rader and Jonathan Silverman. New York : Prentice Hall, 2006.
LINKS
National Council of Teachers of English
Modernist Studies Association
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
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