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Barbara Kernan, Ph.D. Emeritus

Barbara Kernan
Departments
  • Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Contact
Office Locations
  • Hired at UWEC in Women's Studies, 2001.
  • Taught and served in both Women's Studies and English, 2002-2011. Steering Committee, Women's Studies. Literature Committee, English.
  • Assistant Professorship, Women's Studies, 2011. Steering Committee, Curriculum Committee, Liaison Committee, Women's Studies.
  • Professor Emerita, 2014-present.
Teaching Interests
  • Women's literature
  • Women's liberation movement
  • African-American literature
  • Native American literature
  • Material Culture Study
  • Feminist Studies
  • Feminist Pedagogy
Responsibilities
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Alumni liaison
  • Program historian
Research and Creative Activities
  • Women's literature
  • Feminist Studies
  • Material Culture Study
  • Domestic Space
  • Edith Wharton's fiction and non-fiction, architectural design
Education
  • B.A., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (English and French)
  • M.A., Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College (English)
  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (American Literature) (Minor-Women's Studies and Art History)