Dr. Bruce Barnhart
Visiting Assistant Professor
Contact
Office: C5e Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-5687
Email: barnhab@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD University of California, Irvine
MA University of California, Irvine
BA Cornish College of the Arts
Areas of Interest
- Jazz and Literature
- 20th Century African American Literature
- 20th Century Novel
- Caribbean Poetry
- Theories of Temporality
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 111 Jazz and American Culture
ENG 175 Literature's Use and Abuse of History
ENG 175 Time in American Literature
ENG 382 Jazz and American Fiction, 1915-1965
Selected Publications
"Carolina Shout: James P. Johnson and the Performance of Temporality” Summer 2010 (33.3), Callaloo
"Prolepsis and Parabasis: Jazz and the Novel" – Novel, 2009.
“Between Immanence and Transcendence: Theorizing the Time of a Transformative Politics” New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Ed. Alfred Drake. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
“Chronopolitics, Race, and Sublimation: Ragtime and Symphonic Time in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” – Fall 2006 (40.3), African American Review