Dr. Sarah E. Barbour

Associate Professor of French

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Office: Greene 529

Phone: (336) 758-5486

E-mail: barbour@wfu.edu

 Education

• M.A., Ph.D., French Literature, Cornell University, 1985
• B.A., Spanish, Maryville College, 1972

Research Interests

• Narrative in French & Francophone literature & cinema
• Translation
• Autobiography & fictional autobiography

Courses Taught

• French 213: Introduction to Literature
• French 219: Composition and Review of Grammar
• French 221: Introduction to Translation
• French 360: Cinema & Society
• French 364: Prose Fiction

Honors and Awards

• WFU Faculty Research Leave, 2003-04

Representative Publications

• Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé, A Writer of her Own, Africa World Press/Red Sea Press, 2005
• “Maryse Condé’s Narrative Spectrum,” in Changing Currents: Anglophone, Francophone, Hispaniophone Literary and Cultural Criticism, ed. Emily Allen Williams, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005
• “Maryse Condé and Her Readers: Hesitating Between Irony and a Desire to be Serious in Moi, Tituba sorcière...,” Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Summer 2004
• “Diverse Patterns of Relationalities: Expanding Theories of Women’s Personal Narratives,” NWSA Journal , Summer 2002
• Nathalie Sarraute and the Feminist Reader: Identities in Process , Associated University Presses, 1993