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Rita Barnard completed her undergraduate education at the Universities of Pretoria and Stellenbosch in South Africa. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 1990. Currently (Fall 2004), she is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Pennsylvania. She serves on the Executive Committees of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and the African Studies Center and is a member of the Council for University Scholars. Rita Barnard has also taught at Brown University and the University of the Western Cape. Her scholarly interests include twentieth-century American literature, postcolonial literature (especially African and South African literature), modernism, postmodernism, transnational cultural studies and globalization, literature and mass-mediated culture, and contemporary women writers. In 1999 she was honored as Professor of the Year and winner of the Alan J. Filreis Award for excellent teaching.
Rita Barnard's first book, The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance was published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, and her second book Apartheid Literature and the Politics of Place, is forthcoming from Oxford. Her published essays, which cover a wide range of subjects in the field of twentieth-century literature and culture, have appeared in journals like American Literature, American Literary History, Contemporary Literature, Interventions, Modern Fiction Studies, Postmodern ulture, and Research in African Literatures. She is a contributor to several edited collections, including Senses of Culture (Oxford University Press), Writing South Africa (Cambridge University Press) and Beautiful Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics (Kwela Press), Modernism and Colonialism (Duke University Press) and the Cambridge Companion to American Modernism, for which she wrote the chapter on modern American fiction. Rita Barnard serves on the editorial boards of Novel: A Forum on Fiction and Tydskrif vir Letterkunde/Journal of Literary Studies. Along with Grant Farred, she co-edited After the Thrill is Gone: Ten Years of Democracy in South Africa, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly schedule to appear in September 2004.
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