Dorothea Barrett

Ph.D., Cambridge University; Cambridge, UK.

Phone number: +39-055-50131386
Fax: +39-055-5031385
Email address: dlbarret@syr.fi.it

Curriculum Vitae

Biographical Profile
Dorothea Barrett received her PhD from Cambridge University in 1987. She has taught at Beijing Normal University (China), Glasgow University (Scotland), and the University of Florence. She is the author of Vocation and Desire: George Eliot's Heroines (London: Routledge, 1989) and the editor of the George Eliot’s Romola (London: Penguin Classics, 1996). She has also published a variety of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century British and American literature and edited volumes of Oscar Wilde, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, and others. At SUF she teaches LIT 442 “From Dante to Calvino: Italian Literature in Translation” and ETS 301 “Creative Writing: Prose.” She also runs the Writing Center, offering tutorials to any SUF student who needs help with the final draft of an essay.

Her research interests are postmodern fiction and the representation of gender, sexuality, politics, religion, and imperialism in literature.