Phillip Barrish's current research explores fictional representations of health-care systems in the United States from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His scholarship focuses on the emergence of literary realism in the United States between the Civil War and First World War. His research explores writing by authors including Edith Wharton, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Charles Chesnutt, and numerous others of the period.
Barrish is the author of the books "American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995" (Cambridge UP, 2001), "White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism" (Ohio State UP, 2005), and "The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism" (Cambridge UP, 2011).
Ph.D.
in English and American Literature, Cornell University, 1991
M.A.
in English and American Literature, Cornell University, 1987
B.A.
in English, The University of Pennsylvania, 1985
M.A.
in English, The University of Pennsylvania, 1985
Health humanities; literature and medicine; American Literature, 1860-1930; literary realism
Reviewer,
American Council of Learned Societies' Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2011 - 2012)
Member,
Undergraduate Programs Committee, The University of Texas at Austin (2010 - Present)
Member,
Assessment and Accreditation Committee, The University of Texas at Austin (2009 - Present)
Member,
Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee, The University of Texas at Austin (2008 - 2009)
Chair,
Committee to Review Texas Studies in Language and Literature, Department of English, UT Austin (2007 - 2008)
Chair,
American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association (2006)
Member,
Departmental Writing Committee, Department of English, UT Austin (2004 - 2006)
Co-Director,
English Course Transformation Project
Member,
Editorial Board, Horizons anglophones
Member,
Editorial Board, SAF: Studies in American Fiction
Reader,
Cambridge University Press
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The Ohio State University Press
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The University of Pennsylvania Press
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ALH: American Literary History
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American ????7 Literary Realism
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SAF: Studies in American Fiction
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Twentieth-Century Fiction
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Texas Studies in Language and Literature
American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995 (Cambridge UP, 2001);
White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism (Ohio State UP, 2005)
President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award
- The University of Texas at Austin (2015)
Fellow
- UT Humanities Institute (2009)
William O. Sutherland Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Sophomore Literature
- The University of Texas at Austin (2005)
Fellowship
- Cornell University Society for the Humanities (2002 - 2003)
