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Stephen M. Barber, PhD
Office: 144A Swan Hall
Phone: 401-874-5931
E-Mail: engchair@gmail.com
Office Hours: Thur 2:00 - 4:00 pm and by appt.
Barber’s work (which was awarded the URI research award in 2003) bears principally on aesthetics, political subjectivity, and ethical philosophy in the context of European fascism and war during the 1930s, 1970s, and 1980s. He seeks to formulate certain questions about the interactions between, the interpretations of, artistic and philosophic achievements on the one hand and the politics of the twentieth century on the other. Currently, Barber is completing a manuscript, provisionally titled Exits: Virginia Woolf, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and the Philosophy of Freedom, which concerns the final decade of each thinker, when writing and life as a philosophical mode became one, and when each evolved ("at the hour of midnight") their radical critiques of war and portraits of ethics. A version of one of its chapters is forthcoming this year in Dianna Taylor and Karen Vintges’ collection Feminism and the Final Foucault. Barber is also the co-editor of Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory (Routledge, 2002).
At the undergraduate level, Barber offers courses on British and European modern culture and literature, Victorian prose and poetry, critical and literary theory, and comparative literature. He has taught graduate seminars on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the Victorian novel, Aestheticism, modernism, Deleuze, and Foucault.
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