
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
Recent Publications
Barnard, J. L. (2020). The bison and the cow: Food, empire, extinction. American Quarterly, 72(2), 377-401. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2020.0023
Barnard, J. L. (2017). Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190663599.001.0001
Barnard, J. L. (2017). The cod and the whale: Melville in the time of extinction. American Literature, 89(4), 851-879. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257892
Barnard, J. L. (2014). Ancient History, American Time: Chesnutt’s Outsider Classicism and the Present Past. PMLA, 129(1), 71-86. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2014.129.1.71
Barnard, J. L. (2014). Ruins amidst ruins: Black classicism and the empire of slavery. American Literature, 86(2), 361-389. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2647027