Rate My Professor Barbara Green

Barbara Green is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in Literature, where she has held faculty positions since 1991. She advanced from Assistant Professor (1991-1997) to Associate Professor (1997-2019) and full Professor (2019-present). Green earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1991 and her B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1983. She maintains a concurrent faculty appointment in Gender Studies since 2014 and has directed the Gender Studies Program, first from 1998 to 2001 and again from 2021. Her career includes significant administrative and editorial roles, such as book review editor for the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies (2009-2016) and board member for Modernist Networks (2011-present).

Green's research focuses on modern feminist print culture and periodical studies, women’s writing, life writing, gender and modernism/modernity, suffrage studies, middlebrow culture, and autobiography. Key publications include her monograph Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), which examines feminist periodicals' engagement with everyday life; Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, 1905-1938 (St. Martin’s Press, 1997); and co-edited volume Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) with Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, and Fiona Hackney. Selected articles feature “Remembering the Suffragette for Interwar Feminism: Vera Brittain’s Honourable Estate” (Women: A Cultural Review, 2023), “Virginia Woolf and Suffrage” (The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf, 2021), “Documentary Feminism: Evelyn Sharp, the Women’s Pages, and the Manchester Guardian” (2017), and “Complaints of Everyday Life: Feminist Periodical Culture and Correspondence Columns in the Woman Worker and the Freewoman” (Modernism/modernity, 2012). She co-edited the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies (2015-2022) and serves as Co-President of The Society of the Space Between, Literature and Culture Between the Wars. Green teaches courses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century British literature, gender and sexuality, Gender, Print Culture and Modernity, Perspectives on Gender: Theory and Practice, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury, and Women and Magazines. She contributed as core collaborator to the online exhibition Making Modern Women: Women’s Magazines in Interwar Britain (2021).