Barbara Allen

• Graduate degree(s) and institutions:  M. A. English, Duke University • Based:  Main Campus • TTC courses:  ENG 100, 101, 102, 202, 205, 206, 208 • Area(s) of Specialization:  19th century British • Selected publications, awards, honors, or other recognitions: Honor Society: Phi Beta Kappa Fellowship Award, Duke University Conference Papers: "Poetry and Machinery in Shelley's 'Letter to Maria Gisborne'"; Southeastern Conference on 19th-Century Studies; UAB April 9-11, 1987 "Words Which Were Weapons: Shelley's Struggle with Aesthetic Language in 'The Revolt of Islam'"; The Carolinas Symposium on British Studies; NC State, October 24-25, 1987 Publications: "Poetry and Machinery in Shelley's 'Letter to Maria Gisborne.'" Nineteenth Century Studies  2 (1988):  53-61. Review of Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy by Deirdre David and The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ed.  Betty T. Bennett. Nineteenth Century Studies 3 (1989). • Service to the College:  Coordinator for Online/Upper Level English • Teaching philosophy:  I hope my students will learn to write so that others grant them the respect they deserve.