Jennifer Barber, Assistant Professor

Jennifer Barber

Assistant Professor

 

Editor, Salamander: a magazine for poetry, fiction, & memoirs

 

 

Suffolk University
Department of English
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114
 

Office: Fenton 328
Telephone:  617-305-1919
Email: jbarber@suffolk.edu

Education
M.F.A. Creative Writing (Poetry), Columbia University, 1984
M.A. Early English Language and Literature, Oxford University, 1980
B.A. English Literature, Colby College, 1978

 

Research Interests
Contemporary poetry and fiction, 20th- and 21st-century literary journals, American literature

Selected Employment History
Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of Salamander, 1992-present
Assistant Professor, Suffolk University, 2005-2006
Visiting Assistant Professor, Suffolk University, 2004-2005
Visiting Assistant Professor, Wellesley College, 2000-2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bradford College, 1999-2000

 

Other Teaching and Publishing
Creative Writing, Harvard Extension School
Instructor of Creative Writing and Literature at the Brookline Adult & Community Education Program

Publishing jobs include editing, production editing, and copyediting for a variety of organizations and publishers in Boston and New York, among them Longman Inc., Houghton Mifflin, Columbia University Publications Office, Warren, Gorham & Lamont, and the Harvard University Art Museums.

 

Honors
Salamander has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, Bradford College, and the Brookline Council on the Arts and Humanities.

 

Jennifer Barber received a 2005 St. Botolph Club Foundation Grants-in-Aid award for poetry and poetry in translation and was the recipient of a 2004 Pushcart Prize; she received a Bruce Rossley New Voices Award in 1998.

 

Publications
Rigging the Wind, a poetry collection, received the 2002 Kore Press First Book Award and was published in 2003 by Kore Press.

 

Vendaval, a selection of poems, appeared in Take Three: 3, Agni New Poets Series (Graywolf Press, 1998).

 

Poems have been published in a number of literary journals, including Field, Georgia Review, Poetry, Fulcrum, Shenandoah, Partisan Review, Harvard Review, The Journal, Heliotrope, Massachusetts Review, and Orion.

 

Courses Taught
English 101 Freshman English I
English 102 Freshman English II
English 103 Advanced Freshman English
English 215 American Literature
English 372 The Literary Journal
English 375 Poetry Writing Workshop I
English 475 Poetry Workshop II

 

Links
Salamander home page: http://www.salamandermag.org/
Kore Press: http://www.korepress.org/