DR. BARBARA L. FITZPATRICK

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Duke University, 1987

A native of Akron, Ohio, Barbara Fitzpatrick graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in 1972 with a major in Biology. In 1977 she earned an M.A. in English Literature at the University of South Alabama and went on to complete her Ph.D. in English Literature at Duke University in 1987. From 1985 to 1989 she taught part time at the University of South Alabama. She accepted a full time position in the UNO English Department in 1989.

Fitzpatrick’s doctoral dissertation was a study of the text of an eighteenth-century English novel, Tobias Smollett’s Sir Launcelot Greaves. She served as textual editor for a scholarly edition of that novel (University of Georgia Press, 2002) while also pursuing research in eighteenth-century British book trade history. She participated in an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers in London in 1992, and in 2003 she was awarded a national prize for an article on eighteenth-century London magazine publishing. Recently she has been working in nineteenth-century American book history, with an emphasis on Southern publishing.

Fitzpatrick’s teaching areas are Eighteenth-Century English Literature, The Novel, Book and Periodical History, and Textual Bibliography. She has taught at every level, from freshman through graduate, and has developed online versions of four of her classroom courses—the Survey of English Literature II, Later Eighteenth-Century Literature, Irish Fiction, and The Novel of Sensibility & The Gothic.

Having served as the English Department’s Coordinator of Graduate Studies, she enjoys initiating graduate students into the dual callings of teaching and research. She has had several graduate research assistants and she regularly teaches Introduction to Graduate Studies.

Outside the classroom and the archives, Fitzpatrick reads, gardens, and travels. She collects old books and visits American Civil War battlefields, often ransacking old bookstores and walking battlefields on the same trip.

Selected Publications :

“Rivington family (per. c.1710-c.1960.)” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. 47:56-62.

Scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1761-62), Introduction and Annotations by Robert Folkenflik, Text edited by Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick, in The Works of Tobias Smollett (Athens: U of Georgia P, 2002).

“Physical Evidence for John Coote’s Eighteenth-Century Periodical Proprietorships: The Examples of Coote’s Royal Magazine (1759-71) and Smollett’s British Magazine (1760-67),” Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, n.s. 11 (2000): 211-58 [this article won the first Mitchell Prize, American Bibliographical Society, January 2003].

Phone Number:
(504) 280-6135

Email Dr. Fitzpatrick@
bfitzpat@uno.edu

Address: Liberal Arts Building 109

Office Hours:

T 9:00am-12:00pm
W 9:00-10:00am;
12:30-1:30pm

Courses for Fall 2007:

Engl 1157-025:
Freshman Composition
MW 2:00-3:15pm

Engl 2341-001:
Survey of British Literature I
MW 11:00am-12:15pm

Engl 6280-001:
Introduction to Graduate Studies
MW 3:30-4:45pm