DR. BARBARA LANING 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 and publishing history of an eighteenth-century English novel, Tobias Smollett’s Sir Launcelot Greaves.  She served as textual editor for a scholarly edition of that novel (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 periodicals publishing.  Recently she has been working on Smollett attributions.

Fitzpatrick’s teaching areas are Eighteenth-Century English Literature, The Novel, Irish Fiction, Book and Periodical History, and Textual Bibliography.  She has taught at every level, from freshman through graduate, and has developed online versions of five of her classroom courses—the Survey of English Literature I, Later Eighteenth-Century Literature, The Eighteenth-Century Novel, From Tears to Fears: The Novel of Sensibility and the Gothic, and Irish Fiction.  Having served as the English Department’s Coordinator of Graduate Studies, she has now returned to the classroom full time.  She enjoys introducing students of all levels to British Literature and initiating graduate students into the dual callings of teaching and research.  She has had several graduate research assistants, and she regularly teaches the 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 rummaging through old bookshops and walking battlefields on the same trip.

Selected recent publications:

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].

“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.

Phone Number:
(504) 280-6475

Email Dr. Fitzpatrick@
bfitzpat@uno.edu

Address: Liberal Arts Building 361

Office Hours:

M 3:00-4:30pm
TW 8:00-9:30am
T 10:00am-12:00pm

Courses for Fall 2009:

Engl 2152-002:
Technical Writing
MW 1:30-2:45pm

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

Engl 4391-476:
Studies in Irish Literature: Irish Fiction
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