Barbara T. Gates (B.A. Northwestern, M.A.University of Delaware, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr) is Alumni Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies. She is author of Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (Princeton, 1988) and Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World (Chicago, 1998) and of numerous articles and reviews. Her edited books include: Critical Essays on Charlotte Bronte (G.K. Hall, 1990), The Journal of Emily Shore (Virginia, 1991), Natural Eloquence (Wisconsin, 1997) and a recently compiled (for Chicago) anthology of nature writing by Victorian and Edwardian women. Professor Gates has won a Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching, a Trabant Award for Promoting Equity, was CASE Professor of the Year for Delaware in 1995, and is the 2000 recipient of the AAUW Founders Distinguished Senior Scholar Award. She teaches courses in Victorian literature, poetry, women's studies, and environmental literature. |
