Phillip J Barrish
Affiliate Faculty — Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University
Tony Hilfer Professor of American and British Literature and the Department of Medical Education

Contact
- E-mail: pbarrish@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-7840
- Office: PAR 130, PAR 108
- Campus Mail Code: B5000
Interests
American Literature 1870-1930, medicine and literature, gender studies, "masculinity" as a cultural construction, whiteness studies, relationship between literature and liberalism
Biography
Phillip Barrish is the author of American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995 (Cambridge UP, 2001), White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism (Ohio State UP, 2005), and The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism (Cambridge UP, 2011). His current research explores fictional representations of health-care systems in the United States from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Courses
E 372M • American Realism-Wb
36250 • Spring 2021
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
Wr
E 316M • American Literature-Wb
34620-34775 • Fall 2020
Internet; Synchronous
CD
HU
LAH 350 • Hlth/Hlth Care/Humanities
30260 • Spring 2020
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CBA 4.340
E 316M • American Literature
34780-34815 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.306
CD
HU
E 324 • Literature And Medicine
35470 • Spring 2019
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM PAR 105
E
E 316M • American Literature
35580-35625 • Fall 2018
Meets MW 10:00AM-11:30AM ART 1.102
CD
HU
E 324 • Literature And Medicine
34930 • Spring 2018
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM PAR 105
E
E 395M • Hlth/Med/Am Lit Snc Civ War
35875 • Fall 2017
Meets MW 10:00AM-11:30AM PAR 214
E 370W • Amer Literary Masculinities
35575 • Spring 2017
Meets MWF 12:00PM-1:00PM MEZ 1.208
Wr
(also listed as WGS 345)
E 316M • American Literature
35010-35025 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM PAR 201
CDWr
HU
E F316M • American Literature
81865 • Summer 2016
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM CLA 0.112
CD
E 316M • American Literature
34150-34165 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM WEL 2.312
CDWr
E 349S • James And Wharton
34530 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM CAL 200
Wr
E 370W • Amer Literary Masculinities
34890 • Spring 2015
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM GAR 0.120
Wr
(also listed as WGS 345)
E F316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
83140 • Summer 2014
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM PAR 201
HU
E 395M • American Realism
36355 • Spring 2014
Meets MW 11:00AM-12:30PM CAL 200
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
35225-35270 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM FAC 21
HU
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
34840-34885 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM WCH 1.120
HU
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
34895-34940 • Fall 2012
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM SAC 1.402
HU
E 370W • Amer Literary Masculinities
35435 • Spring 2012
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM PAR 204
Wr
(also listed as WGS 345)
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
34735-34751 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WEL 3.502
HU
E 395M • Amer Literary Masculinities
35700 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MEZ 1.104
E S370W • Lit/Film: Gend/Rlsm/Gothic-Eng
83825 • Summer 2011
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
34990-35035 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM WCH 1.120
HU
E 349S • James And Wharton
34675 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM GAR 0.128
Wr
E 338 • Amer Lit: From 1865 To Pres-W
34785 • Spring 2010
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 204
C2
E 372M • American Realism-W
34985 • Spring 2010
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM PAR 204
C2
WGS 345 • American Realism-W
49865 • Fall 2007
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM PAR 306
C2
WGS 345 • American Realism-W
44525 • Spring 2004
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM PAR 204
C2
Publications
The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism (The Ohio State University Press, 2005).
American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige 1880-1995 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
"The Sticky Web of Medical Professionalism: Health Care Reform and Robert Herrick’s The Web of Life, "American Literature (forthcoming).
"James, Realism, Naturalism," in David McWhirter, ed., Henry James in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
"The Secret Joys of Antiracist Pedagogy: Huckleberry Finn in the Classroom," American Imago: Studies in Psychoanalysis and Culture 59:2 (Summer 2002): 117-40.
"Critical Presentism." Romantic Circles Praxis Series. Special Issue on Romanticism and Contemporary Culture (February 2002, Online): http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/.
"The Awakening’s Signifying 'Mexicanist' Presence." Studies in American Fiction 28.1 (Spring 2000): 65-76.
"The Remarrying Woman as Symptom: Exchange, Male Hysteria, and The Custom of the Country." American Literary Realism 27.2 (Winter 1995): 1-19.
"'The Genuine Article': Ethnicity, Capital, and The Rise of David Levinsky." American Literary History 5.4 (Winter 1993): 643-62.