Dr. Barbara Burch
Pawling Hall 112
Telephone: 8130
e-mail: bburch@georgetowncollege.edu

Associate Professor and Chair

Department of English

B.A., M.A., University of Kentucky               

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Coach, Georgetown College Academic Team

Faculty Adviser, College Democrats

Other Service 2006-2007: Admissions Committee (Chair), Honors Adviser, Phi Beta Kappa Committee, Committee on Committees

Classes Taught: English Composition I and II; British Literature Survey I and II; Romantic Literature ; Victorian Literature ; Modern British Literature; Anglo-Irish Literature

Current Teaching and Research Areas: The Invention of Tradition in Browning, Yeats and Pound; Robert Browning’s Later Poetry;  Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations of Pope; Thomas Hardy's Poetry; James Joyce; Contemporary Irish Poetry; The English Novel.

Dr. Burch was the 1999 recipient of the John Walker Manning Distinguished Mentor and Teacher Award.  In 1994 and 2001, she was named Favorite Professor by the Alpha Lambda Delta honorary. In Spring of 2005, she was recognized as Outstanding Academic Adviser. She was the recipient of the Cawthorne Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006.  Dr. Burch is happy to hear from former students. Please email Barbara_Burch@georgetowncollege.edu  (Michael Bradley call Home!)