Barbara Fisher CV
COLLEGE TEACHING
1983-1998 Eugene Lang College of The New School for Social Research,
Member of the Faculty
1975-1983 The New School for Social Research, Member of the Faculty
1979-1980 Barnard College, Instructor
1973-1974 Lehman College of the City University of New York, Adjunct Lecturer
1971-1973 Columbia University, Preceptor
LECTURING
1987-1998 Lecturer at the Colony Club in New York City on English, French and Russian 19th-Century novelists
Lecture to the Kipling Society, London, Sept. 7, 2011 “Trix: Kipling’s Neglected Sister”
JOURNALISM
1996-2011 SHORT TAKES book review column every other week in the Sunday edition of The Boston Globe
*Reviewed literary fiction and non-fiction in more than 500 columns. More than 1500 books reviewed.
*Selected the books for review
1983-present Book reviews for The Saturday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Ms. Magazine, The Nation, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, New York Newsday, People Magazine.
*More than fifty reviews for The New York Times Book Review *More than twenty-five reviews for The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Articles and Author Interviews for The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Sunday Ideas Section
WRITING
2005-present Biography, Trix: The Other Kipling
Proposal short-listed for the Tony Lothian Prize, 2011
“Trix:The Other Kipling,” Kipling Journal, Sept., 2014 Biography of literary and cultural critic, Lionel Trilling
In progress, proposal won BIO’s Hazel Rowley Prize, 2019
ACADEMIC TRAINING
1976 Columbia University, Ph.D. in English Literature
1969 Columbia University, M.A. in English Literature
1968 Bennington College, B.A.
MEMBERSHIPS
National Book Critics Circle
Women Writing Women’s Lives, Steering Committee
The Kipling Society
Biography Seminar of New York University
BIO: Biographers International OrganizationThe Century Association
Meet Barbsie
Barbara Fisher graduated from Bennington College with a B.A. and received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English Literature from Columbia University. For many years, she taught 18th and 19th Century English Literature, mostly at Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate college of the New School University in New York City. She has also been a book reviewer for major U.S. newspapers including the The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, for which she wrote a book column every other Sunday for fifteen years. This is her first book as an independent scholar. She is currently working on a biography of mid-20th Century cultural and literary critic Lionel Trilling.