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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Teaching areas

English Renaissance Literature and Culture

Research areas

Shakespeare Studies; Early Modern Race Studies; History and Theory of Education; Postcolonial Studies; Pro-Feminist Masculinity Studies; Personal/Presentist Historicism

Education

PhD, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011
MA, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
BA, English, University of Virginia, 1994

Professional experience

Associate Professor Of English, English, American University of Sharjah, 2024 - Present
Assistant Professor Of English, English, American University of Sharjah, 2021 - 2024
Assistant Professor Of English, Department Of English, Old Dominion University, VA, United States, 2019 - 2021
Lecturer (assistant Professor) In Literatures In English, Department Of Literary, Cultural And Communication Studies, University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, 2018 - 2019
Assistant Professor Of English, Department Of English, Clark University, MA, United States, 2014 - 2018
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department Of English, State University of New York at Oswego, NY, United States, 2011 - 2014
Teaching Fellow, English, Colgate University, New York, United States, 2008 - 2010
English Teacher, United States Department Of Education, Upward Bound College Preparatory Academy at the University of Illinois, Illinois, United States, 2002 - 2005
Adjunct Lecturer, Department Of English, City University of New York at Lehman College, NY, United States, 1997 - 1999

Contact

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Dr. Eric De Barros

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Eric L. De Barros's research centers on the politics of embodied subjectivity in early modern literary and educational texts. He has authored several articles on the topic, and his main book project, “Shakespeare and the Pedagogy of Sexual Violence: Race, Class, and the Redefinition of Masculinity,” will endeavor to re-think Shakespeare as an ethically oriented educational theorist with much to teach us about how education reflects, shapes, and interrogates cultural norms. In that spirit, he has developed and taught a range of cross-historical, politically responsive courses over a period of twenty years at several institutions of higher learning.

Publications

Eric De Barros. “Who Shot Romeo? And How Can We Stop the Bleeding?: Urban Shakespeare, White People, and Education Beyond the Neoliberal Nightmare", 2024
Eric De Barros. "Hamlet and the Education of the White Self”, 2023
Eric De Barros. “‘My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls’: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, ‘Black’ Hair, and the Revenge of Post-Colonial Education”, College Literature: A Journal Of Critical Literary Studies, 2022
Eric De Barros. “‘Shakespeare’ on his lips: Dreaming of the Shakespeare Center for Radical Thought and Transformative Action”, 2019
Eric De Barros. “Teacher Trouble: Performing Race in the Majority-White Shakespeare Classroom.”, Journal Of American Studies, 2019
Eric De Barros. “The Gatekeeping Politics of ‘Good’ Historicism: Early Modern Orientalism and ‘The Diary of Master Thomas Dallam’.”, College Literature: A Journal Of Critical Literary Studies, 2016
Eric De Barros. “The Labours of Hercules: Ethical Embodiment and an Erasmian Justification for Higher Education”, Changing English: Studies In Culture And Education, 2014
Eric De Barros. "(Ig)noble Lies: Personal Historicism and Richard Mulcaster’s Positions Concerning the [Training] Up of Children (1581)", Changing English: Studies In Culture And Education, 2013
Eric De Barros. “‘Nothing but sit, and sit, and eat, and eat’: The Cantankerous Teacher in The Taming of the Shrew”, Quidditas, 2013

Conference Presentations

"Rethinking the Whiteness of Shakespeare and the Humanities for the Twenty-First Century.”, Modern Language Association (mla) Convention, 2024
“[P]oisoning the blood of our country”: The Geography of Inclusive Racism in Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling, Shakespeare Association Of America Convention, 2024
“Histories of Resistance”, Arizona Center For Medieval And Renaissance Studies, 2024
“Zoom Flight: Neoliberal Racism and the (Post-)Pandemic Shakespeare Classroom”, Shakespeare Association Of America Convention, 2023
“Who Shot Romeo? And How Can We Stop the Bleeding?: Shakespeare for Social Justice in Urban America”, Education: A Raceb4race Symposium, 2021
“Who Shot Romeo? And How Can We Stop the Bleeding?: Shakespeare for Social Justice in Urban America”, Shakespeare Association Of America Convention, 2021
“Teaching Race Everyplace”, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019
Daniela Thomas’s Vazante: Brazil’s “Dia da Consciência Negra,” Black Consciousness Day, 2018
“Shakespeare and Black America”, Shakespeare Association Of America, 2017
“‘My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls’: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, ‘Black’ Hair, and the Revenge of Postcolonial Education.”, Sankofa Lecture Series, 2017
“‘My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls’: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, ‘Black’ Hair, and the Revenge of Postcolonial Education.”, Faculty Brown Bag Lecture, 2016
“‘My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls’: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, ‘Black’ Hair, and the Revenge of Postcolonial Education.”, Shakespeare Association Of America Convention, 2016
“‘My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls’: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, ‘Black’ Hair, and the Revenge of Postcolonial Education”, Medieval And Renaissance Studies Program Lecture, 2016
“‘My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls’: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, ‘Black’ Hair, and the Revenge of Postcolonial Education.”, First Friday Lecture Series, 2015
“The Labors of Hercules: Ethical Embodiment and an Erasmian Justification for Higher Education, 2014
“(Ig)noble Lies: Presentist Autobiography, Social Stratification, and Richard Mulcaster’s Positions Concerning the Bringing Up of Children (1581)”, 27th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference In The Humanities: Systems Of Control / Modes Of Resistance, 2012
“Heroic Learning: Rhetorical Materialization and Male Demilitarization in Early Modern Educational Theory”, 2012
“Boys Don’t Cry: Exercise as a Form of Performative Masculinity in Early Modern Medicine and Education”, Rochester Institute Of Technology, 2010
“Masculinist Obstetrical and Childcare Practices in the Time of Henry VIII.”, Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series, 2010
“Mother Erasmus and Early Cognitive Development: The Embodied Mind and the Spatiotemporal Memory of François Rabelais’s Gargantua.”, Renaissance Society Of America Conference, 2010
“Women’s Bodies and Humoral Theory”, Women Speak: Linguistic Anthropology, 2010
“Women’s Education and The Taming of the Shrew”, 2010
“‘The Prince’s grace person’: Prince Edward, Children’s Embodiment, and Performative Masculinity in Early Modern Educational Theory and Practice”, Arizona Center For Medieval And Renaissance Studies Interdisciplinary Conference, 2010
“Distracted Prayer: Time and Gestural Ritualization of Prayer in The Sir Thomas More Family Portrait.”, Renaissance Society Of America Conference, 2009
“The (Un)certainty of Time and Place: Bodily Vulnerability and Strategic Action in Early Modern Anglo-Ottoman Diplomatic Relations”, Barnard Medieval And Renaissance Conference, 2008
“‘Yet are they but our schools of lunatics’: Madness, Education, and Bodily Discretion in The Changeling”, South-central Renaissance Conference, 2008
“Allowing Ethics to Guide Our Personal, Academic, and Social Behavior", Annual Awards Banquet, 2005
“Thomas Dallam and the Politics of Time in Early Modern Anglo-Ottoman Relations”, Community Of Scholars Conference, 2004

Grants and sponsorships

Fellowship, Robin L. Hixon Research Fellowship, Old Dominion University, - 2019
Grant, Future Faculty Career Exploration Program, Rochester Institute of Technology, - 2010
Fellowship, Dissertation Scholar and Visiting Fellow in English, Colgate University, 2008 - 2010
Fellowship, Diversifying Faculty in Illinois (DFI) Fellowship, State of Illinois, 2008 - 2010
Grant, Conference Travel Grant, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, - 2007
Fellowship, Richard K. Barksdale Fellowship, Department of English, University of Illinois, - 2004
Fellowship, Graduate College Fellowship, University of Illinois, 2001 - 2004
Fellowship, Summer Pre-Doctoral Institute Fellowship, University of Illinois, - 2001
Fellowship, Doctoral Scholars Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, - 1999

Awards and Honors

Clark University National Residence Hall Honorary Staff Member of the Month, 2016
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends, 2016
SUNY Oswego’s President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Advising, 2013
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2012
Teacher of the Summer: Upward Bound Program, 2002

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