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Faith Barter

Assistant Professor
Black Studies, English
fbarter@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1510
Office: 320 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Monday 2:00-3:30pm; Wednesday 1:00-2:30pm. Sign up at dr-barter.youcanbook.me
Research Interests: African American Literary and Cultural Studies, 19th-Century American Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Legal Studies
Website: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469685977/black-pro-se/

Publications

Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

"In the Clearing: A Conversation with Karla Holloway." Meridians 24, no. 2 (2025): 307–19. doi:10.1215/15366936-11862663.

“Ambivalence and Empathy.” European Journal of English Studies 29, no. 1 (2025): 147–54. doi:10.1080/13825577.2025.2463474.

"Freedom Suit." In Spoo, Robert. Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature. 1st ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2025. doi:10.4337/9781803925912.

“Encrypted Citations: The Bondwoman’s Narrative and the Case of Jane Johnson.” Melus 46, no. 1 (2021): 51–74. doi:10.1093/melus/mlab002.

“Lessons in Legal Literacy: Democratizing Legal Critique as a Means of Resisting Racial Injustice.” Law, Culture and the Humanities 16, no. 3 (2020): 365–78. doi:10.1177/1743872117707620.

 

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