Barbara Freeman

Barbara Claire Freeman is a literary critic and professor of literature who has recently turned her full attention to writing poetry. She is the author of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction (University of California Press), among other works of criticism. Formerly an Associate Professor of English at Harvard, she teaches creative writing in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California at Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including...See more

Barbara Claire Freeman is a literary critic and professor of literature who has recently turned her full attention to writing poetry. She is the author of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction (University of California Press), among other works of criticism. Formerly an Associate Professor of English at Harvard, she teaches creative writing in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California at Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Colorado Review, CrazyHorse, DENVER QUARTERLY, Harvard Review, Laurel Review, and NEW AMERICAN WRITING. She is the recipient of the Boston Review/Discovery Prize (2008), the Language Exchange Poetry Prize (Sarah Lawrence College, 2007), and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a native San Franciscan and lives in Berkeley, California. See less