Nancy Barber
Lecturer
Nancy Barber began teaching at Stetson University in 1998 and has been a Sullivan Lecturer since 2002. She majored in political science at Davidson College, then worked as a journalist before getting an Master of Arts in English at Stetson, specializing in the 20th century novel. She taught for a year at what is now Daytona State College before moving on to the University of Florida, where she taught Poetry Writing and Composition and received an Master of Fine Arts in poetry writing in 1995. She taught English at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Fla., before returning to Stetson as a lecturer. Barber specializes in creative nonfiction. Among her other writings, she published an essay on human cannonballs in Raritan Quarterly in 2006 and co-wrote "Meals Worth Stopping for in Florida: Local Restaurants within 10 Miles of the Interstate," published by Globe Pequot Press in 2008.
Education
- M.F.A. in Poetry Writing, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1995
- M.A. in English, Stetson University, DeLand, FL, 1992
- A.B. in Political Science, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 1986
Research
- Creative Nonfiction
Courses
- Writing and Rhetoric
- Intermediate Composition
- Creative Nonfiction
- Creative Outreach: Poetry
- Nonfiction Workshop: Travel Writing
Publications
- “Go Slow: Present and Future Legends of BBQ,” The Bullsheet, May 2011
- “Not at My Camp . . . Yet!,” Camping Magazine, Oct/Nov 2009
- "Meals Worth Stopping for in Florida," with Jane Bolding, Globe Pequot Press, 2008
- “Learning to Fly,” Raritan Quarterly, Spring 2006
- “The King at the Christmas Party,” Interim, Volume 18, University of Las Vegas
