Barbara Corrado Pope

Add links
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Barbara Corrado Pope
Professor emerita
Born1941 (age 82–83)
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Faculty, novelist
Known for
  • Founding director of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Oregon
  • Director,
    Robert D. Clark Honors College
TitleProfessor
SpouseDaniel Pope
ChildrenOne adult daughter, a legal aid criminal defense attorney in New York City
Academic background
EducationPh.D.
Alma materColumbia University
ThesisMothers and daughters in early nineteenth-century Paris (1981)
Academic work
EraFrench Revolution–Belle Époque
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-disciplineWomen's studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Oregon
Notable works
  • The Blood of Lorraine
  • The Missing Italian Girl
    • Websitehttp://www.barbaracpope.com/

    Barbara Corrado Pope, professor emerita, (born 1941)

    Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, and the founding director of Women's and Gender Studies at Oregon.[2]

    Biography

    A native of

    Robert D. Clark Honors College
    at Oregon.

    Research and teaching

    Pope's 1981 Ph.D. dissertation at

    socio-political context of 19th and 20th century France, with particular concern for their implications for models of womanhood".[5]

    Pope has written a number of pioneering articles on women's and religious history, including "Angels in the Devil's Workshop: Leisured and Charitable Women in Nineteenth-Century France and England",

    scriptwriter on a documentary film about a Sicilian Easter Procession, Processione (1989).[8]

    Pope's teaching career at the University of Oregon brought recognition and awards: In 1988 she received the University's

    Burlington Northern Foundation award for excellence in teaching. The Center for the Study of Women in Society
    described her contributions to the undergraduate curriculum:

    Pope was the driving force behind the 1987 UO

    multicultural curriculum throughout the country.[4]

    The annual Barbara Corrado Pope Award was established at the Clark Honors College for an honors thesis "in the area of diversity, including gender and ethnic studies".[9]

    Novels

    Commemorative sugar maple tree

    Since retiring in 2008, Pope has written a trilogy of murder mysteries set in France during the period between the

    Cleveland, Ohio, and is writing short plays.[11]

    Commemorative plaque from Class of 2000

    Critical reception

    Pope's fiction has been well received. Charles Sowerwine noted, "She is producing historical

    red herrings, false clues, and unexpected perpetrators—Pope clearly wants more than to be the Third Republic's Fred Vargas
    ; she wants to present a broad view of French society through a fictional setting."

    Hallie Ephron wrote that Pope's "wonderful mysteries are steeped in history and twisted by her own uniquely subversive viewpoint", and observed, "Pope starts each book with an historical moment which offers a context for exploring issues of class, gender and social justice", noting finally that Pope writes "... as if there's a cheeky (not preachy) broad at the keyboard, not afraid to call it the way she sees it".[11]

    Reviewer Julie Hammons, one of Pope's former students at the

    feminist scholar in her fiction efforts.[9]

    Oprah.com featured The Missing Italian Girl as a Summer Reading recommendation in 2013, as "one of 7 Compulsively Readable Mysteries (for the Crazy-Smart Reader)!"[11][12]

    See also

    References

    1. ^ a b "Mothers and daughters in early nineteenth-century Paris". searchworks.stanford.edu. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
    2. ^ a b c "Barbara Corrado Pope (author) on AuthorsDen". AuthorsDen.com. Archived from the original on July 15, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
    3. ^ "Northwest Authors". nwbooklovers.org. 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
    4. ^ a b c "A long time coming" (PDF). Center for the Study of Women in Society, Annual Review 2009. University of Oregon. pp. 20–21. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
    5. ^ "Barbara Corrado Pope". wsrp.hds.harvard.edu. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
    6. ISBN 9780395419502
      .
    7. ISBN 9780807010044
      .
    8. ^ Lloyd, Susan C. "Processione, a Sicilian Easter". searchworks.stanford.edu. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
    9. ^ a b Hammon, Julie (July 31, 2013). "Barbara Corrado Pope: Mysteries of the Belle Époque". Bloom. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
    10. ^ a b Sowerwine, Charles. "Death in the Belle Époque: Barbara Corrado Pope's Trilogy of Mysteries". Fiction and Film for French Historians. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
    11. ^ a b c Ephron, Hallie (February 21, 2013). "Jungle Red Writers: Barbara Corrado Pope, cheeky feminist historian and Oprah pick". www.jungleredwriters.com. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
    12. ^ Gorman, Nathalie. "7 Compulsively Readable Mysteries (for the Crazy-Smart Reader) - The Missing Italian Girl: A Mystery in Paris". Oprah.com. Retrieved February 7, 2016.

    External links

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbara_Corrado_Pope&oldid=1217818625"