Salameno School of American and International Studies (SSAIS)

Assistant Professor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 2010

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7180
• E-mail: tbarnes1@ramapo.edu 
• Office: B-141
• Office Hours: MR 11:00-11:30 AM; 5:30-6:30 PM, also by appointment

Education:

• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric  (Designated Emphasis in Film Studies)
• M.A.  University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric 
• B.A.   University of California, Berkeley, English   (Education minor)

Courses Offered:

• Shakespeare’s Plays
• Survey of British Literature I 
• College English

Teaching Interests:

• Shakespeare, 
• rhetorical theory, 
• film studies, 
• dramatic literature in performance,

Research Interests:

• performance studies
• race and gender studies
• literary theory
• critical theory
• philosophies of history and difference

Recent Publications:

• “Hip Hop Macbeth, ‘Digitized Blackness’, and the New  Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture Sharing in the Virtual Classroom,” in Wayward Macbeth:  Intersections of Race and Performance, edited by Scott  Newstok and Ayanna Thompson New York: Palgrave, 2009
   
• 'Hamlet on the Potomac': Anti-Intellectualism in American Political Discourse Before and After 'the Decider'." Hamlet Handbook, edited by Peter W. Marx.  Stuttgart/Weimar: J.B. Metzler, 2011.
• "George W. Bush's 'Three Shakespeares': Macbeth, Macbush, and the Theater of War," Shakespeare Bulletin 26:3 (Fall 2008): 1-29
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• "MacB: The Macbeth Project (review)" Shakespeare Bulletin 27:3 (Fall 2009)