Aging

Dr. Barbara Frey Waxman
English
Professor

Areas of Interest/Expertise:

• New Perspectives on Aging in Contemporary Autobiography or Fiction
• 19th Century British literature (especially Victorian); Women's Studies in literature
• Multicultural literature of the U.S.
• Gothic literature (British and American)
• Autobiography
• Literature of aging
• Literary theory

Contact Information:

910.962.3334 or waxmanb@uncw.edu

www.uncw.edu/english/faculty3.htm#waxman

Barbara Frey Waxman teaches classes on autobiography, literary theory, Victorian literature, women’s literature, literature about aging, and cross-cultural American literature. She has published two books on the literature of aging and has also edited a collection of essays. Waxman has published essays on such authors as Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Marie Arana, Alice Walker and Richard Rodriguez. Her essays on the literature of aging have appeared in such journals as The Gerontologist and The South Atlantic Review.