"There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole." --Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) is a writer of growing importance in American Modernist scholarship. Though neglected by academia for decades, she has been recently rediscovered as a major contributor to Modernist aesthetics. She was admired by her contemporaries for her gifts spanning different genres such as journalism, illustration, drawings, poetry, and fiction.

This website was designed by Darcy L. Brandel and Jamie L. McDaniel as part of a larger examination of American Modernism for a graduate course that took place in the Spring of 2003 in the English Department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. We hope that this exploration of Barnes and her multifaceted ways of seeing will encourage and cultivate collaborative scholarship across the disciplines.



Papers

     Read each of our critical papers on the works of Djuna Barnes.

Bibliography

     Collaborative bibliography of selected sources that help contextualize important themes in Barnes's life and work.

Links

     An annotated list of online resources for Barnes scholarship.

Images

     Browse through our gallery of photographs of Barnes and her contemporaries.

Interviews

     Barnes had an a natural charisma when conducting interviews. Explore this collection of some of her finest, many including her illustrations.

Library

     Check out Barnes's primary texts and artwork online. Includes some of her work as well as relevant quotations and links to other pages.

Maps

     A bird's-eye view of Djuna Barnes's various residences, both in New York and Paris.

Roundtable

     Engage in discussion on Barnes and other issues in American Modernism: Raise questions, discuss teaching strategies, contribute additional resources.

About Us

     Meet your web designers: learn more about our scholarship and research interests.