English

Dan Barclay

Dan Barclay

Assistant Professor, Director of the Writing Program

Composition, American Studies, Liberal Arts

Ph.D. American Studies, University of Minnesota

B.A. Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College

  • Office: Simpkins 124
  • Phone: (309) 298-1103 (Department of English line)
  • Email:  d-barclay@wiu.edu

Daniel Barclay teaches in the WIU Writing Program and has taught in the Departments of English, History, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies. His presentations include:

  • “Up(staging) the Scottish Landscape: Nature, Nationalism, and Community in John McGrath’s The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black, Oil.”
  • “Preserving ‘the Natural’ in the American West: Politics, Public Policy, and Literature in the 1930s.” 
  • “Social Justice and Environmental Cosmology: Public Ritual and Cultural Diversity in Earth Day and Arbor Day Celebrations.” 
  • “Christmas Trees in the Capital: Turning Nature into a Rhetoric of Power.”
  • “Reading the Land: The Environmental Legacy of World War I.” 
  • “Metropolis of the Northern Prairie: The Environmental History of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Region.”
  • “Social Justice and Environmental Cosmology: Public Ritual and Cultural Diversity in Earth Day and Arbor Day Celebrations.” 
  • “Workplace Environmentalism: Chicano Farmworkers and the Contested Terrain of Agricultural Environments.”