Barbara Corrado Pope

Barbara Corrado Pope, professor emerita, (born 1941) is a novelist, historian, a former director of Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, and the founding director of Women's and Gender Studies at Oregon.

Biography A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Pope earned a Ph.D. in the Social and Intellectual History of Europe at Columbia University. She has taught history and women's studies in Hungary, Italy, France, the University of New Mexico, and Harvard Divinity School. She has also been the director of Robert D. Clark Honors College at Oregon.

Research and teaching Pope's 1981 Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University was entitled, Mothers and daughters in early nineteenth-century Paris.

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", and "Immaculate and Powerful: The Marian Revival in the Nineteenth Century". She was also a consultant and co-scriptwriter on a documentary film about a Sicilian Easter Procession, Processione (1989).

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 curriculum shift that required students to take a course focused on race and gender. Because of her determined efforts to win innovative curriculum reform, she was the first woman to win the Charles E. Johnson Memorial Award for "exceptional service to the university and the community" in 1991. Pope also received a Ford Foundation grant that helped her and colleagues develop a two-year seminar that contributed to women of color and multicultural curriculum throughout the country. She is working on a fourth novel, set in Cleveland, Ohio, and is writing short plays.

Reviewer Julie Hammons, one of Pope's former students at the University of New Mexico, said there she had "learned to read fiction through the lens of women's experiences and began listening to the voices of women in contemporary politics and culture". Further, Hammons sees the influence of Pope's work as a feminist scholar in her fiction efforts.

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)!"