Faculty & Staff
Barbara Lide
PhD, University of Illinois
Professor Emerita of Languages and Comparative Literature
eMail: bblide @ mtu.edu
Dr. Lide's scholarly work on the Swedish writer August Strindberg has received considerable recognition internationally. Her research and teaching involve theories of irony and reading ironies, postmodern narration and performance, and drama and performance theory and practice. Dr. Lide teaches German language courses, as well as world literatures, including Scandinavian, German, French, English, and American. She is also a translator (German and Swedish to English).