Lillian Schanfield, Ph.D.
Professor of English
lschanfield@mail.barry.edu

Lillian Schanfield is Professor of English and has been on the faculty since 1973. Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, she first attended McGill University, subsequently earning degrees in English (B.Ed.-English, University of Miami; MA, Université de Montréal; Ph.D. University of Miami) as well as Business (MBA, Barry University) and Social Anthropology (M.St., Oxford University).

She teaches courses in Shakespeare, British Literature, Women’s Studies, Women and Literature, and Introduction to Literature, and has developed several interdisciplinary courses that reflect her interests in literature, literary translation, gender, psychology, business, photography, and anthropology. She has published and presented papers on Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, E. M. Forster, Susan Glaspell, William Shakespeare, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others, which have appeared in a number of journals including Women in Literature and Life Assembly, The CEA Forum, ATA: American Translators Association Chronicle, The Educational Forum, The Journal of English Teaching Techniques, National Forum, Literature and Psychology, Thought and Action, Circles, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and Ben Jonson Journal.

Dr. Schanfield helped to develop the Women’s Studies Certificate Program at the University and acts as an advisor in the program. She has conducted summer study-abroad literature courses in Great Britain and Ireland and is currently Director of the Study Abroad program at Barry.

Serving a second four-year term as Southern Regent of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, she sits on the national board and is currently chairing its Scholarship Committee. As faculty sponsor of the Barry chapter since its installation at the University in 1990, she mentors student conventioneers and guides the chapter’s involvement in various literary projects, among them an annual creative writing contest and publication of the literary journal, What Oft Was Thought.

Dr. Schanfield chairs the Dr. Lloyd D. Elgart Scholarship Committee and the Ambassador Jean Wilkowski Fellowship Council, and serves on various Departmental and University committees, including the Undergraduate Council of the University.

Her interests include photography, piano, travel, and Yiddish translation.