Barbara LeGendre

Since 1988 Barbara LeGendre has been fortunate enough to pursue her passion for teaching and for making writing easier for students here at Cornell University.

Her Bachelor’s and Master’s are from The College of Wooster (in English Literature and British History), and her PhD is from Case Western Reserve in Twentieth Century British and American Modernism with a dissertation that examines the uses of language in the five first-person novels of Canadian writer, Margaret Laurence—The Figurative World of Margaret Laurence.

She has worked with the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines as an instructor  in the Writing Workshop and in the English Department; a facilitator for faculty and graduate students who are soon to teach Freshman Seminars; a supervisor of a Walk-In Service for Biology students; as a consultant for graduate students in Writing in the Disciplines’ courses and for graduate students who are Blocked Writers.

Her current areas of research include exploring the challenges of Blocked Writers, refining the correlation between personality and writing preference descriptors, and examining the uses of metaphoric language in the African and Canadian short stories of Margaret Laurence.