Cortney Barko, Ph.D.
Associate Chair of the School of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of English
Cortney Barko is an Associate Professor of English at West Virginia University Institute
of Technology. She received her PhD in English from Northern Illinois University
in 2011, along with graduate certificates in Women’s Studies and Museum Studies.
Her research interests include twentieth-century American literature, women’s literature,
and feminist theoretical studies. Barko’s monograph,
Writers and Artists in Dialogue: Historical Fiction About Women Painters,
was published in 2016 by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. She teaches
first-year composition, literature, and communication courses.