Staff Profiles

Dr Rebecca Anne Barr

B.A., M.Phil, M.A., Ph.D

Biography

Rebecca Anne Barr studied at Jesus College, Cambridge for her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Following a BA honors in English, she received an M.Phil in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies and went on to complete a doctorate on the novels of Samuel Richardson. During her time as a graduate student she won the University of Cambridge Seatonian Prize for poetry.

She has lectured at several universities, including St Peter’s College, Oxford, Royal Holloway, University of London, and Bath Spa University. Along with Dr Justin Tonra (NUIG) she is involved in Ossian Online, a web project which will present James Macpherson's Ossian poems and their publication history in digital form. Her current research focusses on representations of men and masculinity in mid-eighteenth century novels. Other research and teaching interests include the history and theory of the novel, masculinity and literature, psychoanalysis and literature, print culture, and twentieth century British and Irish poetry.

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2018)	'Men, Women, and Not Quite Non-Persons: Derivatization in Roxana' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) 'Men, Women, and Not Quite Non-Persons: Derivatization in Roxana'. Revue de la Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, [ARAN Link] [Details]
	(2016)	'The man of feeling as dupe of desire: John Cleland’s 'Memoirs of a Coxcomb'' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2016) 'The man of feeling as dupe of desire: John Cleland’s 'Memoirs of a Coxcomb''. Etudes Epistémè, 30 [Details]
	(2016)	''Barren desarts of arbitrary words': language and communication in Collier and Fielding's 'The Cry'' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2016) ''Barren desarts of arbitrary words': language and communication in Collier and Fielding's 'The Cry''. Women's Writing, 23 (1):87-105 [Details]
	(2013)	'Pathological laughter and the response to ridicule: Samuel Richardson, Jane Collier, and Sarah Fielding' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2013) 'Pathological laughter and the response to ridicule: Samuel Richardson, Jane Collier, and Sarah Fielding'. Revue de la Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 70 :223-246 [Details]
	(2012)	'W. S. Graham and epistolarity' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2012) 'W. S. Graham and epistolarity'. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 4 (1) [Details]
	(2010)	'Richardson's 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the symptoms of subjectivity' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2010) 'Richardson's 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the symptoms of subjectivity'. The Eighteenth Century: Theory And Interpretation, 51 (4):1-24 [ARAN Link] [Details]

Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	'Introduction' Rebecca Anne Barr; Sean Brady; Jane McGaughey (2019) 'Introduction' In: Ireland and Masculinities in History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
	(2018)	'Introduction; entrails and digestion in the eighteenth century' Rebecca Anne Barr; Sylvie-Kleiman-Lafon; Sophie Vasset (2018) 'Introduction; entrails and digestion in the eighteenth century' In: Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details]
	(2018)	'Brightest wits and bravest soldiers: Ireland, masculinity and the politics of paternity' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) 'Brightest wits and bravest soldiers: Ireland, masculinity and the politics of paternity' In: Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-1780. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details]
	(2018)	'Desire, disgust and Indigestion in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) 'Desire, disgust and Indigestion in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb' In: Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century. Manchetsre: Manchester University Press. [Details]
	(2017)	'“Moral Painting, by way of Dialogue”: Shaftesbury in The Cry' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2017) '“Moral Painting, by way of Dialogue”: Shaftesbury in The Cry' In: Shaftesbury. Germany: Peter Lang. [Details]
	(2017)	'Annotation and the Social Edition' Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2017) 'Annotation and the Social Edition' In: A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts. Basingstoke: Routledge. [Details]
	(2015)	'Forrest Reid's Queer Ulster Pastoral' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2015) 'Forrest Reid's Queer Ulster Pastoral' In: Engendering Ireland: New reflections on modern Irish History and Literature. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Details]
	(2015)	''Black Transactions' : waste and abundance in Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa'' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2015) ''Black Transactions' : waste and abundance in Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa'' In: The Afterlife of Used Things, Recycling in the long Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge Studies in Modern History. [Details]
	(2011)	'“Complete Hypocrite, Complete Tradesman”: Defoe’s Complete English Tradesman and masculine conduct' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2011) '“Complete Hypocrite, Complete Tradesman”: Defoe’s Complete English Tradesman and masculine conduct' In: Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-fiction: Form, Function, Genre. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Details]
	(2010)	'Resurrecting Saxon things: Peter Reading, species decline and Old English poetry' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2010) 'Resurrecting Saxon things: Peter Reading, species decline and Old English poetry' In: Anglo-Saxon Culture in the Modern Imagination. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer. [Details]
	(2010)	'The Gothic in David Lynch: phantasmagoria and abjection' Barr, Rebecca Anne (2010) 'The Gothic in David Lynch: phantasmagoria and abjection' In: David Lynch in Theory. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia. [Details]

Edited Books

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	Ireland and Masculinities in History. Rebecca Anne Barr; Sean Brady; Jane McGaughey (Ed.). (2019) Ireland and Masculinities in History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
	(2018)	Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century. Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Sophie Vasset (Ed.). (2018) Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details]
	(2015)	Engendering Ireland: New reflections on modern history and literature. Barr, Rebecca Anne; Buckley, Sarah-Anne; Kelly, Laura (Ed.). (2015) Engendering Ireland: New reflections on modern history and literature Engendering Ireland: New reflections on modern history and literature. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Details]

Conference Contributions

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	Centenary Seminar for W. S. Graham, Rebecca Anne Barr (2019) Maimed Masculinity in W.S. Graham. [Invited Paper], Centenary Seminar for W. S. Graham, University of Cambridge , 11-JAN-19. [Details]
	(2018)	Embodiment: Gender, Culture, Society and Being-in-the-Body, Rebecca Anne Barr (2018) Sex, smell, and nice stomachs: eighteenth-century bodies. [Keynote Address], Embodiment: Gender, Culture, Society and Being-in-the-Body, University of Limerick , 06-DEC-18. [Details]
	(2018)	UCC English Department Research seminar, Rebecca Anne Barr (2018) Sticky feelings: disgust in fiction. [Invited Lecture], UCC English Department Research seminar, UCC English Department Research seminar , 28-NOV-18. [Details]
	(2018)	UCD Department of English Research seminar, Rebecca Anne Barr (2018) Sticky feelings: disgust in fiction. [Invited Lecture], UCD Department of English Research seminar, UCD Department of English Research seminar , 24-OCT-18. [Details]
	(2017)	‘Scenes of woe in perspective’: James Thomson’s Winter and Irish poetry on the Great Frost’, Barr, Rebecca Anne (2017) American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. [International Refereed Conference], ‘Scenes of woe in perspective’: James Thomson’s Winter and Irish poetry on the Great Frost’, American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies , 30-MAR-17. [Details]
	(2016)	‘Dynamic Loyalty in Edward Kimber’s The Life and Adventures of James Ramble’, Barr, Rebecca Anne (2016) American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies,. [International Refereed Conference], ‘Dynamic Loyalty in Edward Kimber’s The Life and Adventures of James Ramble’, American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, , 30-MAR-16. [Details]
	(2016)	‘The Erotics of Disgust’, Barr, Rebecca Anne (2016) LDC Seminar, University of East Anglia. [Invited Lecture], ‘The Erotics of Disgust’, University of East Anglia , 01-MAR-16. [Details]
	(2015)	‘The erotics of disgust: John Cleland and Sensibility’, Barr, Rebecca Anne (2015) Cambridge University, Faculty of English, Eighteenth-Century Studies Research Seminar. [Invited Lecture], ‘The erotics of disgust: John Cleland and Sensibility’, Cambridge University, Faculty of English, Eighteenth-Century Studies Research Seminar , 02-MAY-15. [Details]
	(2015)	Macpherson's Ossian Legacy Conference, Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2015) Ossian Online: A Digital Resource for Macpherson’s Ossian. [Conference Paper], Macpherson's Ossian Legacy Conference, Kingussie, Scotland , 18-APR-15 - 19-APR-15. [Details]
	(2014)	Edition as Argument, Rebecca Anne Barr and Justin Tonra (2014) For the sake of argument: crowdsourcing annotation of Macpherson's 'Ossian'. [Conference Paper], Edition as Argument, Queen Mary, University of London , 16-JUL-14 - 17-JUL-14. [Details]
	(2014)	VENTRE ET VISCÈRES. ESTHÉTIQUE ET SYMBOLIQUE DES ENTRAILLES ET DE LA DIGESTION AU XVIIIE SIÈCLE, Barr, Rebecca Anne (2014) Desire, disgust, and indigestion in John Cleland's 'Memoirs of a Coxcomb'. [International Refereed Conference], VENTRE ET VISCÈRES. ESTHÉTIQUE ET SYMBOLIQUE DES ENTRAILLES ET DE LA DIGESTION AU XVIIIE SIÈCLE, Université Paris Diderot , 21-MAR-14 - 22-MAR-14. [Details]
	(2014)	Reading and Identity, Barr, Rebecca Anne (2014) Reading nations, debating identities: new approaches to Macpherson's 'Ossian'. [International Refereed Conference], Reading and Identity, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh , 26-AUG-14 - 26-AUG-14. [Details]
	(2015)	ASECS: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2015) Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies. [International Refereed Conference], ASECS: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, United States , 19-MAR-15 - 22-MAR-15. [Details]
	(2014)	DH2014: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014) Crowdsourcing Annotation and the ‘Social Edition’: Ossian Online. [Poster Presentation (Refereed)], DH2014: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, Lausanne, Switzerland , 09-JUL-14 - 12-JUL-14. [Details]
	(2014)	Reading and Identity Conference, Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014) Reading Nations, Debating Identities: New Approaches to Macpherson’s Ossian. [Conference Paper], Reading and Identity Conference, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland , 26-AUG-14 - 26-AUG-14. [Details]
	(2014)	The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 Conference,, Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014) For the Sake of Argument: Crowdsourcing Annotation of Macpherson’s Ossian. [Conference Paper], The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 Conference,, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK , 17-JUL-14 - 17-JUL-14. [Details]

Blog

	Year	Publication
	(2014)	The Man 'that loved the mysterie': research at Marsh's Library, Dublin. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2014) The Man 'that loved the mysterie': research at Marsh's Library, Dublin. Blog [Details]
	(2016)	'Ossian', albums, and party politics. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2016) 'Ossian', albums, and party politics. Ossian Online Blog: Blog [Details]

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	Review of Clarissa's Caesuras: Samuel Richardson and the Art of Tragedy. Rebecca Anne Barr (2019) Review of Clarissa's Caesuras: Samuel Richardson and the Art of Tragedy. Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Book Review [DOI] [Details]
	(2019)	Review of Katie Barclay: Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Rebecca Anne Barr (2019) Review of Katie Barclay: Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Book Review [Details]
	(2018)	Review of Peter Degabriele, Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political (2015). Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) Review of Peter Degabriele, Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political (2015). Book Review [Details]
	(2016)	Review of Amy Prendergast 'Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Barr, Rebecca Anne (2016) Review of Amy Prendergast 'Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Book Review [Details]
	(2016)	Pastoral Protestants [Review of Andrew Carpenter and Lucy Collins, 'The Irish Poet and the Natural World', Cork University Press, 2014]. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2016) Pastoral Protestants [Review of Andrew Carpenter and Lucy Collins, 'The Irish Poet and the Natural World', Cork University Press, 2014]. Duke University Press: Book Review [Details]
	(2015)	Irish Women in History. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2015) Irish Women in History. Women: A Cultural Review: Book Review [Details]
	(2013)	'Reconceptionalizing Women’s Poetry'. Review of Lucy Collins, 'Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology, 1870-1970', Liverpool University Press, 2012. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2013) 'Reconceptionalizing Women’s Poetry'. Review of Lucy Collins, 'Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology, 1870-1970', Liverpool University Press, 2012. Book Review [Details]

Editorial

	Year	Publication
	(2012)	W.S. Graham special edition: an introduction. Rebecca Anne Barr (2012) W.S. Graham special edition: an introduction. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry: Editorial [DOI] [Details]

Electronic Publication

	Year	Publication
	(2018)	Law, Sympathy and Rape Jokes. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) Law, Sympathy and Rape Jokes. Electronic Publication [Details]

Encyclopedia Entry

	Year	Publication
	(2018)	[John Seally] The Young Philosopher; or, the natural son. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) [John Seally] The Young Philosopher; or, the natural son. Cambridge: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
	(2018)	[John Seally], 'The Irishman, or, the Favourite of Fortune'. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) [John Seally], 'The Irishman, or, the Favourite of Fortune'. Cambridge: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
	(2018)	'The Life and Adventures of James Ramble'. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) 'The Life and Adventures of James Ramble'. Cambridge: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
	(2018)	[John Seally], 'Les Delices du Sentiment: or, The Passionate Lovers. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) [John Seally], 'Les Delices du Sentiment: or, The Passionate Lovers. Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
	(2018)	[John Seally,] The Loves of Calisto and Emira; Or, the Fatal Legacy (1776). Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) [John Seally,] The Loves of Calisto and Emira; Or, the Fatal Legacy (1776). Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
	(2018)	John Seally, Moral Tales, after the Eastern Manner. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) John Seally, Moral Tales, after the Eastern Manner. Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
	(2018)	[John Seally], Colonel Ormsby, or, the Genuine History of an Irish Nobleman in the French Service. Barr, Rebecca Anne (2018) [John Seally], Colonel Ormsby, or, the Genuine History of an Irish Nobleman in the French Service. Cambridge: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]

Honours and Awards

Year	Title	Awarding Body
2016	Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship	Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
2015	HERA Travel Award	HERA
2014	Visiting Scholar at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge	Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
2014	Muriel McCarthy Research Fellow	Marsh's Library, Dublin
2013	President's Award for Teaching Excellence	NUI Galway
2012	Visiting fellow at Chawton House LIbrary	Chawton House and University of Southampton
2010	Millennium Research Fund	NUI, Galway
2007	Charles Lamb Bursary	Wordsworth Annual Conference
2005	British Federation for Women Graduates, graduate bursary	British Federation for Women Graduates
2002	Seatonian Prize for poetry	University of Cambridge
2001	AHRB Postgraduate scholarship	Arts and Humanities Research Board, UK
2001	Morgan Prize for Composition	Jesus College, Cambridge
1999	Samuel Taylor Coleridge Prize for English	Jesus College, Cambridge
1999	College Exhibition Scholarship	Jesus College, Cambridge

Professional Associations

Association	Function	From / To
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing	Ordinary Member	06-MAY-12 /
Eighteenth Century Research Network in Ireland	Ordinary Member	/
UL & NUIG Gender ARC	Ordinary Member	/
British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies	Ordinary Member	01-JAN-08 / 17-FEB-12
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies	Ordinary Member	01-JAN-07 / 17-FEB-12