rebecca Anne barr

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.

She has lectured at several universities, including St Peter’s College, Oxford; Royal Holloway, University of London, and Bath Spa University.  While a graduate student she won the University of Cambridge Seatonian Prize for poetry. At present Rebecca is rewriting her PhD for monograph publication and preparing work on her next research project on male chastity in the long eighteenth-century.

Her research and teaching interests are the history and theory of the novel, masculinity and literature, psychoanalysis and literature, print culture, and twentieth century British and Irish poetry.

Selected Publications
’Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison and the symptoms of subjectivity’, The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, 51:4, Winter 2010, 1-24.

’Resurrecting Saxon things: Peter Reading, ’species decline’ and Old English poetry’, Bone Dreams: Anglo-Saxon Culture in the Modern Imagination, ed. Nicholas Perkins and David Clark (Boydell & Brewer, October 2010), pp. 255-279.

’The Gothic in David Lynch: phantasmagoria and abjection’, David Lynch in Theory, ed. François-Xavier Gleyzon (Litteraria Pragensia, October 2010), pp. 132-146.

’“Complete Hypocrite, Complete Tradesman: Defoe’s Complete English Tradesman and masculine conduct’, Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-fiction: Form, Function, Genre, ed. Andreas Mueller (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011), pp. 67-85.

’Black Transactions: Samuel Richardson and recycling’, Recycling in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Ariane Fennetaux, Amélie Junqua, and Sophie Vasset (forthcoming)

Papers presented
April 2011: ’Fielding’s The Cry and the unpleasures of the imagination’
Eighteenth Century Research Network in Ireland, University College Dublin       

January 2010: ’Samuel Richardson’s ’Black Transactions’: type and the production of novelty’
British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford                           

June 2009: ’’Where all things are possible’:  the politics of American Literature in the Middle East’
International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Beijing, China

April 2009: ’Samuel Richardson and the art of recycling’
The cycles of novelty - recycling in eighteenth-century England, Université Paris Diderot, Paris

February 2009: ’Printers, preachers and apprentices: masculine morality in the eighteenth century’
Literature Faculty Seminar, University of Qatar, Doha

January 2009: ’’The Province of the Preacher’: difficulties in conduct book masculinity’
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford

April 2008: ’No ’after-speakers’: Peter Reading, ’species decline’ and Old English poetry’
Bone Dreams: Old English and Modern Poetry conference, University of Oxford

March 2008: ’Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison’
Restoration to Reform Seminar Series, University of Oxford

November 2007: ’Literary Economies: problems of value in eighteenth-century writing’
Enlightenment Exchanges Seminar Series, University of Oxford

August 2007: ’Violence, nature, and the politics of the sublime: William Wordsworth and Niall Griffiths’
Wordsworth Annual Conference, Grasmere

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