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.

’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)

Literature of the 'long' eighteenth century; masculinity and literature; printing and print culture; the novel: contemporary poetry and visual culture.