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Dr Rebecca Anne Barr B.A., M.Phil, M.A., Ph.D
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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. 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. |
Research Interests
| The history and theory of the novel, masculinity and literature, psychoanalysis and literature, print culture, and twentieth century British and Irish poetry. |
Research Projects
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Project: MILLENNIUM FUND 2010 PASSION AND COMMUNITY RESISTANCE AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE WORK OF SAMUEL RICHARDSON REBECCA BARR ( RM1018) Role: ROLE_DESC Description: DESCRIPTION Start/End Dates: 28-JAN-11 / 30-JUN-13 |
Book Chapters
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2012) ''Black Transactions' : waste and abundance in Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa'' In: Ariane Fenneteaux, Amélie Junqua and Sophie Vasset (eds). The Afterlife of Used Things, Recycling in the long Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge Studies in Modern History. [Details] |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2011) '“Complete Hypocrite, Complete Tradesman”: Defoe’s Complete English Tradesman and masculine conduct' In: Andreas Mueller (eds). Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-fiction: Form, Function, Genre. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Details] |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2010) 'Resurrecting Saxon things: Peter Reading, species decline and Old English poetry' In: Nicholas Perkins and David Clark (eds). Anglo-Saxon Culture in the Modern Imagination. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer. [Details] |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2010) 'The Gothic in David Lynch: phantasmagoria and abjection' In: François-Xavier Gleyzon (eds). David Lynch in Theory. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2012) 'W. S. Graham and epistolarity'. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 4 (1). [Details] |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2012) 'Introduction'. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 4 (1). [Details] |
| 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] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 2012. Title: Visiting fellow at Chawton House LIbrary |
| Year: 2010. Title: Millennium Research Fund |
| Year: 2007. Title: Charles Lamb Bursary |
| Year: 2005. Title: British Federation for Women Graduates, graduate bursary |
| Year: 2002. Title: Seatonian Prize for poetry |
| Year: 2001. Title: Morgan Prize for Composition |
| Year: 1999. Title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Prize for English |
| Year: 1999. Title: College Exhibition Scholarship |
Associations
| Association: British Women Writers Association, Function/Role: Ordinary Member |
| Association: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Function/Role: Ordinary Member |
| Association: Eighteenth Century Research Network in Ireland, Function/Role: Ordinary Member |
| Association: UL & NUIG Gender ARC , Function/Role: Ordinary Member |
| Association: British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Function/Role: Ordinary Member |
| Association: Modern Language Association, Function/Role: Ordinary Member |
| Association: American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Function/Role: Ordinary Member |
Conference Contributions
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2012) Impressions and impressionability: philosophy and knowledge in Sarah Fielding's 'The Cry'. [International Refereed Conference], British Women Writers Conference, Boulder, Colorado , 07-JUN-12 - 10-JUN-12. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2012) 'The kind of boy I liked' : gender, boyhood and masculinity in the work of Forrest Reid. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Gender and Irish society in the 19th and 20th century: New perspectives and new ideas, NUI Galway , 23-MAR-12 - 24-MAR-12. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2012) 'A parcel of hard words to conjure by': language and gender in Sarah Fielding's 'The Cry'. [International Refereed Conference], The Language of Women’s Fiction, 1750-1830, Chawton House, Hampshire , 23-FEB-12 - 25-FEB-12. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2011) ’Fielding’s The Cry and the unpleasures of the imagination’. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Eighteenth Century Research Network in Ireland, University College Dublin , 22-APR-11 - 22-APR-11. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2010) ’Samuel Richardson’s ’Black Transactions’: type and the production of novelty’. [International Refereed Conference], British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies,, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford , 01-JAN-10 - 05-JAN-10. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2010) Panel ‘Hacking the canon: the virtual in literature’. [Chaired Session], Mapping the New: Aesthetics, New Directions, and Innovations in Literature and Culture, Qatar University, Doha , 11-FEB-10 - 11-FEB-10. |
| Barr, rebecca Anne (2010) International conference on developments in Humanities and culture with special emphasis on global literatures. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Mapping the New: Aesthetics, New Directions, and Innovations in Literature and Culture, Qatar University, Doha , 11-FEB-10 - 14-FEB-10. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2010) Panel chair, Richardson's 'Clarissa'. [Chaired Session], British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford , 04-JAN-10 - 04-JAN-10. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2009) ’Where all things are possible’: the politics of American Literature in the Middle East’. [International Refereed Conference], International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Beijing, China , 01-JUN-09 - 06-JUN-09. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2009) Samuel Richardson and the art of recycling. [International Refereed Conference], The cycles of novelty - recycling in eighteenth-century England, Université Paris Diderot, Paris , 15-APR-09 - 17-APR-09. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2009) ’’The Province of the Preacher’: difficulties in conduct book masculinity’. [Chaired Session], British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford , 03-JAN-09 - 07-JAN-09. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2008) ‘The Dphil and beyond’. [Invited Oral Presentation], Oxford English Faculty Graduate student conference, Oxford , 01-JUN-08 - 01-JUN-08. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2007) ’Violence, nature, and the politics of the sublime: William Wordsworth and Niall Griffiths’. [International Refereed Conference], Wordsworth Annual Conference, Grasmere, England , 01-AUG-07 - 07-MAR-08. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne (2008) ’No ’after-speakers’: Peter Reading, ’species decline’ and Old English poetry’. [International Refereed Conference], Bone Dreams: Old English and Modern Poetry, Oxford, England , 17-APR-08 - 17-APR-08. |
| Barr, Rebecca Anne & Pattison, Neil (2005) National conference on 20th century Poet. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], W. S. Graham, What is he like?, Cambridge, England , 09-APR-05 - 09-APR-05. |
Committees
| Committee : Teaching and Learning Committee |
| Committee : Curriculum Committee |
Employment
| Employer: Qatar University, Doha Position: Assistant Professor in English Literature |
| Employer: Bath Spa University Position: Part-time Lecturer |
| Employer: Royal Holloway University of London Position: Visiting lecturer |
| Employer: St Peter's College, Oxford Position: College Lecturer |
Education
| Year 2004 Institution: University of Cambridge Qualification: Masters of Arts Subject: English Literature |
| Year 2007 Institution: University of Cambridge Qualification: Phd Subject: Community and subjectivity in the work of Samuel Richardson |
| Year 1999 Institution: Jesus College, University of Cambridge Qualification: BACHELOR OF ARTS Subject: English Literature |
| Year 2001 Institution: Jesus College, University of Cambridge Qualification: MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY Subject: British Literature 1700-1830 |
Reviews
| The Eighteenth Century: Theory And Interpretation: Reviewer. |
Teaching Interests
| Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture; The Novel (theory and history); Gothic Literature; Milton: poetry, prose and politics; Literary Theory and Interpretation; Feminism and gender theory; The Bible and Literature; Literature and Visual Culture; Romantic poetry and prose; Modernisms; Contemporary British poetry and fiction. |