Dr Teresa Barnard
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Job title: Lecturer in English
Email: t.barnard@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 592266
Room: E716 Kedleston Road
Recent publications
Books
In progress: An essay collection, Nature's School: Women and the Intellectual World, 1700-1830.
Anna Seward: A Constructed Life, Ashgate Publishers, September 2009
Chapters
'Seward's Lichfield' in The Idea of the City, ed. Joan Fitzpatrick, Cambridge Scholars, February 2009
'Literary Theory' in The Eighteenth Century Literature Handbook, ed. Gary Day, Continuum Books, August 2009
- '"My native rocks and hills": Anna Seward and Eyam' in Englishness: Diversity, Differences and Identity, ed. Christopher Hart, Midrash Publishing, 2008
Journals
In progress, joint editor of a special journal issue for Literature Compass
Forthcoming in 2012, Women's Writing Journal, 'Anna Seward's hidden words: female interventions into male writing'.
September 2010, Literature Compass: '"The excellencies of the female character": Anna Seward's censored sermon'
January 2009, Partial Answers, Johns Hopkins Press: 'Illuminated by an orrery'
April 2007, Women's History Network Journal: '"A deep and lasting importance": Anna Seward's juvenile letters',
September 2004, Corvey Women Writers eJournal: 'Anna Seward and the battle for authorship'
Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Humanities
Subject Area: English
Lecturer in English
Teaching responsibilities
Modules
- Eighteenth Century Literature
- Enlightenment Literature
- Derbyshire Landscapes in Literature
- Victorian Literature: Heroes and Villains
- Research Project (January starts)
- MA, Issues in Humanities
Short Courses
- Exploring Enlightenment Poetry
- Exploring Enlightenment Literature
- The Life and Writings of Alison Uttley
I am also supervising MA, MPhil and PhD students in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and in female authored Gothic novels.
Research interests
Research and publications: My specialist fields are in Enlightenment to Victorian women's writing, especially the poets Anna Seward and Eleanor Anne Porden, and regional (Derbyshire) literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. I have published a book and several articles and chapters on these subjects, as well as speaking at international and UK conferences and also at public events.
Editorial and Advisory Boards: Turku University Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Press and Cultural History Journal.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
I am a Fellow of the HEA and a member of the following professional bodies:
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Women's History Network
Women's Studies Group
British Society for Literature and Science
International Society for Cultural History
Recent Conferences
- September, 2010, 'Piercing the Vales of Distance', Women's History Network Conference, Warwick University
- June, 2010, 'Hidden Words', Women's Writing Conference, Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge
- January 2010, 'Volcanology and the Female Imagination', BSECS Conference, St Hugh's, Oxford
- September 2009, '"The excellencies of the female character": Anna Seward's Censored Sermon', Women's History Network Conference, Oxford
- July 2009, Flexible Learning Poster, LTA Conference, University Of Derby
- June 2009, 'Gothic Interventions', Landscape and Identity Symposium, University of Derby
- June 2009, 'Eleanor Anne Porden: Woman of Science', Grenoble University, France
- September 2008, 'Last Words', Women's History Network Conference, Glasgow University
- July 2008 (DVD presentation on Flexible Learning), LTA Conference, University of Derby
- March 2008, 'Illuminated by an Orrery', 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA (Hons) English with American Studies, University of Derby
Postgraduate qualifications
- Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Derby
Research qualifications
- PhD on the life of the 18th-century poet, Anna Seward, University of Birmingham
