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. 

Monograph:

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'  and 'Annotated Bibliography' 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

2012-13 Guest editor for 2 special issues, 'Radical Women', Literature Compass

May 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

Module Leader for:

  • Eighteenth Century Literature: Terror, Wit and Letters of Love
  • Enlightenment Literature
  • Derbyshire Landscapes in Literature
  • Victorian Realism: Conscience and Context
  • MA, Critical Issues in Humanities

I also supervise postgraduate research students in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature

Research interests

Research and publications: My specialist fields are in eighteenth-century women's writing and regional (East Midlands) 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. Reviewer for THE.

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

International Gothic Society

Recent Conferences

  • January 2012, 'Thomas Day: Portrait of a Gentleman', Joseph Wright Symposium, University of Derby
  • January 2012, 'The Midnight Pageant: Gothic Landscapes in an English Wood', BSECS, St, Hugh's, Oxford
  • November 2011, Public talk: 'Joseph Wright and the Female Imagination', Derby Museum and Gallery
  • June 2011: Public talk: 'Derbyshire Literature: Writers and their Subjects', Derby Theatre
  • April 2011, organiser and convenor for the Women's Studies Group Annual Symposium, Senate House, UCL
  • January 2011, 'Piercing the "veils of distance": Brydone's Geological Tour in an Altered Literary Space', BSECS, St Hugh's, Oxford

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

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