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
