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:
- 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 a special issue, 'Radical Women', in Literature Compass
- In Progress, 'The Heloise influence: the literary letters of Judith Madan, Anna Seward and Georgiana Cavendish'.
- In Progress, 'Speaking to the Heart: letters and footnotes in Anna Seward's Poetical Works'.
- Forthcoming, 'Thomas Day: Portrait of a Fine Gentleman'.
- January 2013, Cultural History, '"The Midnight and Poetic Pageant": An evening of romance and chivalry'.
- 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'
Book Reviews:
- Forthcoming: Helen Maria Williams and Natasha Duquette, Julia (Women's Studies Group)
- Forthcoming: Marilyn Francus, Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity (BARS).
- 2013, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Anna Sewardand the End of the Eighteenth Century(1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era).
- 2013, Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn, Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in theTwenty-First Century, 1999-2009 (Women's History Network Journal)
- 2012, Mary Helen McMurran, The Spread of Novels: Translations and Prose Fiction in the Eighteenth Century (Comparative Literature)
- 2010,Jennifer C. Kelsey, A Voice of Discontent: A Woman's Journey through the Long Eighteenth Century (Women's History Network Journal).
- 2010,Patricia Fara, Pandora's Breeches: Women,Science and Power in the Enlightenment (Herstoria)
- 2009, Elizabeth Green Musselman, Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain (British Society for Literature and Science Journal)
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
- Team tutor for Mutants and Monsters
- Team tutor for the Research Project
- Year Tutor for Level 6 students
- Supervision of undergraduate student dissertations
- Supervision of 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.
Reviews editor for the Women's Studies Group, Senate House, London.
Book reviewer for the Times Higher Education.
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
- November 2012, Pre-performance talk:' Playing with wonderful expression: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde'. Derby Theatre.
- 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
