Dr Rebecca Barr
Fellow
University Positions
University Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexualities
Subjects
Specialising in
Eighteenth-century literature
Rebecca Anne Barr鈥檚 research focuses on representations of gender and sexuality in eighteenth-century fiction, with a particular emphasis on masculinity.
Academic interests
Her academic interests include:
- Eighteenth-century novel
- Gender and sexuality in literature
- Embodiment
- Twentieth-century poetry.
Degrees obtained
- BA, Cantab.
- MPhil, Cantab.
- PhD, Cantab.
Awards and prizes
- 2019: Huntington Library, Short Term Fellowship.
- 2016: Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship, Yale University.
- 2015: HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area), Research Networking Bursary.
- 2014: Muriel McCarthy Research Fellowship, Marsh鈥檚 Library, Dublin.
- 2012: Chawton House, Visiting Fellowship.
- 2012: NUI Galway, President鈥檚 Award for Teaching Excellence.
- 2002: Seatonian Prize for poetry, the University of Cambridge.
Biography
Rebecca Anne Barr is a University Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English. She studied at 水果派AV College Cambridge for her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, writing her PhD on the work of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson. Originally from Northern Ireland, she taught at St Peter鈥檚 College, Oxford, and the National University of Ireland, Galway, before returning to Cambridge in 2019.
Other interests
Sleeping (history, theory and practice), art, cinema, hiking, and bees.
Department link
Publications, links and resources
- Barr, R.A, (2020), 鈥楤rightest wits and bravest soldiers: Ireland, Masculinity and the politics of paternity鈥, in Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-1780, M. Haslett, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Barr, R.A. (2020), 鈥楾he New Eighteenth-Century Ireland,鈥 Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
- Barr, R.A., Brady, S., McGaughey, J. eds. (2019), Ireland and Masculinities in History, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Barr, R.A., 鈥楳en, Women, and not quite non-persons: derivatization in 搁辞虫补苍补鈥, La Revue de Soci茅t茅 des 脡tudes Anglo-Am茅ricaines des XVII et XVIII Siecles (75), 2018.
- Barr, R.A., Kleiman-Lafon, S., and Vasset, S. eds. (2018), Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Barr, R.A. (2018), 鈥楧esire, Disgust, and indigestion in John Cleland鈥檚 Memoirs of a Coxcomb,鈥 Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century, pp. 227-251.
- Barr, R.A. (2018), 鈥樷淢oral Painting, by Way of Dialogue鈥: Shaftesbury in The Cry,鈥 Shaftesbury: Shaping Enlightenment Politics, ed. P. Mu虉ller ed., Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, pp. 237-254.
- Barr, R.A. (2016), 鈥楤arren desarts of arbitrary words鈥: language and communication in Collier and Fielding鈥檚 The Cry鈥, Women鈥檚 Writing, Volume 23, Issue 1(2016), 87-105.
- Barr, R.A. (2016), 鈥楾he man of feeling as dupe of desire: John Cleland鈥檚 'Memoirs of a Coxcomb鈥, Etudes Epist茅m猫, 30, 2016.
- Barr, R.A., and J. Tonra (2016), 鈥楢nnotation and the Social Edition,鈥 A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts, ed. H. Philips and C. Williams, Ashgate, pp. 117鈥120
- Barr, R.A. (2014), 鈥楤lack Transactions: waste and abundance in Samuel Richardson鈥檚 Clarissa,鈥 The Afterlife of Used Things: Recycling in the Eighteenth Century, A. Fennetaux, A. Junqua and S. Vasset eds., London: Routledge, pp. 199鈥211.
- Barr, R.A. (2013), 鈥Pathological Laughter and the response to ridicule: Samuel Richardson, Jane Collier and Sarah Fielding,鈥 La Revue de Soci茅t茅 des 脡tudes Anglo-Am茅ricaines des XVII et XVIII Siecles, XII-XIII (70) 2013, 223鈥246.
- Barr, R.A. (2012), 鈥榃.S. Graham and epistolarity,鈥 Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 1.4 (May), 51鈥63.
- Barr, R.A., (2011), 鈥樷淐omplete Hypocrite, Complete Tradesman鈥: Defoe鈥檚 Complete English Tradesman and masculine conduct,鈥 Positioning Daniel Defoe鈥檚 Non-fiction: Form, Function, Genre, ed. A. Mueller, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 67鈥85.
- Barr, R.A. (2010), 鈥楻esurrecting Saxon things: Peter Reading, 鈥榮pecies decline鈥 and Old English poetry,鈥 Bone Dreams: Anglo-Saxon Culture in the Modern Imagination, N. Perkins and D. Clark eds., Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, pp. 255鈥279.
- Barr, R.A. (2010), 鈥楾he Gothic in David Lynch: phantasmagoria and abjection,鈥 David Lynch in Theory, ed. F.X. Gleyzon, Litteraria Pragensia, pp. 132鈥146.
- Barr, R.A. (2010), 鈥楻ichardson鈥檚 Sir Charles Grandison and the symptoms of subjectivity,鈥 The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 51:4, Winter 2010, 1鈥24.
