Professor John Barrell FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2001
- Subjects
- Art history, Literature
Summary
John Barrell was a lecturer in the Department of Literature at the University of Essex in the Department of Literature from 1968, before being appointed, in 1972, a lecturer in English at Cambridge and a fellow of King's. In 1986 he became Professor of English at the University of Sussex, moving to the University of York in 1993. From 2013-2015 he was Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London (now Emeritus). He has held visiting professorships at the universities of Chicago, Warsaw, and elsewhere, and has honorary degrees from Chicago and the Courtauld Institute. His work is multi-disciplinary, combining literary criticism, the history of art, and cultural and political history, almost always with reference to Britain in the long eighteenth century. He has written at length of such subjects as landscape art and the sense of place, political theory and theories of art, politics, propaganda and the law in the age of the French revolution. He is now working on the songs of Thomas Moore, and on the politics of the Royal Academicians in the 1790s. For more, see https://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/our-staff/barrell/
Current post
Emeritus Professor of English, Queen Mary University of London
Past appointments
Queen Mary University of London Emeritus Professor of English
2017 -
Queen Mary University of London Professor of English
2013 - 2017
University of York Professor of English
1993 - 2012
School for Global studies, University of Sussex Professor of English
1986 - 1993
King's College University of Cambridge Fellow
1972 - 1985
Publications
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Early Modern English Literature; relationships with classical literature, theory and practice of literary imitation, textual editing, literary history, Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton.
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Professor Robert S C Gordon FBA
The cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature (Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust
