Teresa Barnard is senior lecturer at the University of Derby, United Kingdom, teaching eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, and Derbyshire literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. Her research interests are in the area of long eighteenth-century women’s writing, and she has published several articles and chapters on the subject, including “Anna Seward’s Terrestrial Year: Women, Poetry and Science in Eighteenth-Century England” for Partial Answers and “‘The Midnight and Poetic Pageant’: An evening of Romance and Chivalry” for Cultural History. Her monograph, Anna Seward: A Constructed Life, a critical biography based on Seward’s unpublished manuscripts and censored letters, was published with Ashgate in 2009. She is currently working on a book of essays, British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century, also with Ashgate. She is advisor for the eighteenth century for the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Updated September 10, 2013