Rebecca Anne Barr

Rebecca Anne Barr is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College. Her research intersects gender, sexuality, and the eighteenth-century novel with interdisciplinary links to medical humanities and reproductive justice. She has led projects like the 2019 Irish Research Foundation Creative Connections Award on fertility politics and serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Medical Humanities.

• Research Interests: Eighteenth-century literature, gender studies, medical humanities, reproductive justice, and interdisciplinary analysis of satire and language.
• Key Projects: Crausaz Wordsworth Interdisciplinary Fellowship (2022-23), upcoming Keough-Naughton Library Research Award (2024) for Jonathan Swift studies.
• Publications: Authored and co-edited works on women's writing, Irish masculinity, and the cultural politics of reproduction. Her forthcoming monograph Killjoy Comedy (2025) explores humor in 1750s fiction.

Notable Awards:

• 2019 Irish Research Foundation Creative Connections Award
• 2023 Crausaz Wordsworth Interdisciplinary Fellowship
• 2024 Keough-Naughton Library Research Award

Teaching and Leadership: Convened the Cambridge MPhil in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies (2020-22) and chaired the Faculty's EDI committee (2021-2023). She welcomes graduate research proposals in her core areas.