Dr. Jessica Barr
Assistant Professor
of English &
Director of the Honors Program at
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Current courses
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ENG425W
Seminar in English:
Feminism and Literature |
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ENG231
British Literature I: |
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ENG103W Academic Writing and Research |
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IDS101H First-Year Seminar (Honors Section) |
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Office hours
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Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 10-11, and by appointment. |
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(My
office is located in Burrus Dickinson 301.) |
Essential handouts for each course:
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Essential handouts for Honors
students:
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Recent courses:
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I teach
British and European Literature; my usual courses
include the British Literature surveys and seminars in British, European, and Classical
Literature. In the past, I’ve taught seminars on Gender and the Body in
the Middle Ages, Arthurian Literature, and “The Poetics of
Inspiration,” a course in which we explored writing that claimed to be
inspired by everything from God to opium.
Next semester
(Spring 2011), I will
be teaching a seminar in British Literature (ENG330W) that will focus on
Chaucer and his world—the literary, philosophical, and cultural context
in which he wrote. I will also teach ENG233 and IDS262 (Western Civilization
II) in the Spring.
My research focuses on medieval literature, particularly mystical
and vision literature of the later Middle Ages. I am especially interested in
women’s writing from the medieval period—by which I mean texts both
by and about women. I have published in Mystics
Quarterly (“The Meaning of the Word: Language and Understanding in
Marguerite d’Oingt,” March/June 2007) and have had an article
accepted for publication in Modern
Philology (“‘No
Fleschly Hert ne MiЗt Endeure’: Worldly Attachment and Visionary
Resistance in
I earned a
B.A. in English with a creative writing concentration at
Off-campus,
I enjoy fiction of all kinds (both reading and writing it), yoga, cooking,
knitting, book-binding, and travel. Most recently I spent a month in
Contact
me:
(309) 467-6337