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John Charles Barrell FBA FEA (born February 1943) is a British scholar of eighteenth and early nineteenth century studies.
John Barrell was born in February 1943.[ citation needed ] He took his first degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, and his PhD at the University of Essex. [1]
Barrell was a lecturer in the Department of Literature at Essex for four years from 1968. In 1972 he took up a lectureship in the Faculty of English at Cambridge and a fellowship at King's College, Cambridge. He was appointed to a chair in English at the University of Sussex in 1985 and was Professor of English at the University of York from 1993 to 2012, where he was one of the founders of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. In January 2013 he became Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London, and, since January 2016, has been Professor Emeritus there. He has held a British Academy readership and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.[ citation needed ]
Barrell's main research is within the field of literature, history and art in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain. This focuses particularly on language, landscape, law, empire, theories of society and progress, and the theory of painting.[ citation needed ]
Described by Colin McCabe as "the finest literary critic of our generation", [2] Barrell has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Chicago (2008) and by the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (2010). He is an honorary fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the English Association. [3]
In 1992, Barrell married Harriet Guest in London. [4]
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