Barbara Seeber, Associate Professor

Office: GL 141
Extension: 3470; Email: bseeber@brocku.ca

Education:
Ph.D, Queen’s University, 1995
MA, University of Western Ontario, 1990
BA, University of Victoria, 1989

Research Interests:
Jane Austen
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Animal Studies
Adaptation

Teaching Areas:
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Animal Studies
Romanticism

Selected Publications:
General Consent in Jane Austen: A Study of Dialogism. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.

“‘I sympathize in their pains and pleasures’: Women and Animals in Mary Wollstonecraft.” Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World. Ed. Jodey Castricano. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2008. 223-240.

“A Bennet Utopia: Adapting the Father in Pride and Prejudice.” Persuasions On-Line 27.2 (2007).

“Monkeys, Bullfinches, Cats and Dogs in Frances Burney’s Fiction.” A Celebration of Frances Burney. Ed. Lorna J. Clark. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 100-111.

“The Hunting Ideal, Animal Rights, and Feminism in Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility.” Lumen 23 (2004): 295-308.

"Nature, Animals, and Gender in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Emma." LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 13.4 (2002): 269-285.

Links:
Department of English Language and Literature