Background
Barrell, John Charles was born on February 3, 1943 in Carshalton, Surrey, England. Son of John Ellis and Beatrice Mary Barrell.
Barrell, John Charles was born on February 3, 1943 in Carshalton, Surrey, England. Son of John Ellis and Beatrice Mary Barrell.
Bachelor in English, Cambridge University, England, 1964. Master of Arts in English, Cambridge University, England, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy in English, Cambridge University, England, 1971.
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. 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. In 1992, Barrell married Harriet Guest in London.
Guest is professor emerita of English, University of New York
Fellow: English Association, British Academy (readership 1991-1993).
Married Harriet Claire Guest, February 1, 1991. 1 child Helena Frances. Married Audrey Frances Jones, January 30, 1965 (divorced 1975).
Children: John Matthew, Joseph Ezra.