Dr. Bärbel Czennia, Assistant Professor of English

M.A., Ph.D., Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Special Responsibilities

• Faculty Senator
• College of Liberal Arts Technology Committee (COLA), Departmental Representative
• MSU Withdrawal Appeals Committee, Member
• Webmaster, Department of English and Foreign Languages
• Editor, Newsletter, Department of English and Foreign Languages
• Local Press Liaison,Department of English and Foreign Languages

Teaching and Research Interests

• Literature and culture of the "long" eighteenth century
• Interactions between science (-s) and the literary imagination
• Literary translation
• Collective identities expressed in and through literature
• New Zealand and Australian literature and culture

Professional Activities and Affiliations

• Field Editor for British Literatures, ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography (click http://eccb.net)
• Member, South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS)
• Member, Southern Comparative Literature Association (SCLA)
• Member, South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)
• Member, European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS)

Selected Works

• (forthcoming) Editor, Celebrity: The Idiom of a Modern Era, New York: AMS Press (manuscript accepted by publisher).
• Editor, Special Journal Feature, Rakes, Male and Female, in the Literatures of the Eighteenth Century (Introduction and 5 Essays). 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 11 (2005):175-299.
• Figurenrede als Ubersetzungsproblem: Untersucht am Romanwerk von Charles Dickens und ausgewahlten deutschen Ubersetzungen [Direct Speech and Novel Translation: Charles Dickens's Characters in German Translations] (Neue Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik) Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 1992.

Essays

• "'Teach me to Hear the Mermaids Singing': Fishy Tales From the Long Eighteenth Century." The Sea in the Enlightenment, ed. Serge Soupel. New York: AMS Press (forthcoming)
• "Night-Skies Enlightened: Fireworks as Art, Science, Recreation, and Collective Symbol." The Enlightenment by Night: Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Kevin L. Cope, Alex Pettit, and Serge Soupel. New York: AMS Press, 2010. 29-88.
• "Historical Trauma, lieu de mémoire, Source of Collective Renewal: Parihaka in the Poetic Imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand." Shared Waters: Soundings in Postcolonial Literature. (Cross/Cultures 118). Ed. Stella Borg Barthet. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. 83-103.
• "Conrad's German Voices: Translating Narrative Innovation in Heart of Darkness." Conrad in Germany. Ed. Walter Goebel, Hans Ulrich Seeber, and Martin Windisch. Boulder: East European Monographs /Chichester: John Wiley, 2007. 35-68.
• "Daring Eccentrics: Popular Biography and Female Deviance in the Later Eighteenth Century. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Work, and Culture 4 (2006): 215-58
• "The Taming of the Rake: Congreve's The Way of the World on the German Eighteenth-Century Stage." 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 11 (2005): 265-99.
• "From Aeolus to Aerology, Or, Boreas Meets the Barometer: Clouds, Winds, and Weather Observation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry." Imagining the Sciences: Expressions of New Knowledge in the 'Long' Eighteenth Century, eds. Kevin L. Cope and Robert C. Leitz, III. New York: AMS Press, 2004. 3-57.
• "Cross-Cultural Encounters and Xenophobia in Contemporary New Zealand Children's Literature: Maurice Gee's Historical Novels The Fire-Raiser and The Champion." The Inside Story. Year Book 2002. Published by Storylines: Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand. Balmoral / Auckland: New Zealand, 2003. 69-92.
• "A Fairer England Neath Speckless Skies of Sunny Blue? Changing Designs of Collective Identity in Early New Zealand Poetry in English." Do the Americas Have a Common Literary History?, eds. Barbara Buchenau and Annette Paatz. Frankfurt/M., Zürich, New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 95-117.
• "Missionaries of the British Muse: Concepts of Literary Nation-Building in Early New Zealand Poetry in English." Missions of Interdependence. A Literary Directory, ed. Gerhard Stilz. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2002. 349-64.