Dr Diana Barnes
Associate Professor in Literary Studies - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Phone: +61 2 6773 4382
Email: diana.barnes@une.edu.au
Biography
DIANA G. BARNES’ field of research is early modern literature with particular emphases on gender and the literary representation of nature and community. Her book Epistolary Community in Print, 1580-1664 was published with Ashgate in 2013. She has book chapters and journal articles on various C17th topics including Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Brilliana Harley’s wartime correspondence, Margaret Cavendish’s published plays and letters, Andrew Marvell’s challenging poem ‘Upon Appleton House’, and how early modern literature shaped the Australian settler-colonial mindset. Current research projects include a study of early modern women’s use of stoic discourse, emotions and letters, civility and early modern genres of community, cultures of compassion, and early modern bubbles.
