Bärbel Czennia
Department of English, McNeese State University (retired January 2020)
bczennia@mcneese.edu

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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, 1990
M.A. [equivalent], Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, 1986
Study of English Language and Literature, German Language and Literature, Philosophy, and Pedagogy, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, 1980–1986

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor of English, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, August 2014–2020
Assistant Professor of English, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, 2007–2014
Senior Reader in English Literature, Georg August Universität Göttingen, Germany, 1994–2007
Full-time Researcher, Göttingen Center for the Advanced Study of Literary Translation, Georg August Universität Göttingen, Germany, 1990–1994

HONORS AND VISITING APPOINTMENTS
Juliet Hardtner Women in Arts & Humanities Endowed Professorship, McNeese State University, 2014
J. P. Morgan Chase Bank Endowed Professorship, McNeese State University, 2013
Research Fellow, Noel Memorial Foundation, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, LA, 2001
Research Fellow, Visiting Associate Member, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000
Guest Lecturer, Trans-European Mobility Program for University Studies (TEMPUS), Josef-Attilá- University, Szeged, Hungary, 1994
Grants for Travel to International Conferences and Research Libraries from: McNeese Foundation; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France; Universitätsbund Göttingen, Germany; Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Germany; - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
Intercultural exchanges, garden culture, literature and collective identity formation, literature and cultural memory, comparative studies (esp. cross-fertilization between “national” literatures and between literature and visual arts), British literature and culture of the long eighteenth century, science and the literary imagination, New Zealand literature in English, history of literary translation  

BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century (Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures, Series Editor Kat Lecky). Edited with Greg Clingham. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2020
Celebrity: The Idiom of a Modern Era (AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, 70). Edited with introduction and postscript by Bärbel Czennia. New York: AMS Press, 2013
Figurenrede als Übersetzungsproblem. Untersucht am Romanwerk von Charles Dickens und ausgewählten deutschen Übersetzungen (Neue Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 58, Series Editors Willi Erzgräber and Paul Goetsch). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1992

EDITORIAL WORK FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Book Review Editor, 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 2015–2018
Editorial Board Member, Eighteenth Century Thought, 2013–2017
Book Review Editor, British Literature, ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography, 2008–2015
Field Editor, British Literature, ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography, 2008–2015
Sub-Field Editor, New World Literatures and Cultures in English: Australia and New Zealand, ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography, 2004–2015

SCHOLARLY ESSAYS
Circa forty essays in peer-reviewed journals and collections throughout the world as well as scholarly encyclopedia entries, book reviews, and miscellaneous publications.

CONFERENCES AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Over fifty papers at academic conferences from Singapore to New Zealand, including more than twenty invited lectures and multi-media presentations.

TEACHING
Nearly thirty years of experience teaching regular graduate and undergraduate courses of English literature at universities in Germany and the United States as well as guest lectures and workshops in other parts of the world.