Ros Ballaster - Curriculum Vitae#

Professional Qualification

• 2004 Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, UK Higher Education Academy Academic Positions
  
• 2009- Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Faculty of English, Oxford University and Professorial Fellow in English, Mansfield College
  
• 1995-2009 College and University Fellowship and lecturer in English Literature, Mansfield College, Oxford University
  
• 1993-1995 Special Non CUF lecturer in English, Mansfield College, Oxford University
  
• 1989-1993 Lecturer in English Literature, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia
  
• 1988-1998 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Visiting Fellow to Department of English and American Literature
  
• 1989 D.Phil English Literature (St Cross College) University of Oxford.
  
• 1984 B.A. English Language and Literature 1984 (First Class Hons). (St Hilda’s College) University of Oxford.
  

Positions outside of Oxford University (since 2000)

• 2014 Knowledge Exchange Fellow in theatre production and performance at Royal and Derngate Theater, Northampton
  
• 2014- present Referee for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  
• 2010-2013 External Examiner Master’s degree in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Southampton University
  
• 2007 Appointed as Peer Review College Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council on nomination of English Association
  
• 2006-2009 External examiner for MSt in English: Enlightenment to Romanticism, St Mary’s College, London University.
  
• 2006 Judge for Clifford Prize awarded by American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies for best essay in a refereed journal in the field.
  
• 2006- present Referee for Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
  
• 1994-2009 One of five editors of The English Review (Philip Allan/Hodder Education) quarterly publication for schools and colleges supporting A-level study in English literature. Author, commissioner and editor of numerous articles.
  
• 1994- External examiner for 7 doctoral theses (Edinburgh, Aberystwyth, Leeds, York, Royal Holloway London University, Liverpool, Kings)
  
• 1994- Regular reader of manuscript submissions to Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press monograph publications
  

Other academic activities

• 1994-2009 One of five editors of The English Review (Philip Allan/Hodder Education) quarterly publication for schools and colleges supporting A-level study in English literature. Author, commissioner and editor of numerous articles.
  
• 2013-2014 Chair of Steering Committee of Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities seminar and conference programme in ‘Gender, Women and Culture’
  
• 2009-11 Director of Graduate Studies in English Language and Literature
  
• 2006-2009 Humanities Division co-ordinator for CETL (Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning) funded by UK Higher Education Academy. Member of management and steering committee
  
• 2005 Designed and co-taught with Dr. Sharon Achinstein a weekly core seminar for the Master’s degree in English Literature 1550-1780. Taught the same course redesigned with Dr Emma Smith Michaelmas 2007.
  
• 2005 Designed and co-taught with Professor Deborah Cameron a weekly core seminar in feminist theory for the Master’s degree in women’s studies.
  

Books

2010 Ed. The History of British Women's Writing, 1690 - 1750: Volume Four (History of British Women’s Writing), 312 pages .Palgrave Macmillan (17 Sep 2010) .ISBN-10: 0230549381 ISBN-13: 978-0230549388 . Includes two essays by Ros Ballaster. ‘Introduction’ ,1-19 and ‘Critical Review’, 235-251

2005 Ed. Fables of the East: Selected Tales 1662-1785 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 277 pp. ISBN 0-19-926735-9

Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 405 pages. ISBN 0-19-9267330

1995 Ed. Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , Penguin Classics (London: Penguin, 1995) - a full textual edition with introduction (20 pages) and notes (21 pages).ISBN 0-14- 043425-9

1992 Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction 1684-1740 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 1992) 225 pages. Rpt in June 1994. ISBN 0-19-811233-0

1991 Ed. Delariver Manley, New Atalantis Pickering Women’s Classics Series (London: Pickering, Chatto and Windus, 1991). 305 pages. ISBN 1 -85196-020-1. Paperback from Penguin Classics in November 1992. ISBN 0-14-043370-8

1991 Co-authored with Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer and Sandra Hebron, Women’s Worlds: Ideology, Femininity and the Women’s Magazine, Macmillan women in society series (London: Macmillan). 196 pages. ISBN 0-333-49236-8 (cloth) 6(pbk).