Undergraduate and MA Teaching
I teach courses in modern British history, including Literature and Film between 1914 and 1945, Gender in Modern Britain, and the Cultural History of Modern Warfare.
Postgraduate Teaching
I am interested in supervising PhD students engaged in research in the social history of modern Britain, Ireland, America, Australia, and New Zealand. Students with an interest in the history of gender (masculinity as well as femininity), modern warfare, sexual violence, the emotions, the body, and medicine are welcomed.
Recent and current PhD students conduct research on the following topics:
- Male heterosexuality in the C20
- Civilian neuroses during the Second World War
- British Prisoners of War during the Second World War
- British atrocities in the First World War
- Irish femininity and nationalism, 1890-1923
- Nuns in nineteenth-century England
- A cultural history of the navy and air force during the First World War
- Beef and Britishness from late C19 to mid-C20
- Gender in asylums, 1890-1914
- The (first) Gulf War in relation to the war in Vietnam
- Religion and spirituality in the trenches, 1914-18
- The British Labour Party and the Establishment of the Irish Free State
- War reporters during the Vietnam War
- The rhetoric of terrorism since the 1980s