Undergraduate and MA Teaching
I teach courses in modern British history, including a survey course on British History from 1750, and more specialised courses on 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, medicine, pain, history of medicine and the medical humanities, and human/animal relations 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
- 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
- Psychopathy 1860s to 1960s
- Emotional Interactions Between Male Family Members in World War One
- The contribution of African and Caribbean troops to the First and Second World Wars
Since 2000, the following students of mine (sole supervisor in all cases) have been awarded PhDs:
Louise Hide, “Inside the Asylum: Gender and Class in English Mental Hospitals, 1890-1914”, 2011
Alena Papayanis, “The Gulf War Through the Lens of the Vietnam War”, 2011
Cormac Deane, "The Frame of Exception: US Film and TV Featuring Terrorism 1990-2010", 2010 (co-supervised with Professor Costas Douzinas)
Jane McGaughey, “Irish Masculinities in Ulster, 1890-1922”, 2008
Paul Hodges, “British Atrocities During the First World War”, 2005
Carmen Mangion, “Catholic Women Religious in C19 England and Wales”, 2004
Ivan Gibbons, “Irish Nationalism and the British Labour Party”, 2004
Sean Brady, “Homosexual Identities in C19 Britain”, 2003
Jim MacPherson, “Irish Women and Nationalism, 1890-1922”, 2003
Brian Green, “Social Change and Social Reform in Southwark and Bermonsey”, 2000
Since 2000, I have been the external examiners for the following PhDs:
Giulia ní Dhulchaointigh, “Irish People in London, 1900-1914”, Trinity College Dublin, 2013
Sarah Chaney, “Self-Mutilation and Psychiatry: Impulse, Identity, and the Unconscious in British Explanations of Self-Inflicted Injury, c. 1864-1914”, University College London, 2013
Greg J. Tinker, "The Cultural Memory of the Second World War: D-Day Veterans and Commemoration in Britain", University of Reading, 2013
Victoria Louise Bates, "Not an Exact Science Medical Approaches to Age and Sexual Offences in England, 1850-1914", University of Exeter, 2013
David Bruce Cherry, “Sex and Morale: The Sexual Life of the British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918”, University of Reading, 2012
Spiros Tsoutsoumpis, “Irregular Warfare in Occupied Greece: Masculinity and Morale in the S.O.E. and the Greek resistance”, University of Manchester, 2012
Clare Elizabeth Rhoden, “The Purpose of Futility: Leadership in Australian Great War Narrative”, University of Melbourne, 2011
Amanda Kaladelfos, “Crime and Outrage: Sexual Villains and Sexual Violence in New South Wales, 1870-1930”, University of Sydney, 2010
Marian Elizabeth Allsopp, “Invisible Wounds: A Genealogy of Emotional Abuse and Other Psychic Harms”, London School of Economics, 2009
Lisa Godson, “The Design of Public Events in the Irish Free State 1922-1929”, Royal College of Art, 2008
Anurag Jain, “Relations Between Ford, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Wells and British Propaganda During the First World War”, Queen Mary, University of London, 2008
Jane Tynan, “Representations of Soldiering, British Army Uniform, and the Male Body During the First World War”, University of the Arts, 2008
Susan Aspinall, “Nurture as well as Nature: Environmentalism in Representations of Women and Exercise in Britain, 1880-1920s”, University of Warwick, 2008
Stuart James Hogarth, “Reluctant Patients: Health, Sickness and Plebeian Masculinity in C19 Britain”, London Metropolitan University, 2008
Rachel Sarah Duffett, “A War Unimagined: Food and the Rank and File Soldiers of the First World War”, University of Essex, 2008
Elizabeth Roberts, “Freedom, Faction, Fame, and Blood: British ‘Soldiers of Conscience’ in Three European Wars”, University of Sydney, 2007
Gabriel Koureas, “Unconquerable Manhood: memory, Masculinity, and the Commemoration of the First World War in British Visual Culture, 1914-030”, Birkbeck (History of Art), 2004
Stephen Andrew Ball, “Policing the Land War”, Goldsmiths College, 2000
Rose Lindsey, “Nationalism and Gender: A Study of War-Related Violence Against Women”, University of Southampton, 2000
