Dr Sean Brady
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr Sean Brady joined the department in 2005, following the completion of his PhD at Birkbeck. In 2006-2008, he was a Leverhulme postdoctoral fellow in the department at Birkbeck, and has been lecturer in the department since the completion of this fellowship.
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Research
Research
Research overview
My research focuses on gender, sexuality, politics and religion in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and Ireland.
My book, Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913, examines masculinity and attitudes to homosexuality in Britain before the First World War. Cultural abhorrence of sexuality between men is examined through developments in masculinity as a social status. The book explores these themes in relation to the family, married homosexual men, legislation and the Home Office, the medical profession and journalism. My interests focus also on masculinities in the longue durée, and the potentials for comparative approaches in the history of gender and sexuality.My current research also examines religion and sectarianism in relation to masculinities in Northern Ireland after 1921, and I am working on a book, Northern Ireland: A Gendered History.
Along with Dr Matt Cook, Dr Julia Laite and historians from across the country, I am a convener for the new History of Sexuality seminar series at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), London. The new seminar series will be launched on Tuesday 7th January 2014 at 6 p.m. At this event, a roundtable of speakers will discuss the question 'What is the History of Sexuality?'. More details for this launch event and seminar, and also for information about other IHR seminars.
I am convening editor for Palgrave Macmillan's series 'Genders and Sexualities in History'. -
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Gender, Sexuality, Politics and Religion in Britain and Ireland after 1800.
Current doctoral researchers
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AIDAN MULLETT
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CATHERINE MEREDITH
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DANNY MCMILLAN
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EDMUND LYON
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ELAINE MURPHY
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KATE HART
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MARY HEFFERNAN
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SARAH GOLDING
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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GABRIELLA MARIA ROMANO
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GABRIELLA MARIA ROMANO
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BEN BETHELL
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SEÁN NEWMAN
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MARIAN FLINT
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VICKY RUSSELL
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Theorising Gender (FDGD009S7)
- Foundations of History (FFHI318S6)
- Foundations of History (FFHI318S6)
- Intimate Britain: Family, Society and Culture, 1832-1918 (HICL197S6)
- Approaching the Past (HICL200S4)
- Ideas Transmission History (SC03005S7)
- The Two Irelands 1911-1998 (SSHC351S7)
- Exploring the Past (SSHC407S5)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Brady, Sean (2018) "Save Ulster from Sodomy!" Homosexuality in Northern Ireland after 1967. Cultural and Social History ISSN 1478-0038.
- Brady, Sean (2013) Mark McCormack, "The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality". Sexualities 16 (1-2), pp. 236-237. ISSN 1363-4607.
- Brady, Sean (2008) Masculinity and the question of male homosexuality in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Gender History (Japan) 4, pp. 69-86.
Book
- Brady, Sean (2012) John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) and Homosexuality: A Critical Edition of Sources. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230517394.
- Arnold, John H. and Brady, Sean, eds. (2011) What is masculinity: historical dynamics from antiquity to the contemporary world. Transformations of the State. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230278134.
- Brady, Sean (2005) Masculinity and male homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913. Basingstoke, Hants.: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403947130.
Book Review
- Brady, Sean (2016) Dominic Janes, Picturing the Closet: Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain.
- Brady, Sean (2016) Clothing and Poverty in Nineteenth-century England.
- Brady, Sean (2006) Book review: all about Eve? queer theory and history.
Book Section
- Brady, Sean (2022) Sectarianism and queer lives in Northern Ireland since the 1970s.. In: Cook, Matt and Bengry, J. and Oram, A. (eds.) Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces Across the UK. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 49-62. ISBN 9781350143722.
- Brady, Sean (2015) John Addington Symonds, Horatio Brown and Venice: friendship, gondoliers and homosexuality. In: Babini, V.P. and Beccalossi, C. and Riall, L. (eds.) Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914. Genders and Sexualities in History. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 207-227. ISBN 9781137396976.
- Brady, Sean (2013) Why examine men, masculinities and religion in Northern Ireland?. In: Delap, L. and Morgan, S. (eds.) Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth Century Britain. Genders and Sexualities in History. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 218-251. ISBN 9781137281746.
- Brady, Sean (2012) Homosexuality: European and colonial encounters. In: Beccalossi, C. and Crozier, I. (eds.) A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire. The Cultural Histories Series. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers. pp. 43-62. ISBN 9781847888044.
- Cook, Matt (2011) Homes fit for homos: Joe Orton, masculinity, and the domesticated queer. In: Arnold, John H. and Brady, Sean (eds.) What is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World. Genders and Sexualities in History. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230278134.
- Brady, Sean (2009) Masculinity and the construction of male homosexuality in modern Britain before the first world war. In: Ellis, H. and Meyer, J. (eds.) Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars. pp. 115-137. ISBN 9781443801515.