Although there is debate about the application of modern concepts of 'gender' and 'sexuality' to the study of the Middle Ages, medieval case studies have been at the centre of […]
From the restrained and polished Polite Man and the sensitive Man of Feeling, to the sartorially extravagant Macaroni and the 'husbands and wives' of Molly Houses, the eighteenth century was […]
Elise Watson (she/her) is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the school of History, Classics and Archaeology. She researches and teaches on gender history and the history of the early printed […]
The first age of mass media, created by the printing press, led to a revolution in how gender was seen, portrayed, and understood in the early modern world. This course […]
Within the confines of Roman society, women were traditionally accorded private, domestic roles, but an intriguing body of inscriptions and material evidence from the empire's eastern provinces tells a markedly […]
This course provides an introduction to the field of Disability History and will explore how cognitive and physical difference have been understood and constructed in Europe and the Americas from […]
We all experience work as gendered beings, in a world structured by racial capitalism and the legacy of imperialism. Yet the mainstream historical narratives of economy and labour still resist […]
Weimar Berlin was a peculiar place. It was where deep cultural pessimism after a crushing defeat in World War 1 existed alongside an intoxicating atmosphere of novelty and daring experimentation. […]
Today, sex is at the tip of society's tongue. What really is this thing called 'sexuality' and how did it become such a ubiquitous social and political issue? This course […]
This course will examine the lives of women in late medieval England, from birth to death, by examining a range of primary source material both by and about women such […]
This course explores the history of engagement by women writers and artists with the place, idea, and myths of Greece. We first read ancient female writers -- preeminently Sappho -- […]
After studying for an undergraduate degree in English and History at the University of Sheffield (2007–2010) and an MA in Medieval and Renaissance Culture at the University of Southampton (2010–2011), […]
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