Role
Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the project 'Fatherhood and Masculinity in England c.1580-1720'.
Qualifications & background
PhD; PgCert; BA (Hons) History
Professional membership
Member of the Social History Society
Member of the Society for Renaissance Studies
Teaching interests
Early Modern Social and Cultural History
The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland
Gender History
The History of Masculinity
Research interests
My research is centred on the construction of gender identities during the early modern period. My PhD thesis identified the prescriptions and perceptions of manhood and manliness across the long seventeenth century, and began to explore the ways in which masculine identities altered over the course of the life span. I am particularly keen to develop my research by bridging family, gender and social history and embarking on an in-depth analysis of fatherhood and parenting during the early modern period.
Publications
Jennifer Jordan ed., ‘Desperate Housewives’: Politics, Propriety and Pornography, Three Centuries of Women in England (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2011).
‘Her-story Untold: The Absence of Women’s Agency in Constructing Concepts of Early Modern Manhood’, Social and Cultural History Journal (2007) vol. 4:4, pp. 575-583.
“Men Behaving Badly?’ Gentlemen, Rogues and Fellows in Elizabethan and Jacobean Nottinghamshire’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society (2006) vol. 110, pp. 59-67.
“To Make a Man Without Reason’: Examining Manhood in Early Modern England’, What is Masculinity?, eds. John Arnold and Sean Brady (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2011).
“Doublet-and-Hose Ought to Show Itself Courageous to Petticoat’: Cross-dressing and Constructing Gender in Early Modern England’, in ‘Desperate Housewives’: Politics, Propriety and Pornography, Three Centuries of Women in England ed. Jennifer Jordan (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2011), pp. 103-126.
‘Boys and Manliness in Early Modern England’, Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (under consideration).
“That ere with Age, His Strength is Utterly Decay'd’: Understanding the Male Body in Early Modern England’, Sexual Histories: Bodies and Desires Uncovered eds., Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, under contract).
Reports & invited lectures
Caunton Local History Society Public Lecture:
‘Men Behaving Badly in Seventeenth Century Nottinghamshire’. Presented 14 April 2009.
The Nottingham History Lecture for the Thoroton Society: ‘Gentlemen, Rogues and Fellows in Seventeenth Century Nottingham’. Presented Saturday 11 November 2006.
