Sally started following the journal Journal of the History of Sexuality.
Sally started following the journal GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
Sally started following the work of Heike Bauer, Birkbeck College, University of London, English and Humanities.
Department Member, Education
Research Fellow
About
My research is in the History of Emotions, with a focus on the politics of archival interpretation.
I am currently working on a monograph study which explores the relationship between cultural movements, (such as Aestheticism), and the history of sexual science. Emerging at the same time and sharing many of the same concerns (about sexual desire, behaviour and its regulation)—both have been credited with shaping modern notions of sexuality and selfhood—Aestheticism, through the appeal to self development and ‘liberty of the heart’; and Sexology, through the attempt to create medical taxonomies of sexuality and desire. Yet, the links between these cultural and scientific developments in late nineteenth-century Britain have not been extensively researched. The project will cast fresh light on these connections through an original exploration of the shared social networks of two key figures in the history of British Aestheticism and Sexology, John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), and Havelock Ellis (1859–1939).
In 2012-2011 I was a British Academy visiting scholar at King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/q@k/visiting/visting1011.as
