Centre for British Studies

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Centre for British Studies Mohrenstr. 60

DE

10117 Berlin

heather.ellis@staff.hu-berlin.de

http://www.gbz.hu-berlin.de/staff/staff/profil-ellis

030/209399051

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

Lecturer and Researcher in British History

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

My post-doctoral project investigates the relationship between masculinity and scientific culture in Britain 1831-1939. It focuses on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, on the role which discourses of gender played in its foundation and development as well as in the self-perceptions of many of its leading members. In particular, the project considers to what extent the professionalisation of science within Britain in this period was shaped by concepts of masculine identity.

Frühere Position(en)

External Tutor in Modern History, Balliol College, Oxford
Associate Lecturer in History, Oxford Brookes University

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Ellis, Heather, Men of Reason: Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831-1939 (under contract with Palgrave Macmillan for inclusion in the series Genders and Sexualities in History)
Ellis, Heather, Generational Conflict and University Reform: Oxford in the Age of Revolution (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2012) as part of the series 'Scientific and Learned Cultures and their Institutions'

Artikel

Journal Articles:
Efficiency and Counter-Revolution: Connecting University and Civil Service Reform in the 1850s, History of Education (forthcoming 2012)
Reconciling Classical and Christian Culture: Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations in Victorian Scholarship, New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 7 (forthcoming 2012)
‘A Manly and Generous Discipline’?: Classical Studies and Generational Conflict in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Oxford, History of Universities 25/2 (2011), 143-172
What would Marcus Aurelius have done? Stoic Masculinity in Victorian Schooling, Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies 11 (Victorian Childhoods) (2010), 79-89
‘The nakedness of boy nature’: Anticipating Manhood at the English Public School in the Early Nineteenth Century, Sextant: Revue du Groupe interdisciplinaire d'Etudes sur les Femmes 27 (Winter 2009), 206-223
‘This starting feverish heart’: Matthew Arnold and the Problem of Manliness, Critical Survey 20:3 (Winter 2008), 97-115
Boys, Boyhood and the Construction of Masculinity: Guest Editor’s Introduction, Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies 2:2 (Fall 2008), 119-124
Book Chapters:
Scholarly Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange between Universities in Britain and the Empire in P. Meusberger, M. Heffernan and H. Jöns eds. Spatial Mobility of Knowledge Vol. 10 Knowledge and Space series (forthcoming, Springer Verlag, 2012)
National and Transnational Spaces: Academic Networks and Scholarly Transfer between Britain and Germany in the Nineteenth Century in I. Loehr and R. Wenzlhuemer eds. The Nation State and Beyond: Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (forthcoming Springer Verlag, 2012)
‘Boys, semi-men and bearded scholars’: Maturity and Manliness in Early Nineteenth-Century Oxford in S. Brady and J. H. Arnold eds. What is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 263-283
Elite Education and the Development of Mass Elementary Schooling in England, 1870-1930 in L. Brockliss and N. Sheldon eds. Mass Education and the Limits of State Building (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 46-70
Corporal Punishment in the English Public School in the Nineteenth Century in L. Brockliss and H. Montgomery eds. Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition (Oxbow Books, 2010), 141-146
(with J. Meyer) Introduction in Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 1-19
Newman and Arnold: Classics, Christianity and Manliness in Tractarian Oxford in C. Stray ed. Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800-2000 (Duckworth, 2007), 46-63

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Edited Volumes:
(Co-ed. with J. Meyer) Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)
Journal Special Issues:
Social Justice (forthcoming 2012) 'Juvenile Delinquency and the State: Twentieth Century Contexts'
(Co-ed. with Georgia Christinidis) Journal of the Knowledge Economy (forthcoming 2012) 'The Changing Role of the Humanities in the Academy and Society'
Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies 2:2 (Fall 2008) ‘Boys, Boyhood and the Construction of Masculinity’

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

19th century British history, imperial and commonwealth history, global history, transnational history