Dominic Janes

Biography

Dominic Janes has MAs from Oxford University in History and from Birkbeck in Education and a PhD from Cambridge. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at KCL and Cambridge. He then worked as a director of studies for international students before moving to Birkbeck, University of London, then the University for the Arts London and finally to Keele. He has lived in several countries including Malawi, Iraq, Indonesia and the United States. He is also a Professorial Fellow in the Doctoral College, University for the Creative Arts.

Research and scholarship

Dominic Janes is a cultural historian who studies texts and visual images relating to Britain in its local and international contexts since the eighteenth century. Within this sphere he focuses on the histories of gender, sexuality and religion. He has written for a wide range of publishers including Cambridge, Chicago and Oxford University presses. He is completing a history of queer life at Oxbridge pre-1939 and co-editing (with Howard Chiang) the Oxford Handbook of LGBTQ History. He is the primary investigator working with Douglas Pretsell on a Leverhulme Project Grant (2025-2027) to explore the inclusion of homosexuality in the International Classification of Diseases. He is also co-editor (with Kate Thomas and Michael Bronski) of the book series Palgrave Studies in Queer Literary, Visual and Material Culture.

Teaching

Dominic Janes teaches, or co-teaches, a range of modules including:

HIS-10025 Medieval Europe
HIS-10039 Defining Moments in History
HIS-20071 Saints and Society in Medieval Europe
HIS-30103 History Dissertation
HIS-30127 Gender and Sexuality in Georgian Britain
HIS-30126 Gender and Sexuality in Victorian Britain
HIS-40002 Approaches to Historical Research (MA)

Publications

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Professor Dominic Janes

Biography

Research and scholarship

Teaching

Publications