
Professor Dominic Janes
- Title
- Professor of Modern History
- Location
- CBB 1.057
- Contact me
- Via tel or email
- Phone
- +44 (0) 1782 733009
- d.janes@keele.ac.uk
Biography
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
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
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
Publications
Journal Articles
- Janes, Dominic. 01-07-2024. 'Troubled by faith. Insanity and the supernatural in the age of the asylum. By Owen Davis. Pp. xiv + 350 incl. 6 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £25. 978 0 19 887300 6'. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. . 'Queer and Trans Martyrdom'. Brown Journal of World Affairs. view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 23-11-2024. 'LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives, by Simon Joyce'. The English Historical Review. DOI > view in repository >
- Brocket, Jane; Janes, Dominic. 15-05-2024. 'Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain*'. Journal of Religious History. DOI > view in repository >
- Brocket, Jane; Janes, Dominic. 15-05-2024. 'Hugh Easton's Neo-Baroque Art and the Stained-Glass Closet in Postwar Britain'. Journal of Religious History. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 14-03-2024. '“Chromatics and Vice”: Male Students, Race and Queerness at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1890s to 1930s'. WerkstattGeschichte. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 14-11-2023. 'Drag: A British History Jacob Bloomfield'. Journal of Social History. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 10-10-2023. 'Naked Civil Servant: Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas'. History Workshop Journal. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-04-2023. 'Paul R. Deslandes. The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 432. $45.00 (cloth).'. Journal of British Studies. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-01-2023. '“Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain, by Charles Upchurch'. Journal of the History of Sexuality. view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 08-08-2022. 'Strange gods: love and idolatry in the Victorian Novel: by Timothy L. Carens, New York, Routledge, 2022, 200 pp., $155 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-367-52509-5'. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 01-06-2022. 'The ‘curious effects’ of acting: homosexuality, theatre and female impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900-1939'. Twentieth Century British History. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 04-03-2022. 'The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950'. Journal of Social History. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-03-2021. '‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past'. Journal of European Popular Culture. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 04-01-2021. 'Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine'. Visual Culture in Britain. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-01-2021. 'The Rise of Victorian Caricature by Ian Haywood (review)'. VICTORIAN STUDIES. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 01-10-2020. '‘Religion, cross-dressing and sexual desire in the art of Simeon Solomon’, Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society'. PRS Review. view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-07-2019. 'Michèle Mendelssohn. Making Oscar Wilde. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 360. $24.95 (cloth).'. Journal of British Studies. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-04-2019. 'Angus McLaren. Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London.'. The American Historical Review. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 01-03-2018. 'Review of exhibitions British Library, “Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty” (2017) British Museum, “Desire, Love, Identity: Exploring LGBTQ Histories” (2017) Tate Britain, “Queer British Art, 1861-1967” (2017)'. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 27-04-2017. 'Early Twentieth-Century Vogue, George Wolfe Plank and the ‘Freaks of Mayfair’'. Visual Culture in Britain. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 19-05-2016. 'The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain'. Material Religion: the journal of objects, art and belief. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. . 'The wordless book: the visual and material culture of evangelism in Victorian Britain'. Material Religion: the journal of objects, art and belief. view in repository >
- Janes. 30-09-2015. 'Cecil Beaton, Richard Hamilton and the queer, transatlantic origins of pop art'. Visual Culture in Britain. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 01-05-2015. 'When 'perverts' were religious: the Protestant sexualisation of asceticism in nineteenth-century Britain, India and Ireland'. Cultural and Social History. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 01-03-2015. 'The scene of the crime: police photographs, visual culture and sexuality'. Legal Information Management. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 01-11-2014. 'Gothic visions of classical architecture in Hablot Knight Browne’s dark illustrations for the novels of Charles Dickens'. Gothic Studies. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 01-04-2014. 'Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes'. Literature and History. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 01-03-2014. 'The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion'. Victorian Periodicals Review. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 01-01-2014. 'Oscar Wilde, sodomy and mental illness in late Victorian England'. Journal of the History of Sexuality. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 25-10-2013. 'The confessional unmasked: religious merchandise and obscenity in Victorian England'. Victorian Literature and Culture. DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 01-07-2013. 'The gothic arousal of architecture in Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop and its illustrations'. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. DOI > view in repository >
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Books
- Janes, Dominic. 01-03-2022. 'British Dandies Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 29-07-2021. 'Freak to Chic "Gay" Men in and Out of Fashion After Oscar Wilde'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 23-02-2018. 'New Approaches in History and Theology to Same-Sex Love and Desire (Ed. Dominic Janes)'. . DOI > view in repository >
- Janes. 26-10-2016. 'Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 27-04-2015. 'Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-04-2015. 'Picturing the closet: male secrecy and homosexual visibility in Britain'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-05-2014. 'Martyrdom and terrorism: pre-modern to contemporary perspectives'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 14-02-2013. 'Back to the future of the body'. . view in repository >
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Book Chapters
- Janes. 03-11-2022. '‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’'. . DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-10-2020. '‘Princess Diana, the royal court, and the queer image of the modern British monarchy’'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 15-09-2020. 'The Oxford Movement, Asceticism, and Sexual Desire'. . DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. . 'Regarding Pratt and Smith, the last couple of sodomites to be hanged in Britain’'. . DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 11-06-2020. 'Entering the Eighteenth-Century Closet and Coming Out Today'. . DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-04-2019. '‘W. H. Spurgeon’s reading of material religion and the “battle of the styles” in Victorian church architecture'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 09-02-2018. '‘Eminently queer Victorians and the Bloomsbury Group’s critique of British leadership’'. . DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-10-2017. '‘Public lives, private passions’'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. . '‘Male homoerotic relations in history’'. . DOI > view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-08-2015. 'Early Victorian moral anxiety and the queer legacy of the eighteenth-century gothic revival'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 01-06-2014. 'John Foxe and British attitudes to martyrdom after the French Revolution'. . view in repository >
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Digital Artefacts
- Janes, Dominic. 02-10-2023. 'How often do you think about the Roman empire? TikTok trend exposed the way we gender history'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 29-06-2023. 'How 1920s high society fashion pushed gender boundaries through ‘freaking’ parties'. . view in repository >
- Janes, Dominic. 05-10-2021. 'Scruffy Boris Johnson’s ‘man of the people’ look is part of a long British tradition'. . view in repository >
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Working Paper
- Janes, Dominic. . 'Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany by Jeffrey Schneider (review)'. . view in repository >
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