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Dr Karen HarveyB.A. (Manc.), M.A., Ph.D. (Lond.)Reader in Cultural History Cultural History of the long 18th century; gender, the body & the domestic interior Office Hours: Spring 2012-13 - Thursdays 9-11am |
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Major Publications
Links
Displaying Drink, 1650 and 1850 Project Materializing Culture Research Group Eighteenth-Century Studies Group
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Biography
Karen Harvey read Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, before moving to Royal Holloway, University of London where she gained an MA in Women's History and later her PhD. She subsequently worked on the project 'Women, Work and the Industrial Revolution, 1760-1840' at Manchester University, was then appointed to the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior (at the Royal College of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Royal Holloway), before joining the history department in 2003. Karen has held fellowships at the Clark Library, UCLA and the Huntington Library. Since joining the department in 2003, Karen has sought to establish interdisciplinary research links within the University and Sheffield. She co-organized the conference 'Domesticity' in 2007, is a founder member of the Sheffield Materializing Culture Research Network, is part of the Eigheenth-Century Research Group, and is currently Academic in Residence at Bank Street Arts. Karen was awarded a Senate Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching in 2007. Membership of Professional Bodies
Karen is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Research
Current Research Karen has just completed a cultural history of men and the house, The Little Republic (OUP, 2012). This reconstructs men’s experiences of the house, examining the authority that accrued to mundane and everyday household practices and employing men’s own concepts to understand what men thought and felt about their domestic lives. Alongside this project – which draws on men’s everyday domestic manuscripts – Karen has been developing an interest in the connections between space, manuscript practices and print, examined in a case-study of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. This interest prompted Karen to become the first Academic in Residence at Bank Street Arts, housed in a row of late-Georgian buildings. Karen also continues to work on the body, material culture and masculinity, and other work in progress explores men's legs, dance and clothing, and drinking objects and politics. Karen is also participating in collaborative projects on the art and design of industry and the history of sex education through print.
Research Interests Karen is a cultural historian of the British long eighteenth century, with a special interest in gender. She uses a wide range of written, visual and material sources in her research, and similarly employs a number of different approaches. She is committed to interdisciplinarity, exemplified by her role in the network 'Materializing Culture', and the conferences on Home Life and Domesticity. A particular interest in the body and sexuality led her to write an account of the erotic culture of the eighteenth century, Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), and to edit The Kiss in History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005). She has ongoing research interests in masculinity, print culture (both visual and textual), material culture, and what might be termed the rather more 'impolite' aspects of the eighteenth century. Karen also has an interest in contemporary representations - both historiographical and popular - of the eighteenth-century past, including those in films and museums.
Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement Karen represented the department on the University's Social Science Knowledge Exchange Forum. In 2007 she won a University of Sheffield 'Knowledge Transfer Opportunities Fund' grant, supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund, for the project 'Displaying Drink: Ritual at the Eighteenth-Century Table'. For more information on the project, and on the resulting display at Museums Sheffield, see the link under 'Projects' opposite'. Karen has been Academic in Residence at Bank Street Arts, in Sheffield, since September 2012. During the Residency she has examined her research on men and the house in the context of these Georgian domestic spaces and alongside artists working in a range of media, and has also established an archive for the centre. She is also exploring how the model of the ‘Academic in Residence’ might move the academy past the more conventional models of academic consultancy or knowledge transfer. See here for more information: http://bankstreetarts.com/people/residencies/dr-karen-harvey/
Research Supervision Karen welcomes postgraduate students working on any aspect of cultural or social history from 1650 to 1850, and particularly those interested in gender, sexuality, material culture, the domestic interior and popular representations of the early modern. Current PhD Students: Laura Bracey, Women in the Sheffield metal trades (AHRC funded, in partnership with Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust) Nigel Cavanagh, A study of the Elsecar community from the late eighteenth century (AHRC funded, in partnership with Barnsley Museums) Nicola Walker, Community, Family and Industry at Cannon Hall (AHRC funded, in partnership with Barnsley Museums) Responsibilities
Karen has served as a member of many of the department's committees, and has been involved in the planning of teaching at all levels. Outside the Department, Karen has been a member of the Arts Faculty Board, the Faculty of Arts Learning and Teaching Quality Committee and the Social Science Knowledge Transfer Forum. Amongst her current responsibilities, Karen is Director of MA Programmes and Impact Officer in the History Department. She is also an Assistant Faculty Director of Learning and Teaching, with responsibility for Student Affairs. Selected Publications
Books / Special Issues - The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2012). - History and Material Culture: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (ed.) (Routledge, March 2009) - The Kiss in History (ed) (Manchester University Press, 2005). - Special Feature on Masculinities in The Journal of British Studies (ed. with Alexandra Shepard), 44, 2 (April 2005) - Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture (Cambridge University Press, January 2004)
Essays - 'Masculinity Acquires a History’, in Sarah Foot and Nancy Partner (eds), The Handbook of Historical Theory (in press with Sage, forthcoming 2012). - 'Ritual encounters: punch parties and masculinity in the eighteenth century', Past and Present, 214 (2012), pp. 165-203. - 'Visualizing Reproduction: a Cultural History of Early-Modern and Modern Medical Illustrations', Journal of Medical Humanities, 31, 1 (2010), pp. 37-51. - 'Men Making Home: Masculinity and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century England', Gender & History,, 21, 3, November 2009, pp. 520-540. - 'Barbarity in a tea-cup? Punch, domesticity and gender in the eighteenth century', Journal of Design History, 21, 3 (2008), pp. 205-221. - 'The History of Masculinity, circa 1650-1800', article in (ed.) a Special Feature on Masculinities in The Journal of British Studies, 44, 2 (2005), pp. 296-311. - 'What Have Historians Done with Masculinity? Reflections on Five Centuries of British History, circa 1500-1950', (with Alexandra Shepard) introduction to a Special Feature on Masculinities in The Journal of British Studies, 44, 2 (2005), pp. 274-80. - 'Sexuality and the Body', in Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (eds), Women’s History: Britain, 1700-1850 (Routledge, 2005), pp. 78-99. - 'Spaces of Erotic Delight' in Miles Ogborn & Charles W.J. Withers (eds), Georgian Geographies: Space, Place and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester University Press, 2004), pp. 130-50. - 'Gender and trade in Manchester, 1780-1840' (with Hannah Barker), in Rosemary Sweet and Penny Lane (eds) 'On the town': Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England, c.1660-1820 (Ashgate, 2003), pp. 111-129. - 'The Substance of Sexual Difference: Change and Persistence in Eighteenth-Century Representations of the Body', Gender and History, 14, 2 (2002), pp. 202-23. - 'A Century of Sex? Gender, Bodies and Sexuality in the Long Eighteenth Century', The Historical Journal 45, 4 (2002), pp. 899-916. - 'Gender, Space and Modernity in Eighteenth-Century England: A Place called Sex', History Workshop Journal, 51 (2001), pp. 158-79. - '"The Majesty of the Masculine Form": Multiplicity and Male Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Erotica', in Tim Hitchcock and Michele Cohen (eds) English Masculinities, 1660-1800 (Longman, 1999), pp. 193-214. |
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