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BA(Hons) PhD(Well)Chris Brickell profile image

Professor in Gender Studies

Contact details

Room R6C22, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 479 8184
Email chris.brickell@otago.ac.nz

Much of my research focuses on the connections between sexuality, gender and identity, and draws from sociological, historical and geographical approaches.

I have recently published editions of the diaries of writers James Courage and Robert Lord. I am currently writing on the relationships between queerness, performativity, affect, space and time. I am also researching the history of New Plymouth Prison between 1917 and 1952, when the jail mostly housed men arrested for homosexual offences. This project explores the connections between popular and professional ideas about sexuality, prisoners’ experiences and self-understandings, and modes of carceral control.

Further details of my research projects, and my blog, can be found at www.brickell.co.nz

Courses

GEND 102 Bodies, Sexualities and Selves
GEND 206 / 306 Gender, Work and Consumer Culture
GEND 207 / 307 Masculinities
GEND 401 Debates in Gender and Sexuality

Postgraduate supervision

  • Sexuality
  • Gay studies
  • Masculinity
  • Histories of adolescence
  • Affect, identities and space
  • Visual sociology and visual history

Publications

Brickell, C. (2024). Who’s afraid of performativity? Proceedings of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Conference: The Sociology to Come. Retrieved from https://www.saanz.net/saanz2024/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Brickell, C. (2024). The rough and the tumble: Queer themes in Robert Lord’s plays. Australasian Drama Studies, (84), 125-148. doi: 10.3316/informit.T2024061000002791418356894 Journal - Research Article

Brickell, C. (2024). The material culture of the history of sexuality. In M. E. Wiesner-Hanks & M. Kuefler (Eds.), The Cambridge world history of sexualities: Volume 1: General overviews. (pp. 467-492). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108895996 Chapter in Book - Research

Brickell, C. (2024). New Zealand’s military and the disciplining of sex between men, 1940–1960. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 33(2), 188-210. doi: 10.7560/JHS33202 Journal - Research Article

Brickell, C. (2024, February). The varied path: Reflections on the road to equality. Panel discussion at the Summer School | Scoil Samhraidh | Te Kura Raumati: A Social revolution: A reflection on the history, journey and activism of the Rainbow Community, Embassy of Ireland, Wellington, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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