Dr Ana Carden-Coyne
Contact Details
Centre for the Cultural History of War
School of Arts , Histories and Cultures
Email: a.cc@manchester.ac.uk
Humanities Limegrove, North Wing 2.13
Ph: 44 161 275 3094
Research Interests
- cultural impact of war
- war medicine & surgery
- peace & reconstruction
- memory & commemoration
- sexuality, gender & queer studies
- history and representation of the body
- disability studies (see Call 4 Papers)
- war, pain & recovery
Teaching Specilities
- War in History (1st Year)
- Great War, Myth and Memory (HI3670)
- Introducing: NEW MA program
- MA in War, Culture & History
- Core Course: Memory and War
We will be exploring one of the most significant and complex themes in the study of the war today - that of memory. Memory is an overarching intellectual question in the cultural history of war and has significant implications for personal and public perceptions about, as well as political uses of, the meaning and consequences of war. This course will introduce you to some of the most politically and emotionally charged issues that erupt as a result of war and its lingering impact on combatants, their families and communities, as well as subsequent generations.
A sample of options: Gender & War, Humanitarianism , Britain and Empire, Americanisation, Holocaust and Migration, Concepts in European History, and many more including FILMING WAR, FILMING HISTORY (a war and media skills course in conjunction with the Media Centre and the Imperial War Museum North).
Publications
'American Guts and Military Manhood', in Ana Carden-Coyne and Christopher E. Forth, Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion and Fat in the Modern World, ( New York : Palgrave, due Jan 2005)
'The Belly and Beyond: Body, Self and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times', co-authored with Christopher E. Forth, in Cultures of the Abdomen, 2005.
'From Pieces to Whole: The Sexualisation of Muscles in Post War Bodybuilding', in Christopher E. Forth and Ivan Crozier (eds), Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality, ( Lexington , forthcoming 2005).
'Gendering Death and Renewal: Classical Monuments of the First World War', Humanities Review, special monument edition, Paul Pickering (ed), September, 2004.
'Classical Heroism and Modern Life: Masculinity and Body Building in the Early Twentieth Century', Journal of Australian Studies, vol 63, 2000, pp.138-149.
Forthcoming:
Revenge of the Body: Classicism, Modernism and the First World War.'Cultural Representation of the Body',in Bill Bynum and Ivan Crozier (eds), History of the Body, 2005.
Current Projects
Men in Pain: Disability, Rehabilitation and Masculinity in War