Professor Frank Mort
Professor of Cultural Histories, Director of CIDRA
Humanities Lime Grove (formerly the Arts Building)
A15 (Ground floor, right hand corridor)
Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 8965
Email: Frank.Mort@manchester.ac.uk
Career
I formally took up the post of Professor of Cultural Histories and Director of CIDRA at the University of Manchester in 2005, spending 2004-5 as Visiting Professor at Princeton. Previously I was in post as Professor of Cultural History and Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the University of London (1998-2004).
Research Areas
Modern British cultural history with specific reference to the following:
- Cultural and moral change in post-war Britain.
- Metropolitan cultural geography: London in the mid-twentieth century.
- The cultural Atlantic: consumer culture in Britain and the USA 1920-1960.
- Medico-moral politics and the regulation of sexuality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.
Publications
Books
Dangerous Sexualities.; Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830 , second revised edition with new introduction, Routledge, London, 250pp, 2000.
Dangerous Sexualities.; Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830 , Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1987, 280 pp.
Cultures of Consumption.; Masculinities and Social Space in Late-Twentieth Century Britain, Routledge, London, 1996, 280 pp.;
Cultures of Consumption: Masculinities and Social Space in Late-Twentieth Century Britain, Chinese edition, Nanjing University Press, 2000.
Edited Collections and Edited Journals
Transforming Metropolitan London 1750-1960, special issue, Journal of British Studies, co-edited with M. Ogborn, vol. 43, no.1, January 2004.
Commercial Cultures:; Economies, Practices and Spaces , edited with P. Jackson, M. Lowe and D. Miller, Berg, Oxford, 2000, pp. 284.
Moments of Modernity.; Reconstructing Britain 1945-64 , edited with B. Conekin and C. Waters, Rivers Oram Press/ New York University Press, London and New York, 1999, 290pp.
Sexual Geographies , edited with L. Nead, New Formations, no. 37, 1999.
Women Take Issue:; Aspects of Women's Subordination , Women's Studies Group, Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies (eds), Hutchinson, London, 1978, 216 pp.
Refereed Articles
"Conservative Modernities: London in the 1950s, Representations, forthcoming.
'Foucault Recalled: Interview with Michel Foucault,' with Roy Peters, New Formations, No. 55, Summer 2005.
'Fantasies of Metropolitan Life: Planning London in the 1940s', Journal of British Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, January 2004, pp. 120-51.
'Transforming Metropolitan London 1750-1960', with M. Ogborn, Journal of British Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, January 2004, pp. 1-16.
'Social and Symbolic Fathers and Sons in Postwar Britain', Journal of British Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, July 1999, pp. 353-84.
'Mapping Sexual London:; the Wolfenden Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution', Sexual Geographies, New Formations, 1999, no. 37, pp. 92-113.
'Cityscapes:; Consumption, Masculinities and the Mapping of London since 1950', Urban Studies, vol. 35, nos 5-6, 1998, pp. 889-907.
'Sexuality, Modernity and the Victorians', with L. Nead, Journal of Victorian Culture,; No. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 118-30.
'Archaeologies of City Life:; Commercial culture, Masculinity and Spatial Relations in 1980s London', Environment and Planning D:; Society and Space, Vol. 13, No. 5, October 1995, pp. 573-90.
'Crisis Points:; Masculinities in History and Social Theory', Gender and History, Vol. 6, No. 1, April 1994, pp.124-30.
'Look out for the "Good Time Girl:; Dangerous Sexualities as a Threat to National Health', with L. Bland, in Formations of Nation and People, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1984, pp.131-51.
'Sex, Signification and Pleasure', in Formations of Pleasure, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1983, pp.36-43.
'Visual Representation and Cultural Politics', with N. Green Block, No. 7, 1982, pp.59-68.
'The Domain of the Sexual', Screen Education, No. 36, Autumn 1980, pp.69-84.
Book Chapters
'Competing Domains: Democratic Subjects and Consuming Subjects in Britain and the United States since 1945,' in F. Trentmann (ed.), Knowing Consumers: Actors, Images, Identities in Modern History, Berg, Oxford, forthcoming, 2005.
'The Sexual Geography of the City', in S. Watson and G. Bridge (eds) A Blackwell Companion to the City, Blackwell, Oxford, 2000, pp. 307-15.
'The Commercial Domain:; Advertising and the Cultural Management of Demand in Post-War Britain', in B. Conekin, F. Mort, C. Waters (eds) Moments of Modernity.; Rethinking Britain since 1945 , Rivers Oram Press/ New York University Press, London/ New York, 1999, pp. 55-75.
'Introduction', in B. Conekin, F. Mort, C. Waters (eds) Moments of Modernity, ibid., pp. 1-21.
'Thinking Sex Historically', with L. Bland, in L. Segal (ed.), New Sexual Agendas, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1997, pp. 17-31.
'Paths to Mass Consumption:; Britain and the USA since 1945', in M. Nava et. al. (eds), Buy this Book.; Studies in Advertising and Consumption, Routledge, London, 1996, pp. 15-33.
'Visual Representation and Cultural Politics', with N. Green, in J. Bird, et. al. (eds.), The Block Reader, Routledge, London, 1996, pp. 226-41.
'Essentialism Revisited?; Identity Politics and Late Twentieth Century Discourses of Homosexuality', in J. Weeks (ed), The Lesser Evil and the Greater Good.; The theory and politics of social diversity, Rivers Oram Press, London, 1994, pp.201-21.
'The Politics of Consumption', in S. Hall and M. Jacques (eds), New Times.; The Changing Face of Politics in the 1990's, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1989, pp.160-72.
'Boy's Own?; Masculinity, Style and Popular Culture', in R. Chapman and J. Rutherford (eds), Male Order: Unwrapping Masculinity, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1988, pp.193-224.
'Health and Hygiene.; Medico-Moral Politics in Edwardian Britain', in J. Beckett and D. Cherry (eds), The Edwardian Era, Phaidon. Oxford, 1987, pp.26-33.
'Purity, feminism and the state:; sexuality and moral politics 1880-1914', in M. Langan and B. Schwarz (eds), Crises in the British State 1880-1930, Hutchinson, London, 1985, pp.209-25.
'Sexuality: Regulation and Contestation', in V. Beechey and J. Donald (eds), Subjectivity and Social Relations, Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1985, pp.202-11.
'Introduction to Language Studies at the Centre', with A. Tolson and C. Weedon, in S. Hall et al (eds), Culture, Media, Language: working papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79, Hutchinson, London, 1981, pp.177-94.
'Theories of Language and Subjectivity', with A. Tolson and C. Weedon, in S. Hall et al (eds), Culture, Media, Language, ibid., pp.195-216.
'Patriarchal Aspects of Nineteenth Century State Formation:; Property Relations, Marriage and Divorce and Sexuality', with R. Harrison, in P. Corrigan (ed), Capitalism, State Formation and Marxist Theory, Quartet, London, 1980, pp.79-109.
'Sexuality and Reproduction:; Three "official instances', with L. Bland and T. McCabe, in M. Barrett et al (eds), Ideology and Cultural Production, Croom Helm, London, 1979, pp.78-111.
'Psychoanalysis and the cultural acquisition of sexuality and subjectivity', with S. Burniston and C. Weedon, in Women's Studies Group, Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies (eds), Women Take Issue, ibid, pp.109-31.
'Relations of Reproduction:; Approaches through anthropology', with L. Bland, R. Harrison and C. Weedon, in Women Take Issue, ibid., pp.155-75.
Research Awards and Fellowships
2004-05 |
Davis Center Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Department of History, Princeton University. |
2004-05 |
Forbes Fellow, Forbes College, Princeton University. |
2005 |
British Academy, Overseas Travel Grant |
2004-07 |
British Academy, International Networks Scheme, for international seminar series with Department of History and Centre for Metropolitan Studies, New York University on 'The Urban Atlantic: Comparative and Transnational City Cultures in London and New York,' jointly with Department of Geography Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University |
2002-03 |
Economic and Social Research Council research seminar competition for 'London's Modernities 1760-1960,' jointly with Department of Geography Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University |
2001-2002 |
Research Fellowship, National Humanities Center, North Carolina, USA. |
1999-2000 |
Arts and Humanities Research Leave Scheme Award to work on 'Metropolitan Culture and Moral Change in London 1945-63.' |
1998 |
British Academy Overseas Travel Grant |
1997 |
Economic and Social Research Council research seminar competition for 'Commercial Cultures:; Economies, Histories, Spaces.' |
1992 |
Project award from Polytechnic Funding Council funds for research on 'Economic Strategy, Political Discourse and Cultural Experience: The Role of Consumption in Britain 1945-64'. |
Postgraduate Supervision and Teaching Areas
Current supervision of four PhD students:
I have supervised three Ph'D students to successful completion, and have examined twelve Ph'Ds and MA's by thesis at British and Australian Universities. I currently have four doctoral students:
- Michelle Johansen, 'The Life and Cultural Location of London Librarian Charles Goss (1864-1946).'
- Jane Summerley, 'A Cultural History of London's East End 1870-1914.'
- Karina Terzins, 'From Comrade to Consumer: the Role of Consumption and Popular Cultures in the Construction of Post-Soviet Latvian Identities.'
- Leona Weston, ' The Survival of Liberal Idealism: A Study of the Idea of "Organic Wholeness" and "Decline" in the work of L.H. Myers and his Early Twentieth Century Literary and Cultural Contexts.'
Academic and Editorial Responsibilities
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
- Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Centre for Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
- Commissioning and Advisory Panels, Economic and Social Research Council, Consumer Cultures research programme.
- Joint editor of book series Consumption and Space, University College of London Press.
- Editorial Advisory Board, Cultural and Social History
- Editorial Board, 20th Century British History
- Editorial board of Parallax.
- Editorial board of Consumer Culture.