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Blackford, Cathy

Contact details

Position: Senior Lecturer

Location: Docklands Campus, EB.2.39

Telephone: 0208 223 2764

Email: c.m.a.blackford@uel.ac.uk

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School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI)
University of East London
Docklands Campus
University Way
London E16 2RD

Brief biography

  • BA Modern History and Political Theory and Institutions (University of Sheffield)
  • MA Twentieth Century Historical Studies (University of Westminister)
  • PhD: 'Ideas, Structures and Practices of Feminism, 1939-64' (University of East London)
  • Certificate of Post Compulsory Education (University of Greenwich)

I am currently History Programme Leader, with responsibility for co-ordinating the undergraduate History degree. 

My teaching is divided between the History and English Literature undergraduate programmes.

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Activities and responsibilities

History Programme

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Areas of Interest/Summary of Expertise

My research and teaching interests cover a wide range of areas in history and literature, with a particular emphasis on issues of gender, 'race' and sexuality in British imperial history, fin de siecle English literature, and socio-political and cultural History in post Second World War Britain.

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Teaching: Programmes

  • History
  • English Literature

 

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Teaching: Modules

  • CC140 Patterns of Imperial History
  • CC1403 Making the Modern Self
  • CC1301 Forms and Texts
  • CC1302 Ways of Reading
  • CC2405 Cultural Change/Cultural Anxiety
  • CC2300 Culture, Knowledge, Power
  • CC2304 19th Century English LIterature
  • CC2307 Literatures of Slavery
  • CC3000 Dissertation Workshop

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Current research and publications

I am currently involved in research for module development on European travel writing from the early modern period.

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Other scholarly activities

Raphael Samuel History Centre

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