Biography

Dominic Janes has MAs from Oxford University in History and from Birkbeck in Education and a PhD from Cambridge. In addition to a spell as a lecturer at Lancaster University, he has been a research fellow at London and Cambridge universities. He then worked as a director of studies for international students before moving to Birkbeck, University of London and then to Keele. He has lived in several countries including Malawi, Iraq, Indonesia and the United States.

Research and scholarship

Dominic Janes is a cultural historian who studies texts and visual images relating to Britain in its local and international contexts since the eighteenth century. Within this sphere he focuses on the histories of gender, sexuality and religion. He has published with a range of publishers including Cambridge, Chicago and Oxford University presses. His latest books are 'Freak to Chic: "Gay" Men in and Out of Fashion after Oscar Wilde' (Bloomsbury, 2021) and 'British Dandies' (Bodleian Publishing, 2022). He has been the recipient of a number of research awards including fellowships from the AHRC and the British Academy and been a visiting research professor at the University of the Arts London and the University for the Creative Arts.

Teaching

Dominic Janes teaches, or co-teaches, a range of modules including: 

  • HIS-10025 Medieval Europe
  • HIS-10039 Defining Moments in History
  • HIS-20071 Saints and Society in Medieval Europe
  • HIS-30103 History Dissertation
  • HIS-30127 Gender and Sexuality in Georgian Britain
  • HIS-30126 Gender and Sexuality in Victorian Britain
  • HIS-40002 Approaches to Historical Research (MA)

 

Selected Publications

  • Janes D. 2023. Paul R. Deslandes. The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 432. $45.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies, 557-558, vol. 62(2). doi>
  • Janes D. ‘Queer nostalgia, youth and conformism in the postwar London diaries of George Lucas’. History Workshop Journal. full text>
  • Janes D. 2022. ‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’. In Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces Across the UK. Cook M, Oram A, Bengry J (Eds.). (10 vols.). Bloomsbury Publishing. doi> link>
  • Janes D. 2022. Strange gods: love and idolatry in the Victorian Novel. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: an interdisciplinary journal, 1-2. doi> link>
  • Janes D. 2022. The Rise of Victorian Caricature by Ian Haywood (review). Victorian Studies, 131-132, vol. 64(1). link> link>

Full Publications Listshow

Books

  • James D. 2022. British Dandies Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation. (6 vols.). Bodleian Library Publishing. link>
  • Janes D. 2021. Freak to Chic "Gay" Men in and Out of Fashion After Oscar Wilde. (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. link>
  • Janes D. 2016. Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900. University of Chicago Press.
  • Janes D. 2015. Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman. University of Chicago Press.
  • Janes D. 2015. Picturing the Closet Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain. Oxford University Press, USA.
  • Janes D and Houen A. 2014. Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford University Press.
  • Janes D. 2013. Back to the Future of the Body. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Janes D and Waller GF. 2010. Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
  • College UOLDJLIAHB. 2009. Victorian Reformation : The Fight Over Idolatry in the Church of England, 1840-1860 The Fight Over Idolatry in the Church of England, 1840-1860. Oxford University Press, USA.
  • Janes D. 2008. Shopping for Jesus Faith in Marketing in the USA. New Academia Pub Llc.
  • Janes D. 1998. God and Gold in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles

  • Janes D. 2023. Paul R. Deslandes. The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 432. $45.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies, 557-558, vol. 62(2). doi>
  • Janes D. ‘Queer nostalgia, youth and conformism in the postwar London diaries of George Lucas’. History Workshop Journal. full text>
  • Janes D. 2022. Strange gods: love and idolatry in the Victorian Novel. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: an interdisciplinary journal, 1-2. doi> link>
  • Janes D. 2022. The Rise of Victorian Caricature by Ian Haywood (review). Victorian Studies, 131-132, vol. 64(1). link> link>
  • Janes D. 2022. The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality, and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY, 695-723, vol. 55(3). link> doi> full text>
  • Janes D. 2021. The ‘Curious Effects’ of Acting: Homosexuality, Theatre and Female Impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900–39. Twentieth Century British History. doi> link> full text>
  • Janes D. 2021. ‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past. Journal of European Popular Culture, 23-44, vol. 12(1). doi> link> full text>
  • Janes D. Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine. Visual Culture in Britain, 275-295, vol. 21(3). doi> link> full text>
  • Janes D. 2020. ‘Religion, cross-dressing and sexual desire in the art of Simeon Solomon’, Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society. PRS Review, vol. 28(3). link> link> full text>
  • Janes D. 2019. Making Oscar Wilde. JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES, 658-659, vol. 58(3). link> doi>
  • Janes D. 2019. Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London. American Historical Review, 744-745, vol. 124(2). link> doi> link>
  • Janes DTS. 2018. Review of exhibitions British Library, “Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty” (2017) British Museum, “Desire, Love, Identity: Exploring LGBTQ Histories” (2017) Tate Britain, “Queer British Art, 1861-1967” (2017). QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 103-111, vol. 5(1). doi> link> full text>
  • Janes DTS. Early Twentieth-Century Vogue, George Wolfe Plank and the ‘Freaks of Mayfair’. Visual Culture in Britain. full text>
  • Janes DTS. The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain. Material Religion: the journal of objects, art and belief. doi> full text>
  • Janes D. 2015. Cecil Beaton, Richard Hamilton and the queer, Transatlantic origins of Pop Art. Visual Culture and Gender. doi> full text>
  • Janes D. 2015. ‘The scene of the crime: police photographs, visual culture and sexuality’. Legal Information Management, 15-18, vol. 15(1). doi>
  • Janes D. ‘The Confessional Unmasked: religious merchandise and obscenity in Victorian England’. Victorian Literature and Culture. doi>
  • Janes D. 2014. ‘Gothic visions of classical architecture in Hablot Knight Browne’s “dark” illustrations for the novels of Charles Dickens’. Gothic Studies, 33-51, vol. 16(2). doi>
  • Janes D. ‘When “perverts” were religious: the Protestant sexualisation of asceticism in nineteenth-century Britain, India and Ireland’. Cultural and Social History. doi>
  • Janes D. 2014. ‘Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes’. Literature and History. doi>
  • Janes D. ‘Oscar Wilde, sodomy and mental illness in late Victorian England’. , Journal of the History of Sexuality. doi>
  • Janes D. ‘The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion’. Victorian Periodicals Review. doi>
  • Janes D. ‘The gothic arousal of architecture in Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop and its illustrations’. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. doi>

Chapters

  • Janes D. 2022. ‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’. In Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces Across the UK. Cook M, Oram A, Bengry J (Eds.). (10 vols.). Bloomsbury Publishing. doi> link>
  • Janes D. 2015. Early Victorian moral anxiety and the queer legacy of the eighteenth-century gothic revival. In Material Religion in Modern Britain: The Spirit of Things. Palgrave Macmillan. full text>
  • Janes D. 2014. John Foxe and British attitudes to martyrdom after the French Revolution. In Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford University Press.
  • Janes D. ‘Male homoerotic relations in history’. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities Vol 1; General Overviews.

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