New Directions in First World War Studies

Dr. Louise Earnshaw is a cultural and gender historian of the First World War and modern Austria, specialising in histories of violence and emotion. They recently completed their PhD at the University of Leeds, and are now a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, where they are developing a new project on the politicisation of emotions among veterans in interwar Austria. They have published work on cultures of vulnerability and care and the emotional legacies of captivity and homecoming. Alongside their research, they work in Teaching and Learning at the University of Manchester Library.

Dr Julia Ribeiro S C Thomaz is part of the International Society for First World War Studies, more information to follow. 

Dr Alexia Moncrieff is a historian of medicine and the body at war with a focus on Australia and the British Empire in the First World War. Her first book (CUP, 2020) examined the work of the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) in the First World War and she has also investigated the post-war lives of disabled British ex-servicemen through their war pension files. She is currently writing a biography of Dr Jack Bean, an Officer of the AAMC and General Secretary of the Theosophical Society of Australia (1919-1924).

This session will bring together researchers working in the interdisciplinary field of First World War Studies to discuss the state of the field and emerging areas of interest. Conducted in partnership with the International Society of First World War Studies, it aims to open up discussion of methods, approaches, sources and their implications for the field.