CURRICULUM VITAE: Dr Josie McLellan Personal Information: Address: 28 Elstree Road, Bristol BS5 7DX. Email: josie.mclellan@bristol.ac.uk. Present Appointment: Senior Lecturer in Modern European History (since August 2007). Previous Appointments: Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Bristol (August 2001-July 2007). Academic Qualifications: 2002: D.Phil. in Modern History, Mansfield College, Oxford. Submitted June 2001, viva December 2001. D.Phil. thesis entitled Remembering Spain: the contested history of the International Brigades in the GDR. Published as Antifascism and Memory in East Germany: Remembering the International Brigades, 1945-1989 (Oxford University Press, 2004). 1998: M.St. in Historical Research, Mansfield College, Oxford. 1997: BA (Hons) in Contemporary History with German, University of Sussex: First Class Honours. Special Awards, Honours and Distinctions 2012 Love In The Time of Communism winner of the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History (2011). 2011 Winner of a University of Bristol Teaching and Learning Award. 2008 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. TEACHING Undergraduate units and Masters units taught at the University of Bristol in the past three years include: Behind The Wall: Living in East Germany 1968 and its afterlives German Bodies: Sex and the Body in Twentieth Century Germany Europe: A Fractal History Combat Motivation Researching History Approaches to History Research Methods Everyday Life Under Dictatorship Themes in Contemporary History Postgraduate advising 2011- Anna Kan (Rock music in the Leningrad). Joint supervision with Dr. Juliane Fürst. 2011-2012 Liiva Zolnerovica (Hippies in Latvia). Joint supervision with Dr. Juliane Fürst. 2011- Peter Littlemore (Men of Confidence in British POW camps). MPhil. 29.11.12
2011- Sabrina Fairchild (Beyond the City of Tea : Fuzhou in its Worlds, 1853-1941). Joint supervision with Prof. Robert Bickers. 2011-12 Aneta Jarzebska (Underground galleries in East Berlin and Warsaw). Joint supervision with Dr. Juliane Fürst. (Withdrawn for health reasons). 2010- Istvan Pal Adam ( The Role of Building Managers in the Hungarian Holocaust ). Joint supervision with Prof. Tim Cole. 2010- William Raybauld (Culture and Identity of the British East India Company Administrator. 1773-1833). Joint supervision with Dr. Kirsty Reid. 2005-6 Kate Nurse (thesis title: Feminism and Femininity: The Campaign for Equal Pay in 1950s Britain ). Joint supervision with Dr. Kirsty Reid. (Withdrawn for health reasons.) University TLHE programme From September 2011, I have been part of the Arts Faculty Team which contributes to the University s Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Programme. This involves leading courses for postgraduates and researchers. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Authored Books 2011 Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR (Cambridge University Press). 239 pp. 2004 Antifascism and Memory in East Germany: Remembering the International Brigades, 1945-1989 (Oxford University Press), 240 pp. Academic Journal Papers (refereed) 2012 Glad to be gay behind the wall: gay and lesbian activism in 1970s East Germany, History Workshop Journal, 74.1, 105-30. 2009 Visual Dangers and Delights: East German nude photography, Past and Present, 205, 143-174. 2007 State Socialist Bodies: East German nudism from ban to boom, Journal of Modern History, 79.1, 48-79. 2006 I wanted to be a little Lenin : Ideology and the German volunteers in the International Brigades, Journal of Contemporary History, 41.2, 287-304. 2004 The Politics of Communist Biography: Alfred Kantorowicz and the Spanish Civil War, German History, 22.4, 536-62. Contributions to edited collections 2011 Liebte der Osten anders? Sex and the body in German reunification in David Clarke and Ute Wolfel (eds.), Twenty Years After German Reunification (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 119-30. 2010 Even Under Socialism, We Don t Want To Do Without Love : Erotica in East Germany, in David Crowley and Susan Reid (eds.), Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Bloc (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2010), 219-37. Reprinted in Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement 7 (2011), East German Material Culture and the Power of Memory. http://ghidc.org/files/publications/bu_supp/supp007/049.pdf. Academic Journal Papers (not refereed) 2
2009 'Marianne Motz: "Vision"', Rundbrief Fotografie, 16, 3-4. Reviews of Single Academic Books 2011 Review of Patrick Major, Behind the Berlin Wall and Jan Palmowski, Inventing a Socialist Nation, English Historical Review, 126.2, 763-6. 2010 Review of Danuta Kneipp, Im Abseits. Berufliche Diskriminierung in der Honecker- DDR, German History, 28.3, 394-5. 2008 Review of Karl-Christian Fuehrer and Corey Ross, Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth Century Germany, German History, 26.4, 598-9. 2008 Review of Pamela E. Swett, S. Jonathan Wiesen, and Jonathan R. Zatlin, Selling modernity: advertising in twentieth-century Germany, Economic History Review, 61.3, 745-6. 2007 Review of J. Geller, Jews in Postwar Germany, Journal of Modern History, 79.1, 219 1. 2006 Review of D. Herzog, Sex After Fascism, Social History, 31.4, 495-7. 2006 Review of P. O Dochartaigh, Germany since 1945, European History Quarterly, 36.4, 640-1. 2006 Review of M. Fulbrook, The People s State, History in Focus, 10 (March). http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/focus/cold/reviews/mclellan.html. 2005 Review of M. Dennis, The Stasi: Myth and Reality, English Historical Review, 120.2, 565-6. 2004 Review of G. Notz, Frauen in der Mannschaft, English Historical Review, 119.4, 1103-4. 2004 Review of C. Ross, The East German Dictatorship, German History, 22.2, 44-6. 2004 Review of Die DDR in Deutschland, German History, 22.2, 43-4. 2002 Review of S. Anderson, A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, German History, 20.4, 546-7. 2000 Review of P. Quint, The Imperfect Union, European Review of History, 7.2, 305. 2000 Review of M. Sandle, A Short History of Soviet Socialism and K. Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies, European Review of History, 7.2, 307-8. Media contributions: 2006 Akt am Traktor, Berliner Zeitung, 4 October, p. 29. Reprinted in S. Lokatis and S. Barck (eds.), Zensurspiele: Heimliche Literaturgeschichten aus der DDR (Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2008). RESEARCH GRANTS (Unless otherwise stated, I was principal investigator.) September 2012: University Research Fellowship for The Second Sex since The Second Sex: Women in Postwar Europe February 2012: AHRC Connected Communities Grant (CI, with Bickers as PI) for Know Your Place. 25,000. July 2011: AHRC Research Grant (CI, with Juliane Fürst as PI) for Dropping Out of Socialism. 199,000. April 2007: Leverhulme Research Fellowship ( 16,987) for Love in the Time of Communism: East German sexualities June 2006: Institute for Advanced Studies ( 1,970), for Historical Visual Cultures Research Workshop June 2006: British Academy Small Grants Fund ( 6,237), for Love in the Time of Communism: Sexuality and Everyday Life in East Germany May 2006: University Annual Fund ( 10,000) for resource enhancement. We were awarded 3
10,000 to enable a one-off programme of purchase of books and journals to support the teaching and research of visual culture. March 2003: University Research Fellowship (not taken up), for The Politics of Sex in the German Democratic Republic April 2003: Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, replacement salary for six months, for The Politics of Sex in the German Democratic Republic June 2003: British Academy Small Grants Fund ( 4,200), for The Politics of Sex in the German Democratic Republic Recent invited seminar papers and international conference papers on my research include (not all invitations taken up due to family commitments): January 2013: Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany November 2012, Institute for Historical Research, London October 2012: Panel on The history of German sexuality since 1945, German Studies Association, Milwaukee, USA (roundtable sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington DC) Spring 2012: Trondheim, Norway January 2012: Wiener Library, London (public lecture) November 2011: St Hilda s College, Oxford Spring 2011: University of Sheffield November 2010: Socialist History Society, London (public lecture) April 2010: Manchester Metropolitan University March 2010: St. Andrews University November 2009: Southampton University October 2009: University of Oxford October 2009: Germans Things conference on material culture, Wende Museum/UCLA, Los Angeles January 2008: University of Oxford January 2008: University of Exeter December 2007: University of Hertfordshire Galleries March 2007: Final discussion panel, Germany 1930-1960, UCL October 2006: University of Cardiff October 2006: University of Nottingham January 2006: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. November 2005: University of Edinburgh June 2005: Conference on Privacy and Modernism, V&A, London. February 2005: Conference on Culture and Combat Motivation, Cambridge FUTURE PLANS Another article on Gay and lesbian spaces in East Berlin, 1968-1989, will be submitted in the course of 2012-13 (foreseeably to the American Historical Review). I am co-writing a chapter on Geographies of Everyday Life for a collaborative volume on the history of everyday life, which will be published by Berghahn in 2014. I have recently embarked on a major new research project on gender equality in post- 1945 Europe, funded in the first instance by a University Research Fellowship. With Ruth Glynn from Italian, I ran a workshop on postwar women s history in January 2013, with the aim of developing an AHRC Research Network application. Working with colleagues from Glasgow, Oxford, and Liverpool, this will set up an international network of scholars working on Women, Work and Value in Postwar Europe. I also plan to submit a major funding bid to the European Research Council in spring 2014. 4
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP IN THE DISCIPLINE 2012-: Member, Gender & History editorial collective. 2012: judge, German History Society/Royal Historical Society Essay Prize. 2010-present: co-editor, Contemporary European History Under my co-editorship, the journal has launched numerous new initiatives, including book fora, a move towards advance access, and partnerships with European journals. We have published three successful theme issues, and seen a marked improvement in both copy flow and quality. Our plans for the next few years include a conference to mark the 25 th anniversary of the journal, and regular article exchanges with non- English language journals. The first of these will be with the Spanish journal Cuadernos de Historia Contempranea, with whom we are planning a joint meeting and research workshop in Madrid in spring 2013. I am currently coordinating the journal s response to the government s Finch Report on Open Access, which involves liaison with our publishers and representatives from the leading historical associations. 2011: External assessor for the mock REF exercise of the School of Medicine and Health at Durham University (examining publications in the history of medicine). 2006-9: member of the committee of the German History Society. My responsibilities included running the annual Essay Prize. ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP IN THE UNIVERSITY 2013 Selected to take part in South-West Crucible leadership programme. 2012 Member, Mentoring Circle. 2011 Completion of the Leading Research Teams management course. 2011- Part of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Programme Team and Steering Committee. 2011- I am a member of the REAP review panel, and acted as a reader for the Department s mock REF exercise. 2011-12 Steering Committee, Past Matters festival of history. 2005-7 Member, Executive Board, Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA). 2006-8 Arts Faculty Representative, University Environmental Implementation Group. 2006-8 Member, Historical Studies Staff Student Consultative Committee. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE UNIVERISTY In December 2012, I took part in the very successful academic stand-up comedy night, Bristol Bright Club I regularly review for a range of history journals, including Social History, The English Historical Review, Central European History, and the Journal of Modern History. I have reviewed manuscripts and proposals for OUP, Berg publishers, Palgrave Macmillan, German History, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Cold War History, the Historical Journal and the Journal of Modern History. I have been invited to act as a Faculty Mentor for the German Historical Institute s Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in June 2013. In April 2010 I was invited to act as a external assessor at a postgraduate workshop at the European University Institute in Florence. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (since 2008). 5