Participant Info
- First Name
- Emily
- Last Name
- Rutherford
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY New York
- emr2213@columbia.edu
- Affiliation
- Columbia University
- Website URL
- http://emilymrutherford.com
- Keywords
- modern British history, intellectual history, cultural history, women/gender/sexuality
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of education and of gender and sexuality in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. I am also interested in the intellectual and cultural history of Britain and Europe more widely, from the early modern period to the present; and in the history of higher education around the world.
I am currently working on two book projects: the first, The Politics and Culture of Gender in British Universities, 1860–1935, about the interrelated inventions of a modern British gender order and a modern British higher education system; and the second, a new intellectual history of homosexuality in Britain, c. 1850–1967.
- Recent Publications
Academic Publications
“Arthur Sidgwick’s Greek Prose Composition: Gender, Affect, and Sociability in the Late-Victorian University,” Journal of British Studies 56, no. 1 (Jan 2017), 91-116
“Impossible Love and Victorian Values: J.A. Symonds and the Intellectual History of Homosexuality,” Journal of the History of Ideas 75, no. 4 (Oct 2014), 605-27
Recent Selected General-audience Publications
“What’s Missing in Naomi Wolf’s ‘Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love’,” Public Seminar, June 25, 2019
“‘Never in the Presence of Any Woman’: Male Homoeroticism and Elite Education,” History Workshop Online, January 21, 2019
“The 1970s Gay Sex Scandal That Enthralled Britons Is Back” [on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal and A Very English Scandal (BBC)], Public Seminar, June 26, 2018
“Dare to Speak its Name: Pederasty in the Classical Tropes of Call Me By Your Name,” Eidolon, February 2018
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @echomikeromeo
- Country Focus
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, British Isles, England, United Kingdom, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Gender, Higher Ed, Literary History, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Women, World War I