Name
BLOOMFIELD, Jacob
Position and Affiliated Institution
Zukunftskolleg Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz
Degree
PhD in History
Education and Academic Employment
| Academic Employment: | |
| Jul 2020-present | Zukunftskolleg Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany |
| Nov 2019-present | Honorary Research Fellow, School of History, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK |
| 2020-2021 | Lecturer in Gender Studies, Bader International Study Centre, Queen’s University (Kingston), Herstmonceux, UK |
| 2019 | Tutor, Anglo Educational Services/University of California Berkeley, London, UK |
| 2019 | Co-Convenor and Instructor, Bader International Study Centre, Queen’s University, Herstmonceux, UK |
| 2019 | Associate Lecturer, School of History, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK |
| 2019-2021 | Tutor, Bishopsgate Institute, London, UK |
| 2014-2017 | Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
| Education: | |
| 2018 | PhD in History (The University of Manchester), ‘Male Cross-Dressing Performance in Britain, 1918-1970’, supervised by Professor Laura Doan and Professor Frank Mort; awarded A2 at Viva |
| 2013 | MSc in History (The University of Edinburgh) |
| 2012 | MA in History & Politics (The University of Edinburgh); 2:1 degree class |
Research Topic
Tutti Frutti: Little Richard, Sex, Gender, and Transgression in America and Europe.
Fields of Research Interests
Cultural History; Gender History; Queer History; British History; American History
Academic Publications
- Drag. A British History (University of California Press, 2023)
- Tutti Frutti: Little Richard, Sex, Gender, and Transgression in America and Europe (University of London Press/Institute of Historical Research/Royal Historical Society, under contract, to be submitted for peer review September 2023)
- ‘Splinters: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen on the Interwar Stage’, Twentieth Century British History 30:1 (2019)
- Soldiers in Skirts: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen, Sexuality and Censorship in Post-War Britain’, in Stephen Farrier and Mark Edward, eds., Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene, Volume 2 (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Affiliated Academic Organizations
2020-: Early Career Member of the Royal Historical Society, London, UK
2019-: Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History (CLGBTH)
2016-: International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)
2016-: Associate Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
Other Interests
Drag performance; cinema; theatre
HP（URL）
https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/community/fellow-homepages/jacob-bloomfield/
