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BA(Hons) PhD(Well)Chris Brickell profile image

Professor in Gender Studies

Contact details

Room 6C22, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 479 8184
Email chris.brickell@otago.ac.nz

Much of my research focuses on the connections between sexuality, gender and identity, and draws from sociological, historical and geographical approaches.

I have recently published editions of the diaries of writers James Courage and Robert Lord. I am currently writing on the relationships between queerness, performativity, affect, space and time. I am also researching the history of New Plymouth Prison between 1917 and 1952, when the jail mostly housed men arrested for homosexual offences. This project explores the connections between popular and professional ideas about sexuality, prisoners’ experiences and self-understandings, and modes of carceral control.

Further details of my research projects, and my blog, can be found at www.brickell.co.nz

Courses

GEND 102 Bodies, Sexualities and Society
GEND 206 / 306 Gender, Work and Consumer Culture
GEND 207 / 307 Masculinities
GEND 401 Debates in Gender and Sexuality

Postgraduate supervision

  • Sexuality
  • Gay studies
  • Masculinity
  • Histories of adolescence
  • Affect, identities and space
  • Visual sociology and visual history

Publications

Brickell, C. (2026, March). Rainbow Archive Project Launch. Hosted by Pride Taranaki Charitable Trust, Puke Ariki Library and Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand. [Public Lecture]. Other Research Output

Procter, L., & Brickell, C. (2026). Making monsters out of pets: Non-binary identities in virtual spaces. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2026.2627412 Journal - Research Article

Brickell, C. (2025). Dr Sydney Allen, homosexuality, and New Plymouth Prison, 1928-1957. Health & History, 27(2), 69-89. doi: 10.1353/hah.2025.a987644 Journal - Research Article

Brickell, C. (2025). [Review of the book Coming out Republican]. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 34(3), 586-587. doi: 10.1353/sex.00047 Journal - Research Other

Brickell, C. (2025). Performativity, queer objects and radical creativity. Italian Sociological Review, 15(3), 695-714. doi: 10.13136/isr.v15i3.903 Journal - Research Article

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