BA(Hons) PhD(Well)Professor in Gender Studies
Contact details
Room R6C22, 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 on sociological and historical approaches.
With Judith Collard I recently co-edited Queer Objects, an international collection that explores LGBT material culture. This book was published in late 2019 by Otago, Rutgers and Manchester University Presses. My new book project is an edition of James Courage's diaries. A wry observer of mid-twentieth century life in New Zealand and England, Courage was the author of A Way of Love, the first gay novel by a New Zealander. The affective qualities of landscapes, travels by ocean liner, life during the Blitz and psychiatric treatment are among his diaries' themes.
I am also researching the interconnections between male homosexuality, imprisonment and psychology in New Zealand during the twentieth century and I am writing a series of journal articles that explore the history, meaning and politics of same-sex marriage and its wider social context.
Further details of my research projects can be found at www.brickell.co.nz
Courses
GEND 102 Bodies, Sexualities and Selves
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., & Collard, J. (Eds.). (2019). Queer objects. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 416p.
Edited Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2017). Teenagers: The rise of youth culture in New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 384p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2008). Mates & lovers: A history of gay New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House, 430p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2020). Josie and Florence: A same-sex marriage at the turn of the twentieth century. New Zealand Journal of History, 54(1), 29-48.
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C. (2020). A short history of same-sex marriage in New Zealand. Sexualities, 23(8), 1417-1433. doi: 10.1177/1363460720902713
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C. (2017). Teenagers: The rise of youth culture in New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 384p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2013). Southern men: Gay lives in pictures. Dunedin, New Zealand: Genre Books, 227p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2012). Manly affections: The photographs of Robert Gant, 1885-1915. Dunedin, New Zealand: Genre Books, 207p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2008). Mates & lovers: A history of gay New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House, 430p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C., & Collard, J. (Eds.). (2019). Queer objects. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 416p.
Edited Book - Research
Brickell, C., & Collard, J. (2019). The queerness of objects. In C. Brickell & J. Collard (Eds.), Queer objects. (pp. 11-21). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2018). Historical research: Pulling together a history of New Zealand's teenagers. In M. Tolich & C. Davidson (Eds.), Social science research in New Zealand: An introduction. (pp. 259-268). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2018). Maritime masculinities. In F. Steel (Ed.), New Zealand and the sea: Historical perspectives. (pp. 216-229). Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams. doi: 10.7810/9780947518707
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2017). Theorising power online. In E. Martellozzo & E. A. Jane (Eds.), Cybercrime and its victims. (pp. 43-59). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2015). 'Badness personified': Nola Pratt's photograph album. In A. Cooper, L. Paterson & A. Wanhalla (Eds.), The lives of colonial objects. (pp. 262-267). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2015). Sex, symbolic interactionism, and social constructionism. In T. S. Weinberg & S. Newmahr (Eds.), Selves, symbols, and sexualities: An interactionist anthology. (pp. 5-16). Los Angeles, CA: SAGE.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2013). Men together: Intimacy and eroticism in pre-World War I New Zealand. In G. Willett & Y. Smaal (Eds.), Intimacy, violence and activism: Gay and lesbian perspectives on Australasian history and society. (pp. 1-24). Melbourne, Australia: Monash University.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2012). Moral panic or critical mass? The queer contradictions of 1950s New Zealand. In H. Bauer & M. Cook (Eds.), Queer 1950s: Rethinking sexuality in the postwar years. (pp. 94-114). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2011). At the borders of colonial masculinity: Robert Gant's photographs of men together. In A. Wanhalla & E. Wolf (Eds.), Early New Zealand photography: Images and essays. (pp. 66-71). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2010). Nouvelle-Zélande: Jeunesse et homosexualité dans l'immèdiat après-guerre. In V. Blanchard, R. Revenin & J.-J. Yvorel (Eds.), Les jeunes et la sexualité: Initiations, interdits, identités (XXIe-XXIe siècle). (pp. 352-362). Paris: Autrement.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2009). Sexuality, morality and society. In G. Byrnes (Ed.), The new Oxford history of New Zealand. (pp. 465-486). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2005). The emergence of a gay identity. In A. Kirkman & P. Maloney (Eds.), Sexuality down under: Social and historical perspectives. (pp. 63-78). Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2005). The transformation of heterosexism and its paradoxes. In C. Ingraham (Ed.), Thinking straight: The power, the promise, and the paradox of heterosexuality. (1 ed.) (pp. 85-107). New York: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2020). A short history of same-sex marriage in New Zealand. Sexualities, 23(8), 1417-1433. doi: 10.1177/1363460720902713
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C. (2020). Josie and Florence: A same-sex marriage at the turn of the twentieth century. New Zealand Journal of History, 54(1), 29-48.
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C. (2019). Transport cultures and young people’s histories in New Zealand, 1880–1950. Journal of Historical Geography, 63, 2-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2018.08.002
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C., & Gilmour, F. (2019). The dialectics of motherhood in 1950s New Zealand. Journal of Family History, 44(4), 413-430. doi: 10.1177/0363199019855107
Journal - Research Article
Bennett, J. E., & Brickell, C. (2018). Surveilling the mind and body: Medicalising and de-medicalising homosexuality in 1970s New Zealand. Medical History, 62(2), 199-216. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2018.4
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C. (2018). Unpublished post-war writing and emergent gay cultures. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 26, 18-33. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS26.4839
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C., Gorman-Murray, A., & de Jong, A. (2018). Queer trans-Tasman mobility, then and now. Australian Geographer, 49(1), 167-184. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2017.1345294
Journal - Research Article