Dominic Janes

Dominic Janes is Professor of Modern History at Keele University and a Professorial Fellow in research at the University for the Creative Arts. In addition to a spell as a lecturer at Lancaster University, he has been a research fellow at London and Cambridge universities. He then worked as a director of studies for international students before moving to Birkbeck, University of London and then to Keele. He is a cultural historian who studies texts and visual images relating to Britain in its local and international contexts since the eighteenth century. Within this sphere he focuses on the histories of gender, sexuality and religion. He has published with a range of publishers including Cambridge, Chicago and Oxford University presses. His latest book is Freak to Chic: ‘Gay’ Men in and Out of Fashion after Oscar Wilde (Bloomsbury, 2021). He has been the recipient of a number of research awards including fellowships from the AHRC and the British Academy and been a visiting research professor at the University of the Arts London.