Dominic Janes is Lecturer in History of Art and Religion. He has MAs from Oxford University and from Birkbeck and a PhD from Cambridge. In addition to a spell as a lecturer at Lancaster University, he has been a research fellow at London and Cambridge universities. He has lived in several countries including Malawi, Iraq, Indonesia and the United States.
Research interests
•Interactions of British textual, visual and material culture from the eighteenth century.
•Cultural history, history of sexuality, comparative religion and modern reception of classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Dominic Janes’ academic interests focus on the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries and his research derives from a combination of history, visual and material culture and religious studies that is theoretically informed by cultural anthropology. He makes use of textual, material and visual sources in his exploration of such issues as the gothic, the body, commodification, sexuality and the reception of classical and medieval antiquity. His core focus is on Britain but he also has side interests in comparative study of these issues as applicable in the British Empire, Europe and the United States. He has a background in the study of the early Church and this has meant that he has wide teaching experience at both BA and MA levels.
He has worked on three main research projects:
•2007: Comparative Religion and the Construction of Sexuality in Modern Britain
•2001-2007: The Reception of the Pre-Reformation Church in Victorian England
•1992-2001: Display and Christianisation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
He is currently researching and writing Queer Martyrdom from Oscar Wilde to Derek Jarman (a study of the interactions of religious and homosexual ethics and aesthetics).
Publications
Books
•[in progress] Queer Martyrdom from Oscar Wilde to Derek Jarman
•Victorian Reformation: the Fight over Idolatry in the Church of England, 1840-1860. History, Culture and Religion Series, American Academy of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009: HB ISBN 0195378512). Grant received for cost of illustrations, Research Fund, Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College, London.
•Romans and Christians. (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2002: PB ISBN 0752419544). Grant received for cost of illustrations, Scouloudi Fund, London University.
•God and Gold in Late Antiquity. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: HB ISBN 0521594030). Electronic edition (2001). Grant received for cost of illustrations, Pembroke College and History Faculty, Cambridge University.
Edited books
•[in progess] Terrorism and Martyrdom from Antiquity to Modernity
•[accepted] with Gary Waller, Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity. (New York: Ashgate, c. 2010), and author of article ‘Queer Walsingham’.
•Shopping for Jesus: Faith in Marketing in the USA. (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing: 2008) [PB ISBN 978-0-9800814-3-5].
•Back to the Future of the Body. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007) [HB ISBN 1847181627].
Selected articles
•[accepted] ‘Dickens and the Catholic corpse’, in Michael Hollington (ed.) Dickens and Italy: ‘Little Dorit’ and ‘Pictures from Italy’. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, c. 2010).
•[accepted] ‘Thinking with the womb in early Victorian England: the life and work of Emma Martin’, in Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge (eds.) The Female Body in Professional Encounter. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c. 2010).
•[accepted] ‘Seeing and tasting the divine: Simeon Solomon’s homoerotic sacrament’, in Patrizia di Bello and Gabriel Koureas (eds) History of Art and the Senses, 1830 to the Present (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 35-50.
•‘“Eternal master”: masochism and the sublime at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington D.C.’, Theology and Sexuality 15(2) (2009), pp. 161-75 [Online ISSN 1745-5170 - Print ISSN 1355-8358].
•‘The rites of man: the British Museum and the sexual imagination in Victorian Britain’, Journal of the History of Collections (2008), 20(1): 101-112 [Online ISSN 1477-8564 - Print ISSN 0954-6650].
•‘The shadow of the Passion: Protestants and the suffering Christ in nineteenth-century British art and text’, Ikon (2008) 1: 237-44 [Print ISSN1846-8551].
•‘Beyond the tourist gaze? Cultural learning on an American “semester abroad” programme in London’, Journal of Research in International Education (2008) 7(1): 21-35 [Online ISSN: 1741-2943 - Print ISSN: 1475-2409].
•‘Spiritual cleaning, priests and prostitutes’, in eds. Rosie Cox and Ben Campkin, Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination (London: IB Tauris, 2007) [HB ISBN 9781845116729] pp.113-22.
•‘Sex and text: the afterlife of medieval penance in Britain and Ireland’ in April Harper and Caroline Proctor (eds) Medieval Sexuality: a Casebook. (New York: Routledge, 2007) [HB ISBN 0415978319] pp.32-44.
•‘Treasures, death and display from Rome to the Middle Ages’ in E. Tyler and J. Grenville (eds) Treasure in the Medieval West. York Medieval Seminar Series (Brewer, Woodbridge, 2000) [HB ISBN 0952973480] pp.1-10.
•‘The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early Middle Ages’, in Y. Hen and M. Innes (eds) The Uses of the Past in Early Medieval Europe. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) [HB and PB, ISBN 0521630010] pp.102-13.
•‘Wood, masonry and the construction of identity: comparing southern Britain and Gaul, 4th to 7th centuries’, in G. Fincham, G. Harrison, R. Rodgers Holland and L. Revell (eds) TRAC 99: Proceedings of Ninth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Durham (Oxford: Oxbow, 2000) [PB, ISBN 1842170074] pp. 83-9.
•‘Treasure bequest: death and gift in the early Middle Ages’ in J. Hill and M. Swan (eds) The Community, the Family and the Saint: Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe, International Medieval Research 4 (Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 1998) [ISBN PB 2503506682] pp. 363-77.
•‘The golden clasp of the late Roman state’, Early Medieval Europe (1996) 5: 127-53 [Online ISSN: 1468-0254 - Print ISSN: 0963-9462].
