Professor Joanna Bourke FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2014
- Honours
- OBE
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
Summary
Joanna Bourke is Professor Emerita of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and Professor Emerita at Gresham College. She is the prize-winning author of 15 books and over 120 academic articles. She writes on sexual violence, modern warfare, psychology and psychiatry, the emotions, 'evil', Higher Education, and what it means to be human.
She is currently writing a history of female cultures of drinking. Among others, she is the author of 'An Intimate History of Killing' (1999, which won the Wolfson Prize and the Fraenkel Prize), 'Fear' (2005), 'Rape' (2007), 'What it Means To Be Human' (2011), 'The Story of Pain' (2014), 'Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play are Invading our Lives' (2014), and 'Loving Animals' (2019).
In 2022, Reaktion Books published 'Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence' (also published by Chicago University Press and as an audiobook) and OUP published 'Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Education for Working People'. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Korean, and Greek. She is a frequent contributor to TV and radio shows, and a regular correspondent for newspapers.
Current post
Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London
Past appointments
Birkbeck College University of London Professor of History
1970 -
Publications
Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People
Published in 2022 by Oxford University Press
Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
Published in 2022 by Reaktion Books and Chicago University Press
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
Published in 2020 by Reaktion Books
War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict
Edited by Joanna Bourke - Published in 2017 by Reaktion Books
Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Are Invading Our Lives
Published in 2014 by Virago and Counterpoint
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
Published in 2014 by Oxford University Press
What It Means To Be Human, Historical Reflections 1791 to the Present
Published in 2011 by Virago and Counterpoint
Rape: A History from 1860s to the Present
Published in 2007 by Virago and Shoemaker and Hoard
Fear: A Cultural History
Published in 2005 by Virago and Shoemaker and Hoard
The Second World War: A People’s History
Published in 2001 by Oxford University Press
The Penguin Atlas of British and Irish History. From Earliest Times to the Present Day
Edited by Barry Cunliffe, Robert Bartlett, John Morrill, Asa Briggs, and Joanna Bourke - Published in 2001 by Penguin
The Misfit Soldier
Edward Casey [pseud. John William Roworth]introduction by Joanna Bourke - Published in 1999 by Cork University Press
An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare
Published in 1999 by Granta and Basic
Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain, and the Great War
Published in 1996 by Reaktion Press, and University of Chicago Press
Working-Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class and Ethnicity
Published in 1994 by Routledge
Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change and Housework in Ireland, 1890-1914
Published in 1993 by Clarendon Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr FBA
African and African American literary criticism; African American intellectual and cultural history; genetics and genealogy; producing documentary films about the African Diaspora and genetics and genealogy
