Dr David Kerr BA, DPhil.
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Biography:
BA and DPhil, Pembroke College, Oxford. British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1996-1999 UCD 1999 - Research interests include: revolutions and revolutionary movements in modern Europe, Fascism and Italian society in the 1930s, the history of tourism in Italy, history of film. I am currently writing three books on the history of children and childhood in the twentieth century - two monographs on children in Fascist Italy and a general study of childhood in Western Europe 1900-1960 (Routledge, 2013) |
Research Interests
| Political, social and cultural history of France 1789-1945; history of Paris, nineteenth-century popular theatre, graphic art and political caricature, the work of Charles Meryon. Research Projects |
Books
| David Kerr; (2000) Caricature and French Political Culture 1830-1848. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| David Kerr; (2003) 'La Revolution Introuvable, Raymond Aron, May 1968 and Symbolic Violence in the French Revolutionary Tradition' In: H.B.Clarke, J.Devlin, eds.(Dublin) (eds). European Encounters. Essays in memory of Albert Lovett. [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 1996. Title: British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow 1996-1999 |
| Year: 2004. Title: Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellow 2004-2005 |
Associations
| Association: Istituto Internazionale degli Studi Liguri, Function/Role: |
Conference Contributions
| Kerr, D; (2006) Death on the Barricades: the Exploitation of Corpses in Nineteenth Century Historiography and Iconography. [Oral Presentation], The Politics of Dead Bodies, School of History & Archives, UCD , 10-MAR-06 - 10-MAR-06. |
| Kerr, D; (2006) Satire in Popular French Theatre. [Oral Presentation], One-day Conference on Media History, School of History, UCD , 24-FEB-06 - 24-FEB-06. |
Languages
| English: |
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Teaching Interests
| 19th-century Paris: Politics and Culture; Italy: Politics, Society, Culture 1900-75; Inter-war Europe: a social and cultural history (with Judith Devlin); Orwell's Twentieth Century; the Italian Renaissance; Cinema and Society in Twentieth-Century Europe |
Recent Postgraduates
| Modern and contemporary European cultural history. My current and recently completed Phd students are: Dr.Helen Graham |