Dominic Janes
Professor Dominic Janes (Pembroke, 1990) is Professor of Modern History at Keele University, a Professorial Fellow at the University for the Creative Arts, and a specialist in LGBT+ History and Culture.
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Dominic currently editing the Oxford Handbook of LGBT+ History and writing a history of queer life at Oxbridge. He teaches and gives media engagements on a wide variety of topics ranging from closeted lives, to LGBT+ arts and queer dandyism.
Dominic’s books include: British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022); Freak to Chic: ‘Gay’ Men in and out of Fashion after Oscar Wilde (Bloomsbury Visual, 2021); Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016); Picturing the Closet: Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015); and Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).