Professor Chris Brickell
BA(Hons) PhD(Well)
Much of my research focuses on the connections between sexuality, gender and identity, drawing on sociological and historical approaches. I am continuing to develop my interests in histories of same-sex sexuality and intimacy, and in various aspects of cultural change in postwar New Zealand – especially in terms of gender relations.
Latest Blog Entries
Dec 17, 2024
How did soldiers and sailors get tangled up in the policing of homosexuality during the middle of the twentieth century?
Jul 4, 2024
James Courage's previously unpublished memoir offers up the story of his childhood, his migration to England, and his years at Oxford University.
Jun 2, 2024
Who were the men sent to New Plymouth's special prison for homosexual offenders during the first half of the twentieth century?
Latest Books
Robert Lord, a pioneering gay playwright with a witty and sardonic style, lived in both New Zealand and New York during the 1970s and 1980s. These diaries tell of his complex expatriate life, his friends, and his work.
James Courage, author of A Way of Love, is one of New Zealand's most overlooked gay writers but he was one of our best.
Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, as well as the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another.