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

How did soldiers and sailors get tangled up in the policing of homosexuality during the middle 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.

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