Henry Winkler Associate Professor

335B McMicken Hall
513-556-2062
martin.francis@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Martin Francis received a BA from the University of Manchester and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He held several positions in the United Kingdom, most notably at Royal Holloway, University of London, before coming to Cincinnati in 2003. His interests are in the histories of twentieth-century British politics, gender (especially masculinity) in modern Europe and the United States, and British cinema between the 1930s and 1960s. He is currently completing a book for Oxford University Press on the place of the Royal Air Force flyer in British culture between 1939 and 1945. His non-academic interests include travel and fashion.

Courses Taught

Belonging: Identities in Europe since the Eighteenth Century (graduate).

The Second World War in Britain, France and the USA (graduate).

Masculinities in Britain and the United States since 1850 .

Gender and Sexuality in Britain since 1850 .

Twentieth-Century Europe.

Twentieth-Century Britain.