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Gareth Roddy is a Lecturer in Modern British and Irish History in the Department of Humanities. He joined the Department as a Lecturer in September 2023, following on from his Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2020-23. He previously taught at the University of Sheffield, where he completed his doctoral thesis in 2019. Gareth is a historian of modern Britain and Ireland, and is particularly interested in landscapes and identity, borders, peripheries, and the history of travel and tourism.
Education/Academic qualification
History, PhD, Into the West: The Literature of Travel in the Western Peripheries of the British-Irish Isles, c.1880-c.1940. , University of Sheffield
2015 → 2019
Award Date: 30 Apr 2020
History, MRes, 'Westward on the High-Hilled Plains': the literature of Shropshire and the early twentieth century imagination, 1896–c.1939
2014 → 2015
Award Date: 1 Sept 2015
History, BA (Hons), The Music of George Butterworth and the Reception of the English Pastoral, University of Oxford
2010 → 2013
Award Date: 1 Jun 2013
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Seeing like a quarryman: an unfamiliar ‘archive of the feet’ along Hadrian’s Wall
Roddy, G., 14 Nov 2023, 8 p. In All Our Footsteps.Research output: Other contribution
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Seeing like a Quarryman: Landscape, Quarrying, and Competing Visions of Rural England along Hadrian's Wall, 1930-1960
Roddy, G., 8 Jun 2023, New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain. Ross, L. M., Navickas, K., Anderson, B. & Kelly, M. (eds.). 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), p. 61-91 31 p. (Proceedings of the British Academy; vol. 256).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Mist in “the West”: literatures of travel and landscape in the western British-Irish Isles, c.1880 1940
Roddy, G., 2019, Literary Tourism and the British Isles: History, Imagination, and the Politics of Place. Lexington Books, p. 37-67Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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"Westward on the high-hilled plains": The literature of Shropshire and the early-twentieth century imagination, 1896-c.1939
Roddy, G., 2 Jan 2019, In: Contemporary British History. 33, 1, p. 28-51Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kevin J. James, Tourism, Land, and Landscape in Ireland: The Commodification of Culture (New York, 2014)
Roddy, G., 2018, In: Studies in Travel Writing. 22, 2, p. 230-232Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Prizes
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Phantom Islands and Mythical Lands in Scotland and Ireland
Gareth Roddy (Speaker)
19 Sept 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Borders and Crossings: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing
Gareth Roddy (Participant)
5 Jul 2023 → 7 Jul 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
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Encounters At Sea: Interdisciplinary Conference
Gareth Roddy (Participant)
31 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
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Conflict, compromise and the quarrying debates along Hadrian’s Wall, 1930-60
Gareth Roddy (Speaker)
16 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Quarrying in the Hadrian’s Wall Setting
Gareth Roddy (Speaker)
26 Jan 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation