Dr Jill Kirby
| Post: | Associate Professor in History (History) |
| Location: | ARTS A A166 |
| Email: | J.Kirby@sussex.ac.uk |
Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8546 |
| UK: | 01273 678546 |
| International: | +44 1273 678546 |
Biography
Dr Jill Kirby completed her PhD at Sussex University in 2014 and is currently a Lecturer in the School of History, Art History and Philosophy at Sussex and convenes the Foundation Year Making History course. She specialises in twentieth-century British history and is particularly interested in everyday life, emotion and stress.
Her book, Feeling the strain: a cultural history of stress in 20th century Britain, is published by MUP in 2019. She is currently working on a project historicising student stress and carrying out pedagogical research on student anxiety in the classroom.
Role
Lecturer and Convenor of Making History module for the Humanities stream of the Foundation Year.
Associate Fellow in the Centre for War and Society.
Jill has taught on the following modules at Sussex and Chichester Universities and Queen's University (Canada) Bader International Study Centre in Herstmonceux Castle:
FY:
- Making History
Y1:
- Society and Politics in Modern Britain
- Social History of Britain in the 20th Century
- Introductory Humanities Interdisciplinary Studies
Y2:
- Time and Place: 1984 Thatcher’s Britain
Y3:
- Britain and the Second World War
- Century of the Gene
- Imagining British Identities: Interdisciplinary British Studies