Dr Richard Scully
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Qualifications
PhD, Monash University; BA(Hons 1st Class), Monash University
Contact
| Email: | rscully@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) G.41 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2156 (or +61 2 6773 2156 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3520 |
Areas of Teaching
• Modern European History, 1789-2011
• Germany, c.1860-1945
• World Wars: 1914-1918, 1939-1945
• Cultural History (visual turn)
• Historiography
Research interests
- British interactions with, and images of, Germany and other European nations.
- Global history, and historical uses, of political cartoons.
- Nineteenth and Twentieth-century British and European history (social, imperial, economic, military, political, gender and cultural).
Professional Associations
- EIRIS – Equipe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l’Image Satirique (l’Equipe HCTI, de l’Université de Bretagne Occidentale).
- Australian Cartoonists’ Association (Strawberry Hills, New South Wales, 2012)
- The Cartoon Museum (35 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HH)
Major Competitive Grants
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award – ‘The Cartoon Empire: The Anglo-American Tradition of Political Satire and Comic Art, 1720-2020’ (2013-2015 inclusive)
Publications
Books & Monographs
Richard Scully, British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism, & Ambivalence, 1860-1914, London: Palgrave Macmillan. Reviewed at: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1380
Richard Scully and Marian Quartly (eds), Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence, Clayton: Monash University ePress, 2009 - reissued, 2011: http://www.epress.monash.edu/dl/about.html.
Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters
‘The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone and Disraeli Through William Empson’s Looking Glass’, International Journal of Comic Art (forthcoming - Volume 15, No.1, Spring 2013).
'Australia / Australie / Australien', Ridiculosa, Special Issue - l'histoire de la presse satirique de pays etrangers (forthcoming 2013).
'Doctor Who and the Racial State: Fighting National Socialism across Time and Space', in Lindy A. Orthia (ed.), Doctor Who and Race, Bristol: Intellect (forthcoming - 2013).
‘The Development and Teaching of Sports Studies: “The University of New England [UNE] Experience - it stays with you for life”’, Sporting Traditions, 20: 1 (with Claire Parker; forthcoming – 2013).
‘Constructing the Colossus: the Origins of Linley Sambourne’s Greatest Punch Cartoon’, International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 14, No.2, Fall 2012, pp.120-142.
‘Mr Punch versus the Kaiser, 1892-1898: Flashpoints of a Complex Relationship – Part II: Photographing "Wilful Wilhelm"', International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 14, No.2, Fall 2012, pp.460-463.
'Hindenburg: The Cartoon Titan of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1934’, German Studies Review, Volume 35, No.3, 2012, pp.541-565.
‘Mr Punch versus the Kaiser, 1892-1898: Flashpoints of a Complex Relationship’, International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 13, No.2, Fall 2011, pp.553-578.
'The Epitheatrical Cartoonist: Matthew Somerville Morgan and the World of Theatre, Art and Journalism in Victorian London’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 16, No.3, December 2011, pp.363-384.
‘The Cartoon Emperor: The Impact of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte on European Comic Art, 1848-1870’, European Comic Art, Volume 4, No.2, 2011, pp.147-180.
'Sex, Art and the Victorian Cartoonist: Matthew Somerville Morgan in Victorian Britain and America', International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 13, No.1, Spring 2011, pp. 291-325.
‘The Other Kaiser: Wilhelm I and British Cartoonists, 1861-1914’, in Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 44, No.1, 2011, pp. 69-98.
‘Behind the Lines – Cartoons as Historical Sources’, in Agora, Volume 45, No.2, 2010, pp.11-18.
‘North Sea or German Ocean? The Anglo-German Cartographic Freemasonry, 1842-1914’, in Imago Mundi – the International Journal for the History of Cartography, Volume 62, No.1, Jan. 2010, pp.46-62 (with colour plates).
‘”A Pettish Little Emperor”: Cartoons of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Punch, 1888-1901’, in Richard Scully and Marian Quartly (eds), Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence, Clayton: Monash University ePress, 2009, pp.04.1-04.28
Other Publications
'The Cartoon Takes to the Stage: Two Transformative Moments in Political Satire in Britain', School of Arts Seminar Paper, 4th April 2013, at: http://blog.une.edu.au/artsnews/2013/04/04/cartoon-takes-to-the-stage/.
'Sex, Art, and the Victorian Cartoonist: the Case of Matt Morgan’, School of Humanities Classics and History Seminar Paper, 29th October, 2010, at: http://www.une.edu.au/humanities/Podcasts/richard-scully-29-10-10.mp3
‘Pardoning Our History – Breaker Morant and Today’s Australia’, Australian Policy and History, March 2010, at: http://www.aph.org.au/files/pdfs/pardoningPast.pdf.
‘Celtic Club’, in Andrew Brown-May & Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Melbourne: CUP, 2005, p.118 (online at: http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00313b.htm).
‘St Patrick’s College’, in Andrew Brown-May & Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Melbourne: CUP, 2005, p.634 (online at: http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01312b.htm).
‘St Patrick’s Day’, in Andrew Brown-May & Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Melbourne: CUP, 2005, pp.634-5 (online at: http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01313b.htm).
‘The Bankruptcy of Imperial Symbols’, in Eras – Edition 7, 2005, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/discussion.php.
Book and Exhibition reviews
In Your Face! Cartoons about Politics and Society, 1760-2010. Gordon Morrison. Victoria, Australia: Art Gallery of Ballarat, in International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 13, No.1, Spring 2011, pp.739-743.
Dominik Geppert & Robert Gerwarth (eds), Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Essays on Cultural Affinity, Oxford & London: Oxford University Press & the German Historical Institute, 2008, in First World War Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, 2010, pp.70-72.
Patrick Salmon, Keith Hamilton, Stephen Robert Twigge (eds), Berlin in the Cold War, 1948-90: Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III. London: Routledge, 2008. H-German online forum (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=25887).
Matthew Frank, Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. H-German online forum (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25248).
Rob Hess, Matthew Nicholson, Bob Stewart & George de Moore, A National Game, Melbourne: Viking Press, 2008; & James Watson (ed.), The History of Australian Rules Football, Melbourne: Geoff Slattery, 2008, in Eras – Edition 10, 2008, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-10/scully-review.pdf.
Peter Limb (ed.), Orb and Sceptre: Studies on British Imperialism and its Legacies, in Honour of Norman Etherington, Clayton: Monash University ePress, 2008, in Eras – Edition 10, 2008, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-10/scully-review2.pdf
Christopher Clarke, Iron Kingdom: the Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, London: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2007, in Eras – Edition 9, 2007, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-9/final-pdf-versions/scully-review1.pdf
Paul Strangio & Brian Costar (eds), The Victorian Premiers: 1856-2006, Federation Press: Annandale, 2006, in Eras – Edition 9, 2007, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-9/final-pdf-versions/scully-review2.pdf
Stuart Macintyre & Sean Scalmer (eds), What If? Australian History as it Might Have Been, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2006, in Eras – Edition 8, 2006, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-8/pdf/scully1review.pdf
George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade, Scribe: Melbourne, 2006, in Eras – Edition 8, 2006, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-8/pdf/scully2review.pdf
Martin Kitchen, A History of Modern Germany: 1800-2000, Malden: Blackwell, 2006, in Eras – Edition 8, 2006, at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-8/pdf/scully3review.pdf