Professor Richard Scully

Professor in Modern History , Modern History - School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Richard Scully

Email: rscully@une.edu.au

Twitter: @DrRScully

Biography

Born in Melbourne and educated at Xavier College (1991-98), Richard discovered an early passion for History via Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, and the Astérix stories of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. He studied at Monash University (1999-2003), where he was awarded the Ian Turner Memorial Prize for his BA (Honours) thesis (2003) and the J. D. Legge Prize for the best overall result in fourth-year History (graduated 2004). While studying for his PhD (awarded 2008), Richard worked as a sessional tutor, Associate Lecturer, and Lecturer in History and International Studies. He came to the UNE at the beginning of 2009 as Lecturer in Modern European History, pursuing his interests in teaching the 1789-2000 period, and his main areas of research interest (the cultural history of Anglo-German relations; the Great War; comic art and political cartoons). In 2012, Richard was awarded a DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) by the Australian Research Council, to explore the history of Anglo-American cartooning from 1721 (funded 2013-2015 inclusive); and a follow-up ARC Discovery Project (2023-2026) examines Australia's cartoon history. Richard has been  Visiting Scholar at the Flinders University of South Australia (2014), the University of Cambridge (2015), and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2018-Present). Between 2018 and 2020, Richard served as the elected staff representative of the UNE University Council.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University (2008)
Bachelor of Arts (Honours, 1st Class), Monash University (2004)

Professional Affiliations and Research Engagement

  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (United Kingdom)
  • Australasian Association for European History (Member, Executive Committee – 2017-Present)
  • EIRIS — Equipe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l'Image Satirique (l'Equipe HCTI, de l'Université de Bretagne Occidentale).
  • Australasian Humour Studies Network (AHSN), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney.
  • Australian Cartoonists' Association (Associate Member, 2012-Present).
  • The Cartoon Museum, London (Life Member, 2017-Present).
  • Political Cartoon Society, London (Life Member, 2017-Present).
  • UNEXIX - 19th Century Studies @ UNE
  • St Albert's College Board of Directors (2017-Present).

Teaching Areas

  • Modern European History, 1700s-Present:
    • HIST357 - War, Nations, and Empires: Modern Europe, 1789-1914
    • HIST328 - Modern Europe in War and Peace: 1918 to Yesterday
    • HIST324 - Ashes to Ashes: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1945
    • HIST368 - The Swinging Sixties
    • HIST513 - Empires and Imperialism in History
    • HIST517 - Mr Punch's Britain! A Cartoon History, 1841-1914

Research Interests

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4012-4991

  • Global history, and historical uses, of political cartoons.
  • British interactions with, and images of, Germany and other European nations.
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth-century British and European history (social, imperial, economic, military, political, gender and cultural).

Students interested in research projects in these or affiliated areas are most welcome to submit an email query.

Major Competitive Grants

ARC Discovery Grant - 'Cartoon Nation: Australian Editorial Cartooning - Past, Present, and Future' (2023-2026 inclusive).

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

Marcus K. Harmes and Richard Scully (eds), Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Catherine Dewhirst and Richard Scully (eds), Voices of Challenge in Australia's Migrant and Minority Press, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Catherine Dewhirst and Richard Scully (eds), The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Richard Scully and Andrekos Varnava (eds), Comic Empires: The Imperialism of Cartoons, Caricature and Satirical Art, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.

Richard Scully, Eminent Victorian Cartoonists (3 Volumes), London: The Political Cartoon Society, 2018.

Richard Scully, British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism, & Ambivalence, 1860-1914, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Richard Scully and Marian Quartly (eds), Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence,Clayton: Monash University ePress, 2009 - reissued, 2011.

Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters (select)

‘Talking Pictures (and cartoons, videos, memes, and more besides)’ [with Lucien Leon], in Marian Sawer (ed.), The 2022 Australian Federal Election, Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2023  (forthcoming).

‘Les magazines satiriques britanniques et la guerre franco-prussienne’, in Eva Lafuente and Heidi Knörzer (eds), Chroniquer la guerre de 1870, Paris: Les Editions de l'Ecole Polytechnique, 2023 (forthcoming).

‘Cartooning as ‘Epitheatre’: The Case of Victorian and Edwardian London’, Ridiculosa – une publication annuelle de l’EIRIS, 29, 2022, pp.93-114.

“For Gorsake, Stop Laughing: This is Serious!”—Australia’s Fragile Cartooning Archive, [with Robert Phiddian, Lindsay Foyle, and Stephanie Brookes], Journal of Australian Studies, published online, 2 November 2022.

‘Kaiser, King, and Caricature: Franz Joseph in British Cartoons, 1848-1916’, [with Mathew Paterson] International Journal of Comic Art, 24: 1, 2022, pp.126-158.

‘“For gorsake, stop laughing! This is serious”: The British World as a Community of Cartooning and Satirical Art’, in Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White (eds), Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives, Bern: Peter Lang, 2022, pp.139-175.

‘Australia’s Migrant and Minority Community Press and Cultural Heritage: An Introduction’ [with Catherine Dewhirst], in Catherine Dewhirst & Richard Scully (eds), Voices of Challenge Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp.1-14.

‘Maxtible’s Mirrors: Victorian Science in Classic-Era Doctor Who’ [with Marcus K. Harmes] in Marcus K. Harmes and Lindy A. Orthia (eds), Doctor Who and Science: Essays on Ideas Identities and Ideologies in the Series, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2021, pp.142-56.

‘The Satirical Press of Colonial Australia: A Migrant and Minority Enterprise’, in Catherine Dewhirst & Richard Scully (eds), The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp.19-36.

‘George VI in Cartoons: The King Vanishes’, Contemporary British History, Volume 34, Number 3, 2020 pp.358-388.

‘Cultivating Fear: The Image of SA and the Presence of Propaganda in the late-Weimar Öffentlichkeit’ [with Jacob Berg] in Thomas J. Kehoe and Michael Pickering (eds),  Fear in the German-Speaking World, 1600-2000, 2020, London: Bloomsbury, pp.123-163.

‘Courting the Colonies: Linley Sambourne of Punch and Imperial Allegory’ [with Robert Dingley] in Richard Scully & Andrekos Varnava (eds), Comic Empires: The Imperialism of Cartoons, Caricature and Satirical Art, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, pp.31-65.

‘Britain in the Melbourne Punch: 1855-1901’, Visual Culture in Britain, Volume 20, Number 2 – Special Issue: Graphic Satire in the Long Nineteenth Century, July, 2019, pp.152-171.

‘Mark Knight vs Serena Williams – Crossing the Line: Offensive and Controversial Cartoons in the 21st Century – “The View from Australia” – Part Two’, International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 21, Number 1, Spring/Summer, 2018, pp.151-176.

‘The Australian Political Cartoon – An Historiographical Overview’ [with Robert Phiddian], International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 20, No.1, Spring/Summer, 2018, pp.367-383.

'Kaiser Cartoons, 1914-1918: A Transnational Comic Art Genre', in Michael Walsh & Andrekos Varnava (eds), The Great War and the British Empire: Culture and Society, London New York: Routledge, 2017, pp.41-62.

‘Antipodean Perspectives – (Nearly) Fifty Years of the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH)’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Volume 62, No.4, 2016, pp.576-591.

'A Family Business: the Bartholomews of Edinburgh in the First World War', War & Society, Volume 35, No.1, 2016, pp.60-102.

‘Founding a Dynasty and an Art-Form: John Doyle (1797-1868)’, International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 18, Number 1, 2016, pp.60-102.

‘The Foundations of the Anglo-American Tradition of Political Satire and Comic Art: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 17, No.2, 2015, pp.98-132.

‘Crossing the Line: Offensive and Controversial Cartoons in the 21st Century – “The View from Australia”’, International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 17, No.1,2015, pp.336-357.

'An Australian Comic Breakthrough: Craig San Roque's The Long Weekend in Alice Springs. Adapted and drawn by Joshua Santospirito – A Dialogue', International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 17, No.1, 2015, pp.131-148.

'A Serious Matter: Erwin D. Swann (1906-1973) and the Collection of Caricature and Cartoon', Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 27, No.1, 2015, pp.111-122.

'Comic Empires: Cartoons, Caricature and Imperialism: A Symposium. Introduction', International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 16, No.2, 2014, pp.58-64 [Full symposium: pp.57-131].

'Accounting for Transformative Moments in the History of the Political Cartoon', International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 16, No.2, 2014, pp.332-364.

'Towards a Global History of the Political Cartoon: Challenges and Opportunities', International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 16, No.1, 2014, pp.29-47.

'The Origins of William Ewart Gladstone's Nickname, "The Grand Old Man"', Notes & Queries, Volume 61, Number 1, March 2014, pp.95-100.

'William Henry Boucher (1837-1906): Illustrator and Judy Cartoonist', Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume46, Number 4, Winter 2013, pp.441-474.

'The History of the Australian Satirical Press', Ridiculosa – une publication annuelle de l'EIRIS, Hors série - La presse satirique dans le monde, 2013, pp.527-541.

'A Comic Empire: The Global Expansion of Punch as a Model Publication, 1841-1936', International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 15, No.2, 2013, pp.6-35.

'The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone and Disraeli Through William Empson's Looking Glass',International Journal of Comic Art, Volume 15, No.1, Spring 2013, pp. 323-337.

'Doctor Who and the Racial State: Fighting National Socialism across Time and Space', in Lindy Orthia (ed.), Doctor Who and Race, Bristol: Intellect, 2013, pp.179-195.

'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', inImago 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

'Pictures With a Point', Communication Director, 03/2013 (The corporate media mix), 2013, pp.42-45.

'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.

'Pardoning Our Past – Breaker Morant and Today's Australia', Australian Policy and History, March 2010, at: http://aph.org.au/pardoning-our-past-breaker-morant-and-todays-australia/

'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).