Richard Scully - School of Historical Studies Staff
Position
Lecturer, HistoryPhone
61-3-9905 2161Address
School of Historical StudiesBuilding 11
Monash University Victoria 3800
Australia
Location
6th Floor, Menzies Building
Personal History
Studying Law, History and English Literature at Monash since 1999, Richard completed his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in the School of Historical Studies in 2003. He commenced a PhD in the School in March 2004, completing in March 2008. Richard held the temporary position of Lecturer in 2007, and commenced as an Assistant Lecturer at the beginning of 2008. During his doctoral candidature, Richard was active as a sessional tutor and guest lecturer in a variety of undergraduate courses in History and International Studies.
Current Research
Richard is currently working on an edited collection of essays on the use of political cartoons as sources in history. Titled Drawing the Line, the collection includes work from postgraduate and early-career researchers from Europe, Australia, North America, Africa and Asia, and deals with a number of key issues of representation (class, gender, race, religion, etc.). The book is scheduled for publication by the Monash University ePress in late 2008. Richard is also working on turning the research for his dissertation into book or shorter format; including the portrayal of Germany and the Germans in British cartography, travel literature, popular and literary fiction, the press and political cartoons, c.1860-1914.
Major Publications
'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, Number 1, Jan 2010 (forthcoming).
Richard Scully, 'Punch and the Kaiser: Complexity and Continuity in Cartoons of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1901', in Richard Scully & Marian Quartly (eds), Drawing the Line: new research on cartoons and history, Clayton: Monash University ePress, 2009 (forthcoming).
Contributor ('Celtic Club'; 'St Patrick's College'; 'St Patrick's Day'), Andrew Brown-May & Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Areas of Research & Supervision
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European social, imperial, economic, military, political, and cultural history; Modern European history; History of, and use of political cartoons.
Teaching
HSY1111 - Nations at War IHSY1112 - Nations at War II
INT1010 - Contemporary Worlds I
INT1020 - Contemporary Worlds II