Ana Carden-coyne
Senior Lecturer
War and Conflict
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Carden-Coyne is co-Director of the Centre for the Cultural History of War (CCHW) in 2003, and has been deployed in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIDRA) in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures. Her monograph "Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism and the First World War" (Oxford University Press, 2009) examines the impact of war on culture and society, and the powerful political and personal forces that motivated reconstruction between 1918 and 1933 in Britain, the United States and Australia, and reflecting on wider experiences in Europe. Carden-Coyne has edited a volume on Gender and Conflict Since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Palgrave, 2012), which brings scholars from the humanities and social sciences together to consider the impact of war on gender roles in the past and present.
Research Interest
The main research interests include the following: cultural impact of war war medicine & surgery humanitarianism and local/global exchange peace & reconstruction
Publications
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Men in Pain: Silence, Stories and Soldiers'Bodies in WW1
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The POlitics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War
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Gender, Sexuality and the First World War
