Peter Leese
Associate Professor
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Emil Holms Kanal 6
2300 København S
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Primary fields of research
Historical Trauma: transnational and cultural approaches
War, violence and psyche 19th-21st c
Migration: histories of experience, memory and narrative
Methodologies (micro; oral; visual)
Teaching
War, Technology and Culture in the 20th c (MA)
Migration Histories, Migration Stories 1800-2000 (MA)
Visualising the Migrant Past (MA)
Europe's 20th century: societies and cultures (BA)
Traumatic Memory: personal and collective histories (BA)
London 1800-2000 (BA)
Selected publications
- Published
Migrant Representations: life story, investigation, picture
Leese, Peter, 15 Jan 2022, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 304 p. (Migrations and Identities, Vol. 9).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
- Published
Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD
Leese, Peter, 22 Nov 2022, Resilience: Militaries and Militarism. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, p. 75-98 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- Published
Resilience before PTSD: or, Robert Vas vs The Bomb
Leese, Peter, 1 Nov 2022, In: Critical Military Studies. 8, 4, p. 428-442 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
The Limits of Trauma: Experience and narrative in Europe c. 1945
Leese, Peter, 1 Jan 2022, Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe after World War Two. Leese, P. & Kivimaki, V. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, p. 3-26 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- Published
Languages of trauma: History, memory, and media
Leese, Peter (ed.), Köhne, J. B. (ed.) & Crouthamel, J. (ed.), 1 Mar 2021, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 408 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
- Published
Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War
Leese, Peter, 1 Oct 2014, Revised ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 240 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
Selected activities
Resilience and Reconstruction
Leese, Peter (Organizer)
30 Nov 2023 → 1 Dec 2023Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
11th International Health Humanities Conference.
Leese, Peter (Workshop leader)
21 Sep 2023 → 23 Sep 2023Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
War Trauma and Mass Violence
Leese, Peter (Participant)
19 Jun 2023 → 23 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Witnessing the Now
Leese, Peter (Participant)
24 Feb 2023Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Personal Sources in Migration Studies
Leese, Peter (Organizer)
25 Nov 2022Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Culture and the Mind
Leese, Peter (Organizer) & Antic, Ana (Organizer)
28 May 2021Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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"Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain 1914–30. By Fiona Reid. Continuum. 2010; Treating the Trauma of the Great War: Soldiers, Civilians and Psychiatry in France 1914–1940. By Gregory M. Thomas. Louisiana State University Press. 2009; The Politics of War Trauma: The Aftermath of World War II in Eleven European Countries. Edited by Jolande Withuis and Annet Mooij. Aksant. 2010."
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review › Research › peer-review
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