Dr Victoria Carolan
Job title
Visiting Lecturer
Department
Greenwich Maritime Institute
Qualifications
BA, MA, PhD
Biography
Victoria Carolan is a cultural historian specialising in maritime history and film. She has just completed her doctoral thesis, British Maritime History, National Identity and Film 1900-1960 at Queen Mary, University of London. She previously held a two year research fellowship at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht funded by the Dutch Government, looking at maritime identities through history, philosophy and photography. With a first degree in Literature and Film she completed her MA in Maritime History at the Greenwich Maritime Institute in 2002. Victoria is also the secretary of the Heritage and Craft Committee for the Society of Nautical Research.
Research/scholarly interests
- Representations of the maritime sphere in popular culture, especially film.
- Naval Propaganda and censorship.
- The relation between the maritime sphere and national identity.
- Shipbuilding communities.
- The Royal Navy and Merchant Navy during the First and Second World Wars.
Selected publications
Articles and Chapters in Books
Carolan, V, (forthcoming 2012) ‘Regional Voices/ National Causes: The Shipyard Worker on Screen’, in Duncan Redford (ed.) The Sea and Identity. London: I. B. Tauris.
Carolan, V, (2011), ‘The Shipping Forecast and British National Identity’, The Journal of Maritime Research, 13/2.
Books for a general readership
Carolan, V (2007), WW1 at Sea. London: Pocket Essentials.
Carolan, V, (2005), Nelson. London: Pocket Essentials.