Faculty Postholders
Dr Ruth Harris
M.A., D.Phil.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Research Interests
Dr Harris is currently engaged in a history of the Dreyfus Affair; she has written widely on topics in French history, in the history of medicine, cultural history and women's history.
Selected Publications:
- Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law and Society in the Fin de Siècle. (Oxford, 1989)
- (ed.) J. M. Charcot, Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous . (London, 1990)
- '"The Child of the Barbarian": Rape, Race and Nationalism in France during the First World War', Past and Present. Vol 141 (1993)
- Lourdes: Body and spirit in the secular age. (Harmondsworth, 1999) 473pp.
- 'The "Unconscious" and Catholicism in France', The Historical Journal. Vol 47(2) (2004) pp. 331-354
- 'Lourdes Les Femmes et la Spiritualité ', Mélanges De L'École Française De Rome . Vol 117 (2005) pp. 621-634
- ''Les Miraculees de Lourdes'' in Les Femmes dans les sciences de l'homme (XIXe-XX siecles): Inspiratrices, collaboratrices ou creatrices?. (Paris, 2005) pp. 287-300
Future Publications:
- The Dreyfus Affair.
- (ed.) The Art of Survival: Essays in Honour of Olwen Hufton . Vol Past and Present Supplements, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2006) approx 250pp.
- Spiritual Friendships and the Dreyfus Affair (for the next RAE). (Wisconsin, 2008)
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