Dr Marjorie Gehrhardt
Responsibilities
Admissions Officer for the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies.
Areas of Interest
I am a cultural historian specialising in 20th-century France. My main research interests are in the history of the First World War, visual culture studies and the history of the voluntary sector in Europe.
After I completed my PhD on the destinies and representations of WWI facially disfigured soldiers, I worked on the EU INTERREG-funded project 1914FACES2014 (2013-2015), which looked at the legacies of First World War facially disfigured soldiers and plastic surgery. The study of visible facial differences, their representations and impact on the person and the onlooker, remains a central aspect in my research.
I welcome enquiries concerning research supervision in any of my areas of research interest.
Teaching
At Part 1 I currently convene on the module 'The Making of Modern France'.
At Part 2 I teach translation as part of the language module and convene the module 'The First World War: Then and Now'.
At Part 3
I convene 'La Belle Epoque' and teach on the team-taught comparative module 'European Case Studies'. My Case Study introduces students to issues relating to memory and commemorations of the First World War in Europe since 1914.
I also contribute to teaching on our MA.
Qualifications
MRes in English Culture and History (University of Strasbourg, France)
MA in European Languages and Cultures (University of Exeter, UK)
PhD in French Studies (University of Exeter, UK)
Research groups / Centres
Publications
2017
- Gehrhardt, M. and Steele, S. (2017) Frederick Coates: First World War 'facial architect'. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 10 (1). pp. 7-24. ISSN 1752-6280 doi: 10.1080/17526272.2016.1238564
2016
- Gehrhardt, M. (2016) "Sourire quand même": la reconstruction des Gueules Cassées de la Grande Guerre en France et en Grande-Bretagne. RANAM (49). ISSN 0557-6989
2015
- Gehrhardt, M. (2015) The men with broken faces: 'Gueules Cassées' of the First World War. Cultural History and Literary Imagination, 25. Peter Lang Ltd, Oxford, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, pp304. ISBN 9783034318693
- Jones, D. H. and Gehrhardt, M., eds. (2015) Paddy Hartley: of faces and facades. Black Dog Publishing, London. ISBN 9781910433317
2014
- Gehrhardt, M., Guillot, H. and Labadie, J.-C. (2014) Le soldat blessé et soigné. In: Nivet, P., Coutant-Daydé, C. and Stoll, M. (eds.) Archives de la Grande Guerre: Des sources pour l'histoire. Archives de France & Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, pp. 183-189. ISBN 9782753535480
2013
- Gehrhardt, M. (2013) Gueules cassées: the men behind the masks. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 6 (4). pp. 267-281. ISSN 1752-6272 doi: 10.1179/1752628013Y.0000000004
- Gehrhardt, M. (2013) Gueules cassées and the ambiguity of violence. In: Zitzlsperger, U. (ed.) Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 151-162. ISBN 9781443850377
- Gehrhardt, M. (2013) Walking reminders of the war: the case of facially disfigured veterans. In: Niznik, J. (ed.) Twentieth Century Wars in European Memory. Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas (1). Peter Lang, Frankfurt, pp. 103-115. ISBN 9783631627853