Episode 23: Animal Imagery in the British Empire with Dave DeCamp

Join us as we talk to Dave DeCamp as he talks about his dissertation work and animal imagery in the British Empire's self-imagination: "The Elephant in the Room: Empire, Animals, and Popular Culture in Interwar London". From the household to the tube station, imperial influence at home was one of the many sites where empire was re-imagined and rearticulated. Dave's dissertation focuses use of exotic animal imagery in London’s popular culture during the interwar. This animal imagery is significant to understanding the ways humans represent non-humans, other humans as non-humans, and the disconnect between the imagined and experienced geographies of empire. Dave also talks about his work in the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern, the "Our Marathon" project on the Boston Marathon bombings, and Digital Humanities. He gives his advice for surviving a PhD program. Books mentioned in podcast: Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1880-1960 by John M. MacKenzie https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2226036.Propaganda_and_Empire Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity by David Gilbert (Editor) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1578443.Imperial_Cities An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture by Randy Malamud https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13722019-an-introduction-to-animals-and-visual-culture The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England by Harriet Ritvo https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1502905.The_Animal_Estate The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo by Ian Jared Miller https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13277124-the-nature-of-the-beasts Showing seeing: a critique of visual culture W.J.T. Mitchell https://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/methods/mitchell.pdf The Right to Look Nicholas Mirzoeff http://nicholasmirzoeff.com/RTL/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/RTL-from-CI.pdf The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg