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Rebecca Jennings is a professor in Modern Gender History at University College London, where she joined the History department in 2016. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in 2003, followed by a research fellowship at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her teaching and research focus on aspects of gender and sexuality in modern Britain, particularly relating to twentieth-century British and Australian lesbian history. Jennings is especially interested in themes such as selfhood, subjectivity, personal testimonies, kinship, family life, and the cultural representations of lesbianism, as well as sexual subcultures. She is currently working on a project that explores the entanglement of lesbian and trans subjectivities in post-war Britain. In addition to her scholarly work, Jennings serves as the Admissions Tutor for History and the Vice Dean for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at UCL. Her significant publications include 'Lesbian Intimacies: Family Life, Desire, and Domesticity in Britain and Australia, 1945-2000' and 'Unnamed Desires: Sydney Lesbian History'.
University College London • London
Professor in Modern Gender History, teaching and conducting research.