Dr Victoria Carolan BA, MA, PhD

Senior Lecturer

Victoria Carolan is a cultural historian specialising in maritime history and film. She completed her doctoral thesis, British Maritime History, National Identity and Film 1900-1960 at Queen Mary, University of London in 2012. 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. At Greenwich Victoria is responsible for the Greenwich Memory Network and a joint organiser of the Great War Greenwich project.

Victoria welcomes research proposals on any aspect of British film (1895- present) especially in relation to the following: representation of history or conflict and documentary in British industries; Second World War home front; maritime and naval topics with a cultural approach.

See more about the University History Research Group here.