Activities per year
Personal profile
Research Focus
The project traces the historical memory of disguised female American Civil War soldiers. It examines their representation within various mediums of public memory. This includes popular fiction, newspaper coverage, public commemoration, and academic scholarship. The project’s chronology begins during the war itself and ranges up until the late twentieth century. It uncovers the multifaceted reasons as to why the contemporarily well-known phenomenon of disguised female Civil War soldiers eventually disappeared from public knowledge and memory of the war. Consequently, the project illuminates discriminatory trends within both public historical commemoration and historiography. Whilst there has been an increasing academic attention placed on these women, research on disguised female soldiers remains significantly underdeveloped. The project is an important and significant addition to this small yet growing body of historical scholarship.
Teaching
I have acted as a TA on the course HIS2028- The American South - September 2020-December 2020
Prizes
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John Beecher Memorial Prize
Taylor, E. (Recipient), Oct 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Civil War Calamity Janes: Fictionalized Representations of Disguised Female Soldiers during the American Civil War
Taylor, E. (Presenter)
05 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
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History Research Seminar Series
Taylor, E. (Speaker)
12 Mar 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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History Research Seminar Series- School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics - 2021 series
Taylor, E. (Member of the organising committee)
2021 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Wonder Women & Rebel Girls: women warriors in the media, 18th-21st centuries- Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin
Taylor, E. (Participant)
2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Southern Historical Association annual conference- 2020
Taylor, E. (Participant)
2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference