Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Jodie researches nineteenth-century representations and experiences of people who travelled around Britain (including Romanies/Gypsies and canal boat people), and the cultural significance of Britain's industrial waterways. In 2016 she was appointed the Canal & River Trust’s first Honorary Research Fellow. You can watch a YouTube video about Jodie’s research on canal boat people. She strongly believes in communicating academic research to wide audiences, and works with charities, museums and heritage organisations, schools and others.
If you are from a school or college and would like to speak to Jodie about a campus visit, Extended Project Qualification, or university taster sessions, please email j.matthews@hud.ac.uk.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Representations of Gypsies, Roma or Travellers, especially in the nineteenth century
- Waterways and their cultures
- Race, gender and identity in the nineteenth century
- Travel in the nineteenth century
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Projects
- 1 Finished
Gypsies, Roma, and Irish Travellers: Histories, Perceptions, and Representations, A Review
1/02/12 → 31/10/12
Project: Research
Research Output
Canals and Black British History: A Preliminary Literature Review
Matthews, J., 10 Jul 2020, (Unpublished) 16 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Canals in Nineteenth-Century Literary History
Matthews, J., 26 Jun 2020, Transport and its Place in History: Making the Connections. Turner, D. (ed.). 1st ed. Abingdon & New York: Routledge, p. 136-150 15 p. (Routledge Studies in Modern British History).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Foreword
Matthews, J., 31 May 2020, I Dig Canals: How Women Helped Save the Waterways. Productions, A. (ed.). Independent Publishing Network, p. 7 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
Romani Rebel Writing: George 'Lazzy' Smith's Entrepreneurial Auto-Exoticism
Matthews, J. & Lee, K., 22 Sep 2019, (Accepted/In press) Rebellious Writing : Contesting Marginalisation in Edwardian Britain. O'Hagan, L. A. (ed.). Peter Lang Ltd, (Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century; vol. 10).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Visibly Authentic: Images of Romani people from 19th-century culture to the digital age
Matthews, J., 13 Mar 2019, Heritage as Community Research: Legacies of Co-Production. Graham, H. & Vergunst, J. (eds.). Bristol : Policy PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities
‘As if one is looking at a painting, framed by barbed wire’: Cyprus in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
Jodie Matthews (Keynote speaker)
14 Sep 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Reading the Waterways
Jodie Matthews (Speaker)
5 Dec 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Reading the Waterways: People, Literature, and Canals in Britain since 1761
Jodie Matthews (Speaker)
12 Mar 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
"Waterways History Research?": Why Canal History Matters
Jodie Matthews (Speaker)
24 Jun 2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Canals in Nineteenth-Century Literary History
Jodie Matthews (Speaker)
7 Apr 2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press / Media
Centuries of Prejudice Means Gypsies and Travellers are still Political Targets Today
6/12/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
National Waterways Museum Calls a Doctor In
11/02/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities