Dr Emily Cock
Research Associate
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- cocke@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 6104
- Room 4.33, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, undertaking a three-year project Fragile Faces: Disfigurement in Britain and its Colonies (1600–1850). Fragile Faces explores the threat, experience and representation of facial disfigurement in Britain and its colonies in Virginia, Massachusetts and Australia from 1600 to 1850. I investigate what facial differences were considered disfiguring and how these differed between and within each region, with regard to assumptions of individual and group identity, disability, violence and legal approaches to disfigurement, gender and sexuality, and developing national and racial boundaries. My analysis challenges and critiques certain notions of facial normativity that are employed today in medical and legal frameworks, and the relation of facial difference to stigma and disability. I am a member of the Effaced from History research network on facial difference from antiquity to the present day, and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker (2019).
2019
- Cock, E. 2019. Proportionate maiming: The origins of Thomas Jefferson's provisions for facial disfigurement in Bill 64. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 29, pp. 157-151. (10.1017/S0080440119000069)
- Cock, E. 2019. Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture. Manchester University Press.
- Cock, E. 2019. Wounded: ‘A small Scar will be much discerned’: treating facial wounds in early modern Britain. Science Museum Group Journal 11(11) (10.15180/191111)
2018
- Skinner, P. and Cock, E. eds. 2018. Approaches to facial difference: past and present. Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Cock, E. 2018. In dock, out nettle: health and danger in the Early Modern garden. In: Skinner, P. and Herbert McAvoy, L. eds. The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain: Enclosure and Transformation, 1200-1750. Routledge, pp. 70-70.
- Cock, E. and Skinner, P. 2018. (Dis)functional faces: signs of the monstrous. In: Godden, R. and Mittman, A. eds. Embodied Difference: Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan
- Cock, E. 2018. Affecting glory from vices: negotiating shame in prostitution texts, 1660-1750. In: Maddern, P. and McEwan, J. eds. Performing Emotions in the Medieval and Early Modern World. Brepols
- Cock, E. and Skinner, P. 2018. Introduction: situating the different face. In: Cock, E. and Skinner, P. eds. Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present. Bloomsbury, pp. 1-8.
2017
- Cock, E. 2017. 'He would by no means risque his Reputation': patient and doctor shame in Daniel Turner's De Morbis Cutaneis (1714) and Syphilis (1717). Medical Humanities 43(4), pp. 231-237. (10.1136/medhum-2016-011057)
2016
- Cock, E. 2016. The à la mode disease: syphilis and temporality. In: Wetherall-Dickson, L. and Ingram, A. eds. Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fashioning the Unfashionable. Palgrave Macmillan
2015
- Cock, E. 2015. 'Lead[ing] 'em by the Nose into Publick Shame and Derision': Gaspare Tagliacozzi, Alexander Read and the lost history of plastic surgery, 1600-1800. Social History of Medicine 28(1), pp. 1-21. (10.1093/shm/hku070)
- Cock, E. 2015. 'Off dropped the sympathetic snout': Shame, sympathy, and plastic surgery at the beginning of the long eighteenth century. In: Lemmings, D. and Phiddian, R. eds. Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture: Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 145-164.
- Cock, E. 2015. 'Nonsence is rebellion?': John Taylor's Nonsence upon Sence, or Sence, upon Nonsence (1651-1654) and the English Civil War. Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 2
