To keep our provision continuously socially relevant and ever more inclusive of our global past and present, we keep looking for the best and brightest. This time we introduce to you: Josh, David, Yentl and Sunday.
Josh Hepple
Josh is an activist, educator and playwright with cerebral palsy and a speech impairment’ and therefore uses an assistant as part of his teaching. Josh campaigns on disability rights and has contributed to many publications including the Guardian. He is involved with the Samaritans and works as a disability consultant to many theatres and teaches communication skills to a wide range of health science students. His academic background is human rights law and spent many years campaigning for the international decriminalisation of same sex activity as part of various NGOs. He then academically reflected on and critiqued his own work through a post colonial perspective.
David Ingledew
David has over twenty years’ experience in secondary schools and higher education. He holds a degree in Economics and History and a MA in History from Oxford Brookes University and has been an active member of the Historical Association (HA) and was recently a member of the People of 1381 Teacher Fellowship programme. He has also presented at history education conferences in Europe and the USA. His specific area of teaching expertise is post-1945 British political, economic, and social history particularly the 1978-79 Winter of Discontent and the Thatcher governments 1979-1990 but he teaches beyond these topics: British history 1603-1997; Russian history 1881-1990; American history 1865-2008, particularly the struggle for black equality; the use of popular music in history learning; and medicine history, c.1300 to the present day; and migration c. 1700 to the present day. David spends his spare time tending an unruly allotment, purveying homemade jam, and listening to Northern Soul music.
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Yentl Love
Yentl Love is a historian currently completing her PhD at the University of Potsdam, where her research explores concepts of gender identity and sexuality within the Roman cult of Bacchus through the lens of Queer Theory. Outside of her PhD, Yentl has authored publications on LGBT+ lives in Ancient Greece, Queer Reception Theory, and Queer Theory in Roman literature, and has presented at global conferences on gender non-conformity in ancient religion, and Queer receptions of Antiquity in media. In addition to this, Yentl has lectured on gender and sexuality in the ancient world, as well as teaching short courses on gender identities within Greek and Roman literature. Her academic interests include gender and sexuality, sacred landscapes, and religion in the ancient world, as well as social identity in the Hellenistic periods and Ancient Near East.
Dr Sunday Ogunode
Dr Sunday Ogunode holds a BA, in History and International Studies (First Class honours) and an MPhil and PhD in History. He started his university teaching career as a Graduate Fellow in 2009 and took on the position of Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of African History in 2021. His research and teaching focused initially on the history of Sub-Saharan Africa and, within that, the socio-political history of Nigeria with a focus on kingship, kinship, and power politics since the pre-colonial period. More recently, he has extended his teaching and research to also encompass prisoners’ rights, prison labour, social justice, unjust imprisonment, and penal systems in modern Africa, peace/conflict studies, imperial history, and Africa’s relations with the global community. Well versed in higher education and the international research scene, Dr. Ogunode is very excited to meeting the learners of City Lit.
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