Carey Fleiner

Carey Fleiner is Senior Lecturer in Classical and Medieval History. She completed a BA with Distinction in History from the University of Delaware, USA, in 1983; she received an MA (1991) and PhD (1996) in History from the University of Virginia. Her areas of concentration in graduate school were Carolingian Europe (main), and subfields of Imperial Rome, Medieval Latin, and Medieval Palaeography. She worked as an Independent Scholar and private tutor until 2004 when she returned to Delaware to earn a Certification in Museum Studies.

After a brief contract in the Dept of Prehistory and Europe at the British Museum in 2005, she joined the Associate in Arts Faculty at the University of Delaware in 2006. She taught Ancient History and Popular Music History at the Associate in Arts Program until 2012; she also worked as an instructor for the same university’s International Teaching Assistant Program, training international graduate students on American culture and pedagogy. Carey joined the History Department at Winchester in autumn 2012.

Teaching responsibilities include modules on the Pax Romana, Roman Republic, Julius & Augustus Caesar, Sport & Leisure in the Roman world, and occasionally the Carolingian Renaissance.

She held the position of Programme Leader for the Classical Studies programme from its validation in 2014-2019.

Higher Education Teaching Qualification: Higher Education Academy Fellowship (FHEA)

• Roman history, especially Imperial Roman society and its reception in popular culture, Julio-Claudian women, the Neronian court
• Classical Reception in the early Carolingian era
• Popular music in culture and society, with an emphasis on the 'British Invasion', specifically the Kinks, topics in gender roles in popular music, and the history of recorded sound

• Imperial Rome
• Carolingian Europe
• 1960s popular music studies

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Books and edited volumes

Commemoration, Competition and Classical Reception in the Carolingian Court: the Poetry of Ermoldus Nigellus (c. 829). University of Liverpool Press, 2024.

A Writer’s Guide to History: The Romans. University of Manchester Press, 2020.

 Doctor Who and History: critical essays on imaging the past (McFarland & Co, 2017). Co-edited with Dene October.

The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).

Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Eras (co-edited with Elena Woodacre; Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Royal mothers and their ruling children: wielding political authority from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era (co-edited with Elena Woodacre, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

‘Heroes and Villains: The Medieval Guitarist and Modern Parallels,’ in James Robinson, K. Buehler-Williams, and Naomi Speakman, The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives (British Museum Research Publication). London: The British Museum, September 2015, 51-60.

Articles. Chapters, and Book reviews

Book Review: Andrew Kellett. The British Blues Network: Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2017. Pp. 263. £22.17 (cloth). Journal of British Studies, Volume TBC. 2017 / 2018

Book Review: Johannes Fried, Charlemagne. Peter Lewis, trans., Harvard University Press, 2016 for Europe Now (November 2017). http://www.europenowjournal.org/2017/11/01/charlemagne-by-johannes-fried/

Book Review: Kari Kallioniemi, Englishness, Pop and Post-War Britain (Bristol: Intellect, 2016) for Popular Music and Society (Routledge) 41.2 (May 2018).

Chapter: ‘‘She is my Eleanor:’ The Character of Isabella of Angouleme in Novels and Film: A Medieval Queen in Modern Media,’ (TBC) Pre-modern Rulers and (Post)modern Viewers: Gender, Sex and Power in Popular Culture. Janice North, Ellie Woodacre, and Karl Alvestad, eds., Palgrave, 2018.

Chapter: ‘‘Rosy, Won’t You Please Come Home:’ Family, Home, and Cultural Identity in the Music of Ray Davies and the Kinks'’ in Mark Donnelly, Lee Brooks and Richard Mills, eds., Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identity. Bloomsbury Press.  2017. 

Book Review: Timothy D. Taylor, The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Review for Popular Music and Society, 40.1, February 2017: 113- 115.

Book Review: Tell Tchaikovsky the News: Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Labor Question, and the Musicians Union, 1942-1968, Michael James Roberts (Durham [NC]: Duke University Press, 2014. Review for Rock Music Studies 2.3, October 2015.

  Book Review: C. Partridge, Lyre of Orpheus, Review for Rock Music Studies 2.2 May 2015.

Book Review: Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome by J. Bert Lott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Review for Royal Studies Journal, 1.1 (2015), 51-53.

Book Review: Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece, Donald Kagan and Gregory F. Viggiano, eds. Review for Classical World, 108.1 (2014): 146-48.

Book Review: The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967: From Dance Hall to the 100 Club by Frith, Brennan, Cloonan, and Webster. Review for Popular Music and Society 37.5, December 2014.

Book Review: Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record, Richard Osborne. Review for Rock Music Studies 1.1, February 2014.

‘Surf Rock’ for the revised Grove Dictionary of American Music (OUP) (Oct. 2013).

'The Influence of Family and Childhood Experience on the Works of Ray and Dave Davies' Popular Music and Society 34.3 (July 2011), 329-50.

'History of Rock and Roll Courses: Bridging the Gap Between Reaction and Reality', The Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Vol 17 (2008), 89-102.

'Keeping Time: Lute Strings and 16th Century English Clock Repairs', Galpin Society Journal, April 2006.

'Dulcet Tones: Changing a Gittern into a Citole', British Museum Magazine: The Magazine for the British Museum Friends No 53 (Autumn/Winter 2005): 45.

Memberships and editorial roles

• Royal Historical Society (Member, December 2011-)
• Delaware Classical Association (Vice President 2008-2012)
• Classical Association of the Atlantic States
• International Association for the Study of Popular Music
• Phi Alpha Theta (History Fraternity)
• Popular Cultural Society (PCA/ACA)
• Outside reviewer/editor for Routledge, Prentice Hall and Pearson on new editions of music texts

Funding awards and prizes

• Scouloudi Historial Research Award 2020
• Medium Aevum Research Travel Bursary, 2020.
• E. Adelaide Hahn Classical Scholarship 2012, (finalist for summer school at the BSR, but had to decline)
  Dena Epstein Award 2012 (finalist)
• Research Assistant Grant, British Museum, London, Summer 2005
• Research Assistant Grant, Autumn, MIT, Autumn 1994
• Research Assistant Grant, University of Virginia, Spring 1993
• Nora Zeale Prize, Women's Studies Department, University of Virginia, 1990

Recent Conference Papers:

Presenter: Franks, Romans, pagani: ‘National’ Identity in the Poems of Ermoldus Nigellus. IMC 6-9 July 2020 Proposal Accepted.

Presenter: Nero & the Gladiators: Emperor Nero’s Musical Legacy, 2000 Years On’. EuroPCA July 2020 (Krakow). Proposal Accepted.

Presenter:  Just an English Boy who won a Holiday in Waikiki:’ The Culture of English Humour in the Music and Performance of the Kinks’. Britain and the World 2020. University of Plymouth, Plymouth 17-19 June 2020. Proposal Accepted.

Presenter: ‘‘I used to play in a rock & roll band…now I’m playing in a rocking chair’: Age, remembrance, and commemoration – the case of Ray Davies, X-Ray, and Village Green Preservation Society’. EUPOP 2019, Mary Immaculata College, Limerick, Ireland, 16-18 July 2019.

Presenter: ‘Humour in the Poetry of Ermoldus Nigellus.’ IMC, Leeds, 1-4 July 2019.

Presenter: Old Age and Ageing in the Music of the Kinks. PCA, Washington, D.C., April 2019.

Presenter: ‘Reading Between the Lines: Evidence of the writing and public speaking of Agrippina the Younger (A. D. 15-59).’ Kings and Queens 7, University of Winchester, 9 July 2018.

Presenter: ‘Commemoration – or not – of women in the Work of the Carolingian Poet Ermoldus Nigellus (Ninth Century).’ IMC, Leeds, July 2018.

Presenter: ‘This Strange Effect: Americana, Anglophilia, and The Kinks.’ 2018 Britain and the World Conference, Exeter, 21-23rd June 2018. 

Presenter, ‘I am the victim of my own genius:’ The Influence of Ovid’s Exilic Epistolary Verse on the Exile Poetry of Ermoldus Nigellus (829).’ IMC, Leeds, July 2017

Presenter: ‘Maximum Consumption: The Kinks and Television Advertising,’ PCA/ACA National Conference, San Diego, April 2017.

Presenter: ‘Englishness and English Identity in 20th century Popular Music: The Kinks,’ Research Sharing Seminar, Centre for English Studies, University of Winchester, 15 September 2016.

Presenter: ‘‘Misfits’ – The Kinks’ Fan Culture & Identity,’ EuroPCA 2016, Paris, 20-22 July 2016.

Presenter: 'She is my Eleanor:' The Character of Isabella of Angouleme in Novels and Film: A Medieval Queen in Modern Media’ IMC, Leeds, July 2016.

Presenter: ‘Exile and Ermoldus Nigellus (829): The Influence of Ovid on Ad Pippinum Regem .’ Northern/Early Medieval Interdisciplinary Conference Series: ‘Prefiguring the Medieval World.’ University of York, 28-29th May 2016.

Presenter, ‘Classical Poetry & a Carolingian Problem: Ermoldus Nigellus (829) and His Adaptation of Exile Poetry in his Verse-Epistle Ad Pippinum Regnum,’ 147th SCS, San Francisco, CA, 6-9 January 2016.

Presenter: ‘‘I’m Not Like Everybody Else’: Fan Culture and the Kinks.’ PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, 2-5 April 2015.

Presenter: ‘My Name is of No Importance: The Kinks, Preservation, and 1970s Britain,’ (World of the Kinks and Beyond) IASPM UK and Ireland Biennial Conference 2014, ‘Worlds of Popular Music’ Cork, Ireland, 11-14 September 2014.

Presenter: “The Augustan Shaping of Imperial Education and Its Legacy in Ancient and Medieval Historians.” Commemorating Augustus: A Bimillennial Re-evaluation. University of Leeds, 18th-20th August 2014.

Presenter: ‘The Kinks, Punk and Preservation: Chaos and Identity in 1970s Britain,’ EuroPCA, London, 29-31 July 2014.

Presenter: ‘'Emperor as Educator: the Influence of Augustan Model of Education and Imperial Image on Medieval Biographies of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious,’ International Medieval Conference (Theme: ‘Empire’), Leeds, 7-10 July 2014 (proposal accepted).

Recent Public Talks:

Impact: Public Talk. ‘A Boy and his Mum: Agrippina & Nero.’ Southampton Classical Association. 5 February 2020.

Impact: Winchester History Weekend, BBC History Magazine, November 2019: Formidable Dames: The Women Behind, Beside, and Beyond the Emperor Nero. Sunday, 3 November 2019

Impact: Public Talk. ‘Hannibal and the Second Punic War,’ Portsmouth Branch of the Historical Association, 12 November 2019.

Impact: interview with Corky Siemaszko from NBC Digital for a piece being put together on the 50th anniversary of the release of ‘Lola’ by the Kinks. To be published later in 2020.

Impact: Interview: Interviewed by Christophe Conte on the Kinks for The Kinks, a documentary TV-Arte (to be transmitted sometime in 2020; to be screened at the Bordeaux Film Festival in April 2020).

Impact: Public Talk: ‘Hannibal and the Second Punic War,’ Historical Association of North West London and Hampstead. London, 21 February 2019.

Impact: Public Talk: ‘A Boy and His Mum: Agrippina & Nero,’ Historical Society of Guildford, West Sussex. 20 February 2018.

Impact: Public Talk/Roundtable participant – Book launch for Mad Dogs and Englishness, CPA Room, Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament, London, 5 February 2018.

Impact: Winchester History Weekend, ‘Royal Mothers and Ruling Children’, talk given with Ellie Woodacre. October 2017, University of Winchester.

Impact: Winchester History Weekend: Royal Mothers and Ruling Children – 60 second with Carey Fleiner http://www.historyweekend.com/winchester/article/royal-mothers-and-ruling-children-60-seconds-carey-fleiner. September 2017

Impact: Public Talk: ‘A Boy and His Mum: Agrippina & Nero,’ Historical Society of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, England, 9 May 2017.

Impact : Dept of History Blog, The Kinks book  /https://winchesterhistory.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/new-work-on-the-kinks-by-winchester-historian/

Impact: Radio Interview, Talk Radio Europe ‘The Daily with Dave Hodgson’ aired from 1625-1645. Discussion and promotion for The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon. 29 March 2017.

Impact: Public Talk: ‘A Boy and His Mum: Agrippina & Nero,’ Cambridge University Society of Essex, Chelmsford, England, 27 February 2016.

Impact: Public Talk: ‘A Boy and His Mum: Agrippina & the emperor Nero,’ History Society of the Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, England, 10 February 2016

Impact: Presenter: ‘The Character of Isabella of Angouleme in Novels and Film: A Medieval Queen in Modern Media,’ King John and Magna Carta Conference, History, Heritage, and Archaeology Programme, Strode College, Somerset, 28 March 2015.

Impact, Public Talk for the Essex Branch of the Historical Association: ‘A Boy and His Mum: The Relationship Between Agrippina & Nero,’ Chelmsford, England, 10 January 2015.

Presenter: ‘Women had their Uses for Augustus: Women in the Emperor's Family’, Winchester Branch of the Historical Association, Winchester, UK, 14 May 2014

Presenter: ‘Doctor Who and The Romans: The Emperor Nero and ‘60s Pop Culture,’ Winchester Undergraduate History Society, University of Winchester, 22 October 2013.

 HistoryHit Podcast with Tristan Hughes - promotion for A Writer's Guide to Ancient Rome, forthcoming 2020.

Interview with for Faith Ridler, post-grad journalism student at the University of Sheffield on the phenomenon of music in the 60s, and why it inspired so many to become so dedicated to the musicians of this era - and why some people are still engrossed in them today. July/August 2017.

Dept of History Blog, The Kinks book  /https://winchesterhistory.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/new-work-on-the-kinks-by-winchester-historian/

Impact: Radio Interview, Talk Radio Europe ‘The Daily with Dave Hodgson’ aired from 1625-1645. Discussion and promotion for The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon. 29 March 2017.

Consultation with the Winchester Embroiders Guild, November 2016. Guild members working on an embroidered tapestry of the history of Winchester contacted me about rendering some of their phrases into 12^th century Latin. Gave them advice (having conferred with Ryan Lavelle on the various medieval ways to say ‘Winchester’).

Blog entry – Doctor Who and History (https://doctorwhoandhistory.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/from-the-cutting-room-floor-neros-bits/) A short teaser for my chapter in the upcoming edited volume Doctor Who and History: A Cultural Perspective , C Fleiner, J Jordan, and D October, eds.,(McFarland, forthcoming 2017)

‘Famous Operation: Battle of Actium,’ for History of War Magazine. Senior editor Jack Griffith, July 2015.

‘The New Integrated Masters Degree in Classical Studies at the University of Winchester,’ CUCD Bulletin 43 (2014), 10 pages. https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/Classics/CUCD/bulletin.html#2014

Roman Architecture.’ How It Works online. http://www.howitworksdaily.com/roman-architecture/. 3 October 2014. Questions by and edited Jack Griffiths; text/answers written by me.

‘What Can We See Today That Reminds us of the Romans?’ How It Works online http://www.howitworksdaily.com/what-can-we-see-today-that-reminds-us-of-the-romans/ (30 September 2014. Questions by and edited Jack Griffiths; text/answers written by me.

Contributions to the EMI Group Archive Trust: Contributing writer to the Trust’s blog Sound of the Hound under the direction of David Holley.

‘Doctor Who  and the Ancient Romans. FBI-spy,  www.fbi-spy.com, 21 November 2013. http://www.fbi-spy.com/doctor-who-go-roman.

‘Doctor Who: Adventures in the BBC Archive,’ FBI-spy,  www.fbi-spy.com, 21 November 2013 http://www.fbi-spy.com/doctor-who-adventures-archives