Research

Research Interests

Feminist and Gender Theory; Wartime Sexual Violence; Critical War Studies; International Political Theory; Pop Cultural International Relations; Public International Relations.

Doctoral Supervision

I would be happy to consider PhD applications in any of the above fields, provided that they relate to global politics, broadly conceived.

Publications (Peer-Reviewed Articles)

• Kirby, Paul (2017) 'Political Speech in Fantastical Worlds', International Studies Review, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 573-596.
• Kirby, Paul and Laura Shepherd (2016) 'The Futures Past of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda', International Affairs, Vol. 92, No. 2, pp. 373-392.
• Kirby, Paul (2015) 'Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict: The Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative and Its Critics', International Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 457-472.
• Kirby, Paul (2013) 'How is Rape a Weapon of War?: Feminist International Relations, Modes of Critical Explanation and the Study of Wartime Sexual Violence', European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 797-821.
• Kirby, Paul (2013) 'Refusing To Be A Man?: Men's Responsibility for War Rape and the Problem of Social Structures in Feminist and Gender Theory', Men and Masculinities, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 93-114. 

Publications (Forum and Other Contributions)

• (with Jesse Crane-Seeber) (2016) 'The Feminist Manel: Notes Towards an Ambiguous Utopia', International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 485-488.
• Kirby, Paul and Laura Shepherd (2016) 'Re-Introducing Women, Peace and Security', International Affairs, Vol. 92, No. 2, pp. 249-254.
• Kirby, Paul (2015) 'Acting Time; Or, The Abolitionist and the Feminist', International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 508-513.
• Kirby, Paul (2013) 'The Unapologetic Schoolmaster', Critical Studies on Security, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 349-351.
• Kirby, Paul and Marsha Henry (2012) 'Rethinking Masculinity and Practices of Violence in Conflict Settings', International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 445-449.
• Kirby, Paul (2011) 'Damage, Unincorporated: War Studies in the Shadow of the Information Bomb', Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 335-345.
• Kirby, Paul (2010) 'That Obscured Subject of Violence' (on Slavoj Zizek's Violence: Six Sideways Reflections), Subjectivity, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 117-121.

Publications (Book Chapters)

• Kirby, Paul (2018) 'Wartime Sexual Violence', in Caron E. Gentry, Laura J. Shepherd and Laura Sjoberg (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security (Abingdon: Routledge), forthcoming.
• Kirby, Paul (2018) 'Homo Interruptus', in Marysia Zalewski and Paula Drumond (eds.) Sexual Violence Against Men and Boys in Global Politics (Abingdon: Routledge).
• Kirby, Paul (2016) 'Gender', in John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics (Oxford University Press, 7th edition).
• Kirby, Paul (2016) 'Auto/Bio/Graph', in Naeem Inayatullah and Elizabeth Dauphinee (eds.) Autobiographical International Relations II (Routledge).
• Kirby, Paul (2016) 'Masculinities' in Jill Steans and Daniela Tepe (eds.) Handbook of Gender in International Relations (Edward Elgar).