Julie Taddeo

Julie Taddeo is the author of Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity (2002) and co-author of Rape in Period Drama Television: Consent, Myth, and Fantasy (2022) and several articles on British modernism, sexuality, and twentieth century popular culture. Her edited collections include Writing Australian History On-screen: Televisions and Film Period Dramas "Down Under" (2023); Diagnosing History:  Medicine in Television Period Drama (2022); Conflicting Masculinities: Men in Television Period Drama (2019); Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey (2014); Catherine Cookson Country: On the Borders of Legitimacy, Fiction, and History (2012); The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV & History (2009);  and Steaming into A Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology (2012). She has edited a special issue on "Bridgerton" for the Journal of Popular Television (2023) and her current project is an examination of the history of the National Health Service on British Television. She has been interviewed by international news outlets including the BBC and the New York Times and featured in Maryland Today multiple times. Julie is the resident area expert on the Royal family.  She also gives public lectures on British history from the Georgians through the twentieth century and uses British popular culture like period drama  television to reach audiences beyond the university. One of her interviews on Royal weddings is here.

Her courses specialize in Victorian cultural and social history; Twentieth Century British history taught through the lens of popular culture; Modern British surveys; the History of Britain at War; Victorian Scandal and Crime; and The History of Women in Modern Britain.

Julie Taddeo also serves as Director of the Department of History Undergraduate Internship Program and Faculty Adviser to the History Undergraduate Association (HUA). She is the 2023 recipient of the Provost’s Excellence Award for Research for Professional Track Faculty.