Research interests
My work takes me across a number of different fields that intersect with an interest and research expertise in Holocaust studies and education, Post-war Britain, museums and public history, film and television studies, history, race and racism.
I am currently writing a monograph on the role and representation of Jews in post-war British television. This will use influential figures such as Ronald Waldman (head of Light Entertainment) and Rudolph Cartier (the celebrated producer and director) to explore the pivotal role played behind the scenes by Jews in the early days of BBC television and to argue that the BBC was culturally diverse in its staff and output. With that in mind, this research also considers the on-screen presence and representation of ‘the Jew’, Jewish culture and traditions, and Judaism across the same period, analysing the implications this has for the notion of a multicultural Britain. I am also working on a related project looking specifically at how the Holocaust has been reported, depicted and indeed imagined by BBC television from 1946 to 1979. Examples of the initial findings of these projects can be seen by going to the publications tab.
I welcome any and all enquiries on any of the above subjects and would be delighted to hear from anyone prospective PhD students wanting to work in a related area.
I am the co-editor of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, an interdisciplinary journal published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with the Parkes Institute which explores the history and memory of the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews and other Nazi genocides. The Journal is interested in publishing work on the Nazi genocides as historical and social phenomena, their origins and consequences, as well as issues of cultural representation and memorialisation through the investigation of film, literature, testimony and public rituals.
Visit the Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History website.
Dr James JordanFaculty of Arts and Humanities University of Southampton Avenue Campus Highfield Southampton SO17 1BF United Kingdom
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