Doctor James Jordan

 I teach across English, Film and History with interests in

The BBC and the history of media and communications

The Holocaust 

Representation theory and cultural studies

Jewish/non-Jewish relations

Sexuality

Gender

'Race', and racism

Post-war Britain and Britishness

I came to Southampton in 1994 as an undergraduate having spent eight years working in finance. A BA English and History was followed by an MA in Jewish History and Culture and then a PhD titled Bearing Witness to the Holocaust in the Courtroom of American Fictive Film. 

In 2005-6 I worked as Teaching Fellow in Jewish Fictions and Modernism, then spent four years as the Ian Karten Fellow under the auspices of English and the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. I have since been Karten Lecturer and Karten Associae Professor in Jewish/non-Jewish Relations.

I am currently the Head of English, the co-editor of the journal Holocaust Studies and board member of the British Association for Holocaust Studies.