Jane Chapman, BA ( Lond.), PGCE (Cantab.) PhD (Lond.)

Position:
Professor of Communications

Faculty and School Responsibilities:
Development of international strategy; initiating and managing funded research projects.

Teaching

Jane supervises research degree students in the fields of the journalism and communications history, including visual history such as political cartoons and also community radio and welcomes new applicants. She has external PhD examining experience and previous supervisory experience of research students in documentary and gender studies and also the history on television. Jane has extensive experience of teaching and writing about broadcast journalism, based on a 14 year career in television, radio and multimedia. Her textbook on broadcast journalism (see below) has recently been translated into Arabic and is recognised worldwide. She is employed regularly as a consultant trainer of university teachers internationally by the EU and the BBC World Service, and has published research internationally on the integration of theory and practice within journalism education. Jane is also co-author with LSJ’s Nick Nuttall of a forthcoming journalism history book, Journalism Today - A Themed History (Blackwell-Wiley, USA , 2010, ISBN: HB:9781405179539 PB: 9781405179522) and the best selling Comparative Media History. Previously Jane ran MA courses in both journalism and documentary at LCC (University of the Arts, London) and has been employed on an occasional basis by Birkbeck College (University of London), City University and the EU’s EAVE media training scheme for professionals.

Research

Jane is a visiting Fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge and the Cambridge University Centre of South Asian Studies,is a visiting fellow at University College, Dublin and a Visiting Professor at Macquarie University (Australia) - both Centres for Media History.

She trained as a French economic history, and now specialises in comparative and interdisciplinary studies relating to past communications, especially:

• press, women, & nationalist movements in French/British colonial India.
• female representation and the origins of mass circulation press in France & UK
• the journalism of advocacy and development protest In India
• 1940s and 50s comics as a cultural record

Jane is trained in research leadership (Leadership Foundation for HE ),a member of ESRC peer review college, is PI for the ESRC fundedl research project 'Women, Press and Protest in British & French India', and has previously received British Academy research funding.

Publications
Jane is widely published internationally.

Forthcoming

2012: Gender, Citizenship, and the Media: Historical & Trans-national Perspectives (Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke)
2011: 'Female Representation in Le Petit Journal, Europe's First Mass Circulation Daily'. Chapter in 'Parcours de femmes -Twenty Years of Women in French' (Peter Lang, Oxford & Bern, ISBN 978-3-0343-0208-1)
2011: Journalism Today: A Themed History (Blackwell-Wiley, USA), co-author Nick Nuttall, Lincoln University (UK)
2010/11: Key Readings in Journalism, (Routledge, USA), co-author Elliot King, Loyola University, Baltimore, USA
2011: ‘Women and the press in British India 1928-34: a window for protest?’ International Journal of Social Economics (IJSE), vol. 38, no 8 (July), co-author Kate Allison 2011): ‘Women and the origins of mass circulation: virtuous, victorious, or victims and vicious? Australian Journal of Communication, vol. 38, no.2. Single author.
2012: ‘F.W.Wilson: Renegade Colonial Newspaper Editor or Indian Nationalist Hero?’ Media History, vol.38, August , co-author John Tulloch

Previous publications

2011: 'Counter-hegemony, newspapers and the origins of anti-colonialism in French India', International Journal of Social Economics, Jan., vol 38, issue1/2 (Emerald), single author
2009: Introduction to 'Hegemony and Counter - Hegemony in Communications History' , guest editor of special edition of International Journal of Communication, vol. 19, no.1, Jan-June (Bahri Publications, New Delhi)
2009 King, Elliot and Chapman, Jane "A Dozen Best: Essential Readings in Journalism" American Journalism Vol 26, No 3, Summer, pp. 168-182.
2007:'George Sand -Thwarted Newspaper Publisher or Pioneer Literary Journalist?' Modern & Contemporary France, Vol. 15, No.4, November, pp. 479 - 495, single author
2007: 'Arundhati Roy and the Narmada Dams controversy: development journalism and the 'new international public sphere', International Journal of Communication (IJC), vol.17 (2) June-Dec., New Delhi, India, single author
2007: 'India's Narmada Dams Controversy: Interdisciplinary Examples of Global Media Advocacy ' Journal of International Communication (JIC), vol.13 (1), April/May, pp.71-90 ( Sage), single author
2006: 'Reflections on 15 years of Activist Media and India's Narmada Dams Controversy' International Journal of Communication - (IJC) New Delhi, India),16 (2) Sept- Dec. single author
2006 : 'George Sand : journaliste litteraire ', www.republique-des- lettres.fr single author
2006 : 'La citoyenneté républicaine, l'éthique et la presse sous la Révolution
française 1789-92', www.republique-des- lettres.fr single author
2005: 'Republican Citizenship & the French Revolutionary Press 1789-92: an exploration of pre- Modernity journalism ethics' Ethical Space (2005, vol.2, Feb., Leicester) single author

Books

2009: Issues in Contemporary Documentary (Cambridge, Polity Press), single author.
2008: Broadcast Journalism: a Critical Introduction, ed. Chapman & Kinsey (London, Routledge)
2007: Documentary in Practice (Cambridge, Polity Press 2007), single author
2005: Comparative Media History: 1789 to the present (Cambridge, Polity Press), single author
2008: Communication Ethics Now, ed. Keeble, Richard, Single author chapter 'Republican Citizenship & the French Revolutionary Press ', (Troubadour)
2007:The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalism: from Daniel Defoe to Angela Carter, ed. Keeble & Walker (London, Routledge),chapter on Sand,

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