School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

My current research relates to the Holocaust and its representation in visual culture. I am interested in the continuing spectatorial fascination with images of the Holocaust, whether archival or recreated. My work critically interrogates the Holocaust ‘gaze’, and challenges the culture of voyeurism and consumption that is too often associated with Holocaust ‘memory’.  Past publications have addressed the centrality of Zygmunt Bauman’s writing to contemporary social theory and Bauman’s unique perspective on the Holocaust.

Current Research

Books^{[Back to top]}

Wood, S. (In preparation). Resnais’ Night and Fog. BFI.

Wood., S. (In preparation). The Holocaust as spectacle in visual culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wood, S. & Hall, N. (In preparation). Genocide and hate crimes. Uffculme: Willan Publishing.

Publications^{[Back to top]}

Publications since 2008 [IR]

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Jacobsen, M., Marshman, S. & Tester, K. (2007). Bauman beyond postmodernity: critical appraisals, conversations and annotated bibliography 1989-2005. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press. ISBN 978-8773077832.

Articles^{[Back to top]}

Marshman, S. (2008). Anne Frank’s diary is not a fit subject for a musical. The Guardian, 23rd January.

Jacobsen, M. & Marshman, S. (2007). The metaphorical imagination: Zygmunt Bauman’s poetics of the transformation of modernity. Sociologisk Arbok, 1-2-07, 103-145.

Jacobsen, M. & Marshman, S. (2006). Metaphorically speaking: metaphors as a methodological and moral signifier of the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman. Polish Sociological Review, 155, 307-325.

Book Chapters^{[Back to top]}

Wood, S. (Forthcoming). The Holocaust and utopia: nostalgia and amnesia. In M. Jacobsen (Ed.), Utopia and social theory (pp. 00-00). Aldershot: Ashgate Press.

Wood, S. (Forthcoming). The Holocaust as spectacle: the visual memory of atrocity. In T. Crowder & K. Wilson (Eds.), The film and genocide anthology (pp. 00-00). Wayne State University Press.

Professional Memberships^{[Back to top]}

I am a Visiting Fellow of the Parkes Institute for Jewish-Non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton.