Professor Sue Vice
School of English
Lecturer


+44 114 222 8475
Full contact details
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
- Profile
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More recently I have developed my enthusiasm for cinema-going into teaching film courses, and in 1993 I completed an MA in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.
I have been interested in representations of the Holocaust for many years, and have developed this into teaching at undergraduate and graduate level, as well as several books on Holocaust literature and film. Between 2007 and 2011, I was Head of the School of English.
- Research interests
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I am influenced by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and my research background is in the work of Malcolm Lowry. My publications in the field of literary theory include Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reader (1996) and Introducing Bakhtin (1997).
In relation to the Holocaust, I have written about such subjects as novels, in Holocaust Fiction (2000), children´s perspectives, Children Writing the Holocaust (2004), Claude Lanzmann’s classic film Shoah (a BFI Modern Film Classics volume in 2011), and, with Jenni Adams, have edited a volume entitled Representing Perpetrators in Holocaust Literature and Film (2013). book, Textual Deceptions (2014), is on the topic of false memoirs and literary hoaxes. My longstanding engagement with representation of memory has prompted my more recent investigation of the literature of memory-loss and dementia.
My interest in film and television archives led to my 2009 book Jack Rosenthal, and, with David Forrest, Barry Hines: ‘Kes’, ‘Threads’ and Beyond (2017). I have a British Academy Senior Fellowship (2019-20) to write a study of the outtake footage from Lanzmann’s documentary Shoah.
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
- Howard Jacobson’s J: A Novel and the Counterfactual Imagination. European Judaism, 55(2), 81-94.
- ‘Never forget’: fictionalising the Holocaust survivor with dementia. Medical Humanities, 46(2), 107-114. View this article in WRRO
- Memory thieves? Representing dementia in Holocaust literature. English Language Notes, 57(2), 114-126. View this article in WRRO
- Jews and Muslims in contemporary British fiction: Claire Hajaj’s Ishmael’s Oranges and Jemma Wayne’s Chains of Sand. Jewish Culture and History, 20(3), 220-233.
- ‘Beyond words’: representing the ‘Holocaust by bullets’. Holocaust Studies, 25(1-2), 88-100.
- British representations of the camps. Holocaust Studies, 22(2-3), 303-317.
- Inventing the eyewitness: Araki Yasusada and Jiri Kajanë. Textual Practice, 29(7), 1375-1394.
- Translating the self: False holocaust testimony. Translation and Literature, 23(2), 197-209.
- Exploring the Fictions of Perpetrator Suffering. Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, 2(1-2), 15-25.
- Generic hybridity in Holocaust cinema. Short Film Studies, 4(2), 199-202.
- ‘Becoming English’: assimilation and its discontents in contemporary British-Jewish literature. Jewish Culture and History, 14(2-3), 100-111.
- Shadows Walking. The European Legacy, 18(5), 678-680.
- Claude Lanzmann’s Einsatzgruppen Interviews. Holocaust Studies, 17(2-3), 51-74.
- Barry Hines' Unproduced Miners' Strike Plays: An Archival Study. J BRIT CINE TELEV, 8(2), 204-217.
- Journal of British Cinema and Television Volume 8.2 . 2011 Exploring Television Archives Introduction. J BRIT CINE TELEV, 8(2), 171-174.
- From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and after. Second‐Generation Holocaust Literature: legacies of survival and perpetration. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 9(1), 127-130.
- Holocaust testimony and poetry.
- Children’s Voices and Viewpoints in Holocaust Literature. Holocaust Studies, 11(2), 11-24.
- Trauma, Postmodernism and Descent: Contemporary Holocaust Criticism in Britain. Holocaust Studies, 11(1), 99-118.
- In memoriam: Bryan Burns (1945–2000). Immigrants & Minorities, 21(1-2), 1-9.
- Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments and Holocaust Envy: 'Why wasn't I there, too?'. Immigrants and Minorities, 21(1-2), 249-268.
- Holocaust testimony or ‘Soviet Epic’: Svetlana Alexievich’s polyphonic texts. Holocaust Studies, 1-19.
- “Non-sites of memory”. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media(21), 35-54.
- British Jewish Writing in the Post-2016 Era: Tom Stoppard, Linda Grant and Howard Jacobson. Humanities, 9(4), 116-116.
Chapters
- “The Four Brothers”: Claude Lanzmann’s War Refugee Board Interviews, The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture (pp. 311-331). Springer International Publishing
- British Holocaust Literature, The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust (pp. 281-300). Springer International Publishing
- View this article in WRRO
- Screening South Yorkshire: The Gamekeeper and Looks and Smiles In Mazierska E (Ed.), Heading North: The North of England in Film and Television (pp. 113-132). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Responding to the Holocaust, HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN'S WRITING, 1945-1975 (pp. 159-175).
- Grandma’s House and the Charms of the Petit Bourgeoisie, Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain (pp. 245-259). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Scandalous Fictions Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Research group
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I welcome applications from PhD students wishing to work in most areas of 20th and 21st century literature, theory and film, including Holocaust studies.