Professor Sam Goodman
- Professor in English and Communication
- Weymouth House W322, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
After working in further education teaching and a brief stint in music journalism, I completed my MA in Twentieth Century Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2008 before moving to the University of Exeter to begin my PhD. After completing my PhD in 2012, I was an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter 2012-13. I joined BU as Lecturer in English & Communication in 2013.
My research interests are broadly based around Identity, Englishness, Empire, and popular culture in the C.20th, and I would be interested in supervising PhD projects on the following areas:
- Popular literatures and cultures
- Medical humanities
- Spatiality and spatial theory
- Cold War studies
- Video game narratives and digital humanities
- Contemporary fiction
- Historical fiction
- Modernism/Antimodernism/Postmodernism
Research background:
My doctoral research, and first monograph, examined the intersection of literature and culture throughout the Cold War through analysis of Britishness and decolonisation in the work of Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John le Carré... Alongside my research into popular cultures, I have developed a strong profile and publication history in medical humanities, mostly around examining the process of reciprocity and interdisciplinarity between medicine and the arts.
My most recent research project linked my interests in literatures of the Cold War and the post-war period of decolonisation with that of my medical humanities work through a study of colonial medicine and the Anglo-Indian novel c. 1950-1990 entitled: 'The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire'. The monograph was published with Edinburgh University Press in January 2022.
I am also a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker (2015-), and regularly contribute to BBC Radio 3 and 4. In 2017-19 I was PI on a project that explored the relationship between alcohol and medicine, supported by two Wellcome Trust Research Bursary awards.
I currently teach on the following units:
- Space, Place & Environment
- Media & Trauma
- Dissertation (UG/PG)
- Culture & Controversy
- Guest lecturer on: Making of Modern Britain (BA History)
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Current/past research Activity:
Coastal Communities, Coastal Stories - Heritage Lottery-funded project on history of Bournemouth, 2023-25.
- 'The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire' - monograph, Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- Co-I on 'Comics in the Time of COVID 19', AHRC/UKRI-funded research project, 2020-2022 (https://www.covidcomics.org).
- 'Colonial Consumption: Alcohol, Medicine & Society in British India', 2018-19, supported by a Wellcome Trust Research Bursary.
- Member of Literature & the Reading Public, University of Huddersfield, supported by the British Academy, 2018-19. (https://literatureandthereadingpublic.com).
- Imperial Measures: Alcohol, Medicine & Health in Colonial India. 2016-2017. Supported by a Wellcome Trust Research Bursary. (https://imperialmeasuresblog.wordpress.com/about/)
- BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker 2015-present, appearing on Free Thinking and The Essay (http://ow.ly/NvkzZ).
- Member of Durham Centre for Medical Humanities New Generations programme, funded by the AHRC and Wellcome Trust, 2014-15. (https://www.dur.ac.uk/cmh/newgenerations/).
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:
Good health and well-being
"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages"
Life on land
"Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss"
Peace, justice and strong institutions
"Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels"
