Professor Sue Vice

School of English

Lecturer

s.vice@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 8475

Jessop West

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Professor Sue Vice
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA

Profile

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

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

Books

Vice S (2021) Claude Lanzmann’s 'Shoah' Outtakes: Holocaust Rescue and Resistance. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Forrest D & Vice S (2017) Barry Hines: Kes, Threads and Beyond. Manchester University Press.
Vice S (2014) Textual Deceptions: False Memoirs and Literary Hoaxes in the Contemporary Era. Edinburgh University Press.
Adams J & vice S (2013) Representing Perpetrators in Holocaust Literature and Film. Vallentine Mitchell.
Vice S & Vice (2011) Shoah. British Film Institute.
Vice S, Vice & Vice (2009) Jack Rosenthal. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Vice S & Vice (2000) Holocaust fiction. London: Routledge.
Vice S (1997) Introducing Bakhtin. Manchester University Press.

Journal articles

Fenwick J, Foster K & Vice S (2024) Introduction: Unmade Holocaust Film. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 17(3), 247-253.
Vice S (2024) Stanley Kubrick's Quest for the Heroic: Turning Wartime Lies into Aryan Papers. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 17(3), 328-345.
Pettitt J & Vice S (2024) (Re-)Writing the Holocaust After Brexit: The Afterlives of British Fiction. The Journal of Holocaust Research, 38(2), 93-106.
Müller B & Vice S (2024) Jan Karski’s Representations – Representing Jan Karski: From Poland’s Secret Messenger to Holocaust Witness. The Journal of Holocaust Research, 38(1), 1-17.
Baker E-R, Holden M, Otosaka D, Vice S & Williams D (2023) Introduction: Spatial, Environmental, and Ecocritical Approaches to Holocaust Memory. Environment, Space, Place, 15(2), 1-13.
Vice S (2022) Howard Jacobson’s J: A Novel and the Counterfactual Imagination. European Judaism, 55(2), 81-94.
Vice S (2020) ‘Never forget’: fictionalising the Holocaust survivor with dementia. Medical Humanities, 46(2), 107-114. View this article in WRRO
Vice S (2019) Memory thieves? Representing dementia in Holocaust literature. English Language Notes, 57(2), 114-126. View this article in WRRO
Vice S (2019) 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.
Vice S (2019) ‘Beyond words’: representing the ‘Holocaust by bullets’. Holocaust Studies, 25(1-2), 88-100.
Vice S (2016) British representations of the camps. Holocaust Studies, 22(2-3), 303-317.
Vice S, Skinazi KEH, Kahn-Harris K & Solomons J (2016) Special issue reviews. Journal of European Popular Culture, 7(1), 73-83.
Vice S (2015) Inventing the eyewitness: Araki Yasusada and Jiri Kajanë. Textual Practice, 29(7), 1375-1394.
Vice S (2014) Translating the self: False holocaust testimony. Translation and Literature, 23(2), 197-209.
Vice S (2014) Exploring the Fictions of Perpetrator Suffering. Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, 2(1-2), 15-25.
Vice S (2014) Generic hybridity in Holocaust cinema. Short Film Studies, 4(2), 199-202.
Vice S (2013) ‘Becoming English’: assimilation and its discontents in contemporary British-Jewish literature. Jewish Culture and History, 14(2-3), 100-111.
Vice S (2013) Shadows Walking. The European Legacy, 18(5), 678-680.
Vice S (2011) Claude Lanzmann’s Einsatzgruppen Interviews. Holocaust Studies, 17(2-3), 51-74.
Vice S (2011) Barry Hines' Unproduced Miners' Strike Plays: An Archival Study. J BRIT CINE TELEV, 8(2), 204-217.
Vice S (2011) Journal of British Cinema and Television Volume 8.2 . 2011 Exploring Television Archives Introduction. J BRIT CINE TELEV, 8(2), 171-174.
Vice S (2010) 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.
Vice S (2009) Multiculturalism and the Jews. WASAFIRI, 24(1), 79-80.
Vice S (2008) Holocaust testimony and poetry.
Vice S (2005) Children’s Voices and Viewpoints in Holocaust Literature. Holocaust Studies, 11(2), 11-24.
Vice S (2005) Trauma, Postmodernism and Descent: Contemporary Holocaust Criticism in Britain. Holocaust Studies, 11(1), 99-118.
Vice S (2002) In memoriam: Bryan Burns (1945–2000). Immigrants & Minorities, 21(1-2), 1-9.
Vice S (2002) Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments and Holocaust Envy: 'Why wasn't I there, too?'. Immigrants and Minorities, 21(1-2), 249-268.
Vice S (1999) Intemperate climate: Drinking, sobriety, and the American literary myth. AM LIT HIST, 11(4), 699-709.
VICE S (1993) APPARENTLY INCONGRUOUS PARTS - THE WORLDS OF LOWRY,MALCOLM - TIESSEN,P. ESSAYS CAN WRIT(48), 105-110.
VICE S (1992) DIALOGISM - BAKHTIN AND HIS WORLD - HOLQUIST,M. NOTES QUERIES, 39(2), 255-256.
VICE S (1991) 'MEMORY AND DESIRE' - APPIGNANESI,L. TLS-TIMES LIT SUPPL(4607), 20-20.
VICE S (1991) POETRY, NARRATIVE, HISTORY - KERMODE,F. NOTES QUERIES, 38(2), 274-275.
VICE S (1991) CONTEMPORARY LITERARY-THEORY - ATKINS,GD, MORROW,L. NOTES QUERIES, 38(2), 278-279.
VICE S (1990) LOWRY,MALCOLM - BAREHAM,T. NOTES QUERIES, 37(2), 240-241.
VICE S (1990) PECULIAR LANGUAGE - LITERATURE AS DIFFERENCE FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO JOYCE,JAMES - ATTRIDGE,D. NOTES QUERIES, 37(1), 133-134.
VICE S (1990) LOWRY,MALCOLM 'UNDER THE VOLCANO' - A CASEBOOK - BOWKER,G. NOTES QUERIES, 37(1), 125-126.
Vice S () Rachel Seiffert’s A Boy in Winter (2017) and the Literary Construction of Ukraine. Eastern European Holocaust Studies, 0(0).
Vice S () Holocaust testimony or ‘Soviet Epic’: Svetlana Alexievich’s polyphonic texts. Holocaust Studies, 1-19.
Vice S () Claude Lanzmann’s The Four Sisters (2017) on Television. Race and European TV Histories, 10(20), 18-18.
Vice S & Williams D () “Non-sites of memory”. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media(21), 35-54.
Vice S () British Jewish Writing in the Post-2016 Era: Tom Stoppard, Linda Grant and Howard Jacobson. Humanities, 9(4), 116-116.

Chapters

Vice S (2024) Space in Holocaust Film, Space in Holocaust Research (pp. 119-130). De Gruyter
Vice S & Williams D (2024) Domestic Space in the Films of Chantal Akerman and Claude Lanzmann, Space in Holocaust Research (pp. 177-194). De Gruyter
Vice S (2023) Annie Hall as a memory-film, Remembering Annie Hall (pp. 77-94).
Vice S (2023) Complicity versus cooperation: Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and its outtakes, Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond: Compromised Identities? (pp. 219-234).
Hirsekorn U & Vice S (2023) Perpetrator Testimony, The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture (pp. 567-595). Springer International Publishing
Vice S (2021) “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
Vice S (2021) British-Jewish Television Drama: Jack Rosenthal to the Present, A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre since the 1950s (pp. 187-200).
Vice S (2020) Trauma in holocaust literature, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma (pp. 363-373).
Vice S & Forrest D (2020) Kes: from page to screen In Mayne L, Petrie D & Williams M (Ed.), Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered Edinburgh University Press
Vice S (2020) British Holocaust Literature, The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust (pp. 281-300). Springer International Publishing
Vice S (2020) Representing jewishness and antisemitism in arnold wesker’s work: Shylock, badenheim 1939 and blood libel, Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions (pp. 133-153).
Vice S (2020) Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and its shadow: Rescue and resistance, Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films (pp. 199-214).
Vice S (2019) From Special Operations Executive to Sonderkommando: Sebastian Faulks and the Anxiety of Influence In Chare N & Williams D (Ed.), Testimonies of Resistance: Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando (pp. 230-246). New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. View this article in WRRO
Forrest D & Vice S (2017) 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.
Vice S (2017) Witnessing complicity in English and French: Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key and Elle s'appelait Sarah In Boase-Beier J, Davies P, Hammel A & Winters M (Ed.), Translating Holocaust Lives Bloomsbury Academic
Vice S (2017) Responding to the Holocaust, HISTORY OF BRITISH WOMEN'S WRITING, 1945-1975 (pp. 159-175).
Vice S (2017) Grandma’s House and the Charms of the Petit Bourgeoisie, Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain (pp. 245-259). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Forrest D & Vice S (2016) Archival Traces of the North in Barry Hines' Looks and Smiles (1981) and Threads (1984) In Dobson J & Rayner J (Ed.), Mapping Cinematic Norths (pp. 17-45). Oxford: Peter Lang.
Vice S (2016) The Nazis in Britain Representations of the Wartime Occupation of the Channel Islands, LONG SHADOWS: THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN BRITISH FICTION AND FILM (pp. 263-285).
Vice S (2016) Christmas Trees and Hanukkah Bushes The "Emancipation Contract" in the Contemporary British Television Dramas Hebburn and Friday Night Dinner, HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: JEWS AND JEWISHNESS IN BRITISH FILM, TELEVISION, AND POPULAR CULTURE (pp. 227-251).
Forrest D & Vice S (2015) A Poetics of the North: Visual and Literary Geographies, REGIONAL AESTHETICS: MAPPING UK MEDIA CULTURES (pp. 55-67).
Vice S (2015) Class as destiny in the short stories of tessa hadley, British Women Short Story Writers (pp. 148-162).
Vice S (2015) British Jewish holocaust fiction, The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction (pp. 267-278).
Vice S (2014) “Almost an Englishwoman”: Jewish women refugee writers in Britain, Jewish Women Writers in Britain (pp. 97-115).
Vice S (2014) Questions of Truth in Holocaust Memory and Testimony, The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature (pp. 47-63).
Vice S (2013) Universalism and symbolism in holocaust fiction, Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics (pp. 34-48).
Vice S (2013) 'Literature of the Camps in the Second World War', The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Vice S (2013) 'Fascination et malaise: La réception du Sang du ciel au Royaume-Uni et aux États Unis', Un ciel de sang et de cendres: Piotr Rawicz et la solitude du témoin Paris: Kimé.
Vice S (2012) 'Claude Lanzmann's Einsatzgruppen Interviews', Representing Perpetrators in Holocaust Literature and Film In Adams J (Ed.), Representing Perpetrators in Holocaust Literature and Film (pp. 47-68). Vallentine Mitchell
Vice S (2012) Literature of the camps in the second world war, The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature (pp. 439-447).
Vice S (2010) False testimony, The Future of Memory (pp. 155-163).
Vice S (2010) 'False Testimony', The Future of Memory In Crownshaw R, Kilby JE & Rowland A (Ed.), The Future of Memory
Vice S & Bodger G (2007) Issues Arising from Teaching Holocaust Film and Literature, TEACHING HOLOCAUST LITERATURE AND FILM (pp. 15-27).
(2007) Scandalous Fictions Palgrave Macmillan UK
Forrest D & Vice S () Threads (1984) and the Gothic In Hubner L & Whittall A (Ed.), Atomic Horror: Fears of Nuclear Power in Gothic Literature, Film and Media Palgrave Macmillan

Research group: I welcome applications from PhD students wishing to work in most areas of 20th and 21st century literature, theory and film, including Holocaust studies.