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Biography

James Mansell is Professor of Cultural History and Sound Studies in the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ where he has also held Associate Professor (2018-23) and Assistant Professor (2010-18) positions. He completed BA (Hons), MA, and PhD degrees in History at the University of Manchester. His research is on sound cultures, especially the preservation and interpretation of sounds from the past, and his teaching encompasses a wide variety of audio media and listening cultures. Since 2015, he has collaborated with the Science Museum Group on a wide-ranging programme of research examining the intersection of sound, music, museums, and the history of science and technology under the heading . He was Co-Investigator of the AHRC funded Science Museum projects and and Principal Investigator of the AHRC funded project .

Expertise Summary

James's research and teaching expertise are in sound studies. His research has focused on the cultural history of sound and hearing, sound media, and on histories of sonic modernity and modernism. In addition to research on the history of noise and everyday hearing he has worked on histories of 'occult' sound in relation to 'enchanted' modernist arts practices. He is currently working, among other things, on sound, museums and heritage. You can read about some of his work with the Science Museum and his work with the National Science and Media Museum .

Books

(University of Illinois Press, 2017). You can listen to a feature about the book on and a full author interview on the .

, co-edited with Sanne Krogh Groth (Sound Environment Centre, Lund University, 2021). You can watch a series of videos featuring the authors on the page of the Sound Environment Centre website and see new sound art videos connected to the book on the . Listen to a talk about the book at the .

, co-edited with Christopher Scheer and Sarah Victoria Turner (Fulgur, 2019). You can read a review on , an interview with the editors entitled ,and watch a delivered at the Gamble House, California.

, co-edited with Scott Anthony (BFI Books, 2011).

Exhibitions

, an exhibition at Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah, USA, 2014, with Christopher Scheer and Sarah Victoria Turner. You can also .

, an exhibition at the Borthwick Institute for Archives, York, UK, 2014, with Rachel Cowgill, Christopher Scheer and Sarah Victoria Turner.

Research Summary

Funded Research Projects

, AHRC Follow on Funding for Engagement and Impact, 2024-25

, AHRC Follow On Funding for Engagement and Impact, 2020-21

, ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ and Nottingham City Museums and Galleries, 2016-17

, AHRC Cultural Engagement Fund, 2016

, AHRC Network, 2014-15

, Leverhulme International Network, 2012-15

Recent Publications

• MEDIASTIKA, C., SUDARSONO, A., UTAMI, S., SETIAWAN, T., MANSELL, J. G., SANTOSA, R., WIRATAMA, A., YANTI, R. and CLIFFE, L., 2024. Built Heritage. 8,
• MANSELL, J. G., DE LITTLE, ALEX and JAMIESON, ANNIE, 2022. Science Museum Group Journal.
• CLIFFE, L., MANSELL, J. G., GREENHALGH, C. and HAZZARD. A., 2021. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 25, 623–636
• MANSELL, J. G., 2021. Music Research Annual. 2, 1-19

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James has supervised seven PhD theses and one MRes thesis to date on topics ranging from the history of TV in Britain to the commemoration of war dead in contemporary Britain to the use of amateur film in public history. He welcomes enquires from potential postgraduate research students working in any area of media and cultural studies, especially media and cultural history, sensory studies and sound studies.

• MEDIASTIKA, C., SUDARSONO, A., UTAMI, S., SETIAWAN, T., MANSELL, J. G., SANTOSA, R., WIRATAMA, A., YANTI, R. and CLIFFE, L., 2024. Built Heritage. 8,
• MANSELL, J. G., DE LITTLE, ALEX and JAMIESON, ANNIE, 2022. Science Museum Group Journal.
• CLIFFE, L., MANSELL, J. G., GREENHALGH, C. and HAZZARD. A., 2021. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 25, 623–636
• MANSELL, J. G., 2021. Music Research Annual. 2, 1-19
• GROTH, S. K. and MANSELL, J. G., eds., 2021. Lund University.
• MANSELL, J. G., 2021. . In: GROTH, S. K. and MANSELL, J. G., eds., Negotiating Noise Across Spaces, Places and Disciplines Lund University.
• MANSELL, J. G., 2020. . In: SNAITH, A., ed., Sound and Literature. Cambridge University Press. 154-169
• STAFFORD, J. and MANSELL, J. G., 2020. National Science and Media Museum.
• MANSELL, J. G., 2020. Oxford Bibliographies.
• MANSELL, J. G., 2020. . In: BULL, MICHAEL and COBUSSEN, MARCEL, eds., The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies Bloomsbury.
• SCHEER, C., TURNER, S. V. and MANSELL, J. G., eds., 2019. Fulgur.
• MANSELL, J.G., 2019. . In: SCHEER, C., TURNER, S. V. and MANSELL, J. G., eds., Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, Landscape and the American West. Fulgur.
• MANSELL, J.G. and STAWARSKA-BEAVAN, M., 2019. . In: SPEIGHT, E., ed., Practising Place: Creative and Critical Reflections on Place. Art Editions North. 104-117
• MANSELL, J.G., 2018. . In: BULL, MICHAEL, ed., The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies. Routledge. 343-352
• MANSELL, J. G., 2018. Journal of Urban History. 44(2), 341-348
• MANSELL, J. G., 2017. University of Illinois Press.
• MANSELL, J. G., 2017. Science Museum Group Journal. 7,
• BOON, T., JAMIESON, A., KANNENBERG, J., KOLKOWSKI, A. and MANSELL, J.G., 2017. Science Museum Group Journal. 8,
• KOLKOWSKI, A., MANSELL, J.G. and KANNENBERG, J., 2017. Science Museum.
• MANSELL, J. G., 2014. . In: MORAT, DANIEL, ed., Sounds of Modern History: Auditory Cultures in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe
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• SCOTT ANTHONY and JAMES G MANSELL, 2012. Twentieth Century British History. 23(1), 1-99
• SCOTT A. and MANSELL, J.G., eds., 2011. The projection of Britain: a history of the GPO Film Unit Palgrave MacMillan.
• MANSELL, J.G., 2011. Sound and the Cultural Politics of Time in the Avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis's Critique of Bergsonism. In: GASIOREK, A., REEVE-TUCKER, A. and WADDELL, N., eds., Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity Ashgate. 111-126
• JAMES G. MANSELL, 2011. . In: SCOTT ANTHONY and JAMES G. MANSELL, eds., The Projection of Britain: A History of the GPO Film Unit Palgrave Macmillan.
• JAMES G. MANSELL, 2009. . In: BROCKINGTON, G., ed., Internationalism and the Arts in Britain and Europe at the Fin de Siècle Peter Lang. 49-78
• MANSELL, JAMES G., 2009. Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture The Senses & Society. 4(2), 259-264
• MANSELL, J.G., 2009. The Historical Journal. 52(2), 433-454
• JAMES G. MANSELL, 2007. Luigi Russolo's Art of Noises The Senses & Society. 2(3), 391-395