Role
Dr Jenny Woodley is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History. She is the course leader for MA History and teaches on several modules on the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, including HIST306 Global Struggle for Civil and Human Rights. She is the co-lead of AIMS - Advancing Interdisciplinary Memory Studies at Nottingham Trent University.
Career overview
Jenny received her BA, MRes and PhD from the University of Nottingham. She taught at the universities of Warwick, Leicester, and Nottingham, before joining NTU in 2009.
Research areas
Dr Woodley’s research interests include US history, particularly African American history, and, more broadly, race and memory. She was the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her project Mourning at the Museum. Her monograph, Mourning Black: Interpreting Grief from Enslavement to BLM, is forthcoming with University of Georgia Press. Dr Woodley is interested in collective memory and contested commemoration, and she has written about these topics for academic and non-academic audiences. She published the first study of the Bethune Memorial in Washington D.C., a landmark sculpture to an African American woman on federal land, and she has written about Black commemorations of freedom. A British Academy/ Leverhulme small grant funded her project on mourning Black victims of lynching. Dr Woodley’s new research project considers belonging and identity at living history museums. She is the author of Art for Equality: The NAACP’s Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights (University Press Kentucky, 2014).
Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD exist in the areas of US History, African American History, Race and Memory. Further information may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School.
Publications
Recent publications
- Art for Equality: The NAACP's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights. Woodley J, 2014, University Press of Kentucky
- “Ma is in the park”: memory, identity, and the Bethune Memorial. Woodley, J. 2018. Journal of American Studies.
Press expertise
African American History; Commemoration; Race and Memory