Dr. Jonathan Stafford

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Projekt Archipelagische Imperative. Schiffbruch und Lebensrettung in europäischen Gesellschaften seit 1800

Zur Person / Vita

  • 2018-2021: Arts and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, Department of History
  • 2015-2018: Lecturer, Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
  • 2011-2013: Associate Lecturer, Humanities, Kingston University
  • 2011-2015: PhD, ‘A Maritime Modernity: The culture of global travel aboard the steamships of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company’, Kingston University
  • 2009-2011: MA Cultural and Critical Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London
  • 2002-2005: BA Hons Photography, Nottingham Trent University

Arbeitsschwerpunkte

  • Maritime Geschichte, Kultur und Theorie
  • Wissenschafts- und Technologiestudien
  • Mobilitäten in ihren kulturellen Kontexten
  • Die Epistemologie der Infrastruktur und der Logistik
  • Die Moderne und die natürliche Welt 

Publikationen

Monograph

  • Imperial steam: Modernity on the sea route to India, 1837–74 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023).

Edited Collection

  • (With H. Trüper & B. Wolf) Moral Seascapes: On the ethics and aesthetics of maritime emergency (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024).

Journal articles

  • ‘Spectacle and Sympathy in the Origin Narratives of Lifesaving at Sea’, Configurations, 32: 4 (2024), 375-98.
  • ‘Home on the Waves: Domesticity and Discomfort Aboard the Overland Route Steamship, 1842-1862’, Mobilities, 14 (2019), 578-595.
  • ‘A Sea View: Perceptions of Maritime Space and Landscape in Accounts of Nineteenth-Century Colonial Steamship Travel’, Journal of Historical Geography, 55 (2017), 69-81.

Book chapters

  • ‘Introduction’ and ‘Placing the Moral Spectator: Realism, perspective and affect in the visual culture of shipwreck’, in Stafford, J, Trüper, H and Wolf, B (eds.) Moral Seascapes: The ethics and aesthetics of seafaring in the modern era (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024).
  • ‘Breaking Open the Container: The Logistical Image and the Spectre of Maritime Labour’, in Van Gelder, H and Streitberger, A, (eds.) ‘Disassembled Images’: Allan Sekula and Contemporary Art (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019).

Forthcoming

  • ‘Ephemeral Visions: Representing Mobilities in the Steam Age’, in Steel, F (ed.) A Cultural History of Transport and Mobility: The Age of Steam (London: Bloomsbury, 2025).
  • (with Umbach, M), ‘Photographs, Jews, and Nazis: The Politics of a Visual Archive, historically and today’, in Ashkenazi, O, and Kaplan, T, (eds.) Jewish History and Memory through Photography (New York: SUNY Press, 2024).

Vorträge

  • ‘Democratising the Sublime: Spectacular danger and the rise of mass leisure by the sea’ at ‘Aquatic complexities: Tourism, aesthetics, and dis:connections’, Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, LMU München, 11-12 September 2024
  • ‘A Deluge of Sea Images: Exploring global crisis and contemporaneity’, at ‘Image deluge & globalization’, University of Geneva, 19-21 June 2024
  • ‘Of its Time? The sea image as crisis and contemporaneity’ at the seminar series of the Fachbereich Philosophie, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, 16 May 2024
  • ‘“Drowning is a very prosaic Arrangement”. Imperial Imaginaries in Nineteenth-Century Accounts of Shipwreck on the Steamship Voyage to India’ at Kolloquium zur Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts der Professuren für Transnationale Geschichte und für Zeitgeschichte der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 24 January 2024
  • ‘Placing the Moral Spectator: Realism, Perspective and Affect in the Visual Culture of Shipwreck’ at 'Moral Seascapes: Critical Perspectives', Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, 15-16 June 2023
  • ‘“With all the eloquence of ineffable woe”: Spectacle and sympathy in the origin myth of British coastal lifesaving’ at the University of Exeter Maritime History Seminar Series, 19 October 2022
  • ‘Representing Maritime Logistics: Allan Sekula's infrastructural image’ at 'Infrastructural Narratives', Birkbeck, University of London, 15 October 2022
  • ‘Representing technological change at Sea: J.M.W. Turner and the steamship "revolution"’ at ‘ European Sea Spaces and Histories of Knowledge’, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 22-23 June 2022
  • ‘The visual culture of shipwreck and the moral spectator’ at ‘Moral Seascapes. Modern Transformations of the Imagery of Shipwreck’, Universität Wien, 20-21 May 2022
  • ‘Maritime Art and the Shipwreck Spectator as Moral Subject’ at ‘The Cruel Sea: Death and the Sea - Historical Perspectives’, Universität Düsseldorf, 23 April 2021
  • ‘Slow Modernity: The culture of time in colonial steamship mobilities’ at ‘Encounters: the coincidence of space, time, and subjectivity’, University of Cambridge, 16-18 September 2019
  • ‘The Myth of Social Acceleration: Monotony and global mobilities’ at ‘Mobilities and Transformation: Understanding Societies, Economies, and Environments on the Move’, the University of Salzburg, 1-2 February 2019
  • ‘The Coastal Resort Town as a Counterculture of Modernity’ at the 17th International Conference of Historical Geographers, University of Warsaw, 15-20 July 2018
  • ‘Breaking Open the Container: The Logistical Image and the Spectre of Maritime Labour’ at ‘Disassembled Images: Contemporary Art After Allan Sekula’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, 2-4 March 2017
  • ‘Labour and the Sea: Capitalist Modes of Exploitation in the Nineteenth-Century Logistics Revolution’ at ‘The Arts of Logistics’, Queen Mary, University of London, 3-4 June 2016
  • ‘Writing the Ocean in the Age of Mechanical Propulsion’ at the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 12 January 2016

Lehre

Technische Universität Berlin - Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte

  • WiSe 2024-25: Writing the University

Akademie der Bildenden Künste München - Fachbereich Philosophie

  • WiSe 2024-25: Art and the Global: Navigating the world of images
  • SoSe 2024: The Contemporary Now: The artwork in troubled times

Humboldt Universität Berlin - Institut für Kulturwissenschaft

  • WiSe 2023-24: Imagining the Sea: Maritime cultures in a changing world