Sara Jones is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. Her current research analyses the political, social and cultural processes of remembering state socialist dictatorship.

Professor Jones is Deputy Director of Research/Impact and Engagement Lead for the College of Arts and Law. She has previously been Head of Postgraduate Research (2021-2023) and Deputy Head of Research/Impact Lead (2018-2021) for the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music, and Research Lead for the Department of Modern Languages (2020-2021).

She is a member of the editorial board for Forum for Modern Language Studies, Memory Studies Review, and the Journal of Perpetrator Research. Sara’s core interests lie in the broad field of Memory Studies. She explores how societies remember and reconstruct their pasts as a cultural, social and political process. She has examined, in particular, first-person accounts in different (artistic) media, interview methodologies, transnational networks, and memory in migration. Her focus is on memories of twentieth-century dictatorships in the Europe’s East and their impact on the present.

Email: s.jones.1@bham.ac.uk