Dr Jennifer Good

Biography

Dr Jennifer Good is a writer and Senior Lecturer in the history and theory of photojournalism and documentary photography at London College of Communication. In addition to her teaching across BA and MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at LCC, and the supervision of postgraduate research students, she is Research Coordinator for the LCC School of Media. She is 2024 Visiting Researcher at Archivo Photography & Visual Culture Research Platform, and a member of the International Association of Visual Culture (IAVC). She was formerly a faculty member at the Foundation for International Education and a researcher at the UK Government Art Collection.

Her research is concerned with the photographic representation of conflict, specifically on psychological and psychoanalytical levels. Ideas around the perceived dichotomy between visual and textual modes of representation are also central, and a concern with the ways in which photography is written about in academic and other discourses underlies all her work. As well as photojournalism and documentary photography, she has also published work in the area of pedagogic research, with a particular interest in academic literacies and in the idea of ‘critical paralysis’.

She is the author of Photography and September 11th: Spectacle, Memory, Trauma (Bloomsbury, 2015) co-author of Understanding Photojournalism (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of Mythologizing the Vietnam War: Visual Culture and Mediated Memory (CSP, 2014). She writes regularly for photography publications and speaks internationally about her research at scholarly events and in the media, including recent interviews for BBC Radio 4, the The Economist and the British Journal of Photography.