Jane Chapman

Chapman has a bachelor's degree in history from University College London, and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Politics

Chapman was elected to Haringey Borough Council in 1974, alongside future Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and became chairman of the housing committee. She stood as the Labour candidate in two general elections, in 1974 in Dorking, and in 1979 in Dover and Deal.

Chapman married the future Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in 1974, when she was 24 and he was 25. The marriage ended in 1979.

Chapman has two adult sons, and is married to a retired film editor and producer.

Books

• Forthcoming in 2015: Comics and the World Wars – a Cultural Record (a monograph), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK
• Forthcoming in 2015: Chapman, Jane L., Ellin, D and Sherif, A. Comics, Hiroshima and the Holocaust (a mini-monograph), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK
• Chapman, Jane (2013) Gender, citizenship and newspapers: historical and transnational perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230232440 Nominated for US Best Book of Year, AJHA/AEJMC.
• King, Elliot and Chapman, Jane L. (2012) Key readings in journalism. Routledge, New York London. ISBN 9780415880275
• Chapman, Jane and Nuttall, Nick (2011) Journalism today: a themed history. Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA. ISBN 9781405179539
• Chapman, Jane (2009) Issues in contemporary documentary. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780745640105
• Chapman, Jane and Kinsey, Marie (2008) Broadcast journalism: a critical introduction. Routledge, London. ISBN 203886453
• Chapman, Jane (2007) Documentary in practice: filmmakers and production choices. Polity, Cambridge. ISBN 745636128
• Chapman, Jane (2005) Comparative media history, an introduction: 1789 to the present. Polity, Cambridge. ISBN 745632424- Nominated for US Best Book of the Year, AJHA / AEJMC
• Chapman, Jane (1990) Women working it out [2nd ed.]. Careers & Occupational Information Centre, Sheffield, HMSO. ISBN 861105524
• Chapman, Jane (1988) Women working it out [1st ed.]. Careers & Occupational Information Centre, Sheffield, HMSO. ISBN 8611046681989

Book sections

• Chapman, Jane (2014) Comic strip representation of female wartime bravery in Australia's Wanda the War Girl and Jane at War from the UK . In: Fashion and war in popular culture . Intellect Publishing, Bristol. ISBN 9781841507514
• Chapman, Jane (2014) The essential Gandhi as literary journalism in Hind Swaraj. In: Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journalistic Imagination. Peter Lang.
• Chapman, Jane (2012) From India's big dams to jungle guerillas: Arundhati Roy and the literary polemics of global versus local . In: Global literary journalism: exploring the journalistic imagination. Peter Lang, New York. ISBN 9781433118678
• Chapman, Jane (2011) Female representation in Le Petit Journal, Europe's first mass circulation daily. In: Parcours de femmes: Twenty Years of Women in French. Peter Lang. ISBN 9783034302081
• Chapman, Jane (2010) De-bunking feminisation claims and Northcliffe propaganda - Le Petit Journal and The Daily Mail, 19th century popular press and women. In: Media History. Sage.
• Chapman, Jane (2010) Assessing the female influence in Europe's first mass circulation daily newspaper. In: Modern and Contemporary France. Taylor and Francis.
• Chapman, Jane (2008) Republican Citizenship and the French Revolutionary Press. In: Communications Ethics Now. Richard Keeble, Troubadour.
• Chapman, Jane (2007) The personal is the political: George Sand's contribution to popular journalism. In: The journalistic imagination: literary journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9780415417235

Articles

• Chapman, Jane and Ellin, Dan (2014) Dominion Cartoon Satire as Trench Culture Narratives: Complaints, Endurance and Stoicism. Round Table (Journal of the Royal Commonwealth Society), vol. 103.2, pp. 175-192
• Tulloch, John and Chapman, Jane (2013) An outlaw editor in the endgame of the Indian empire. Media History, 19 (1). pp. 17-31. ISSN 1368-8804
• Chapman, Jane and Ellin, Daniel (2012) Multi-panel comic narratives in Australian first world war trench publications as citizen journalism. Australian Journal of Communication, 39 (3). pp. 1-22. ISSN 0811-6202
• Chapman, Jane (2011) Female representation, readership, and early tabloid properties . Australian Journal of Communication, 38 (2). ISSN 0811-6202
• Chapman, Jane (2011) Representation of female war-time bravery in Australia's Wanda the War Girl. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 1 (2). pp. 153-163. ISSN 2045-5852
• Chapman, Jane and Allison, Kate (2011) Women and the press in British India, 1928-34: a window for protest?. International Journal of Social Economics, 38 (8). pp. 676-692. ISSN 0306-8293 – Winner of publisher Best Article of the Year prize.
• Chapman, Jane (2011) Counter hegemony, newspapers and the origins of anti-colonialism in French India . International Journal of Social Economics, 38 (2). pp. 128-139. ISSN 0306-8293
• Chapman, Jane (2010) The origins of a public voice for marginalised workers in French India, 1935-37. Web Journal of French Media Studies (WJFMS), 8. ISSN 1460-6550
• Chapman, Jane (2009) Hegemony and counter hegemony in communication history [Guest editorial of special issue on]. International Journal of Communication, 19 (1). pp. 5-8.
• Chapman, Jane and King, Elliot (2009) A 'dozen best' essential readings in journalism. American Journalism, 26 (3). pp. 168-183. ISSN 0882-1127
• Chapman, Jane (2009) Introduction to 'Counter Currents in Journalism History' as guest editor of special edition of International Journal of Communication, vol. 1, January-June (Bahri Publications, New Delhi)
• Chapman, Jane (2007) India's Narmada dams controversy: interdisciplinary examples of global media advocacy. The Journal of International Communication, 13 (1). pp. 71-85. ISSN 1321-6597
• Chapman, Jane (2007) George Sand: thwarted newspaper publisher or pioneer literary journalist. Modern and Contemporary France, 15 (4). pp. 479-495. ISSN 0963-9489
• Chapman, Jane (2007) Arundhati Roy and the Narmada Dams controversy : development journalism and the 'new international public sphere' ?. International Journal of Communication, 17 (2). pp. 21-39.
• Chapman, Jane (2006) Reflections on 15 years of activist media and India's Narmada Dams controversy. International Journal of Communication, 16 (1-2). pp. 21-39.
• Chapman, Jane (2006) George Sand: journaliste litteraire, www.republique-des-lettres.fr
• Chapman, Jane (2006) La citoyenneté républicaine, l'éthique et la presse sous la Révolution française 1789-92, www.republique-des-lettres.fr
• Chapman, Jane (2005) Republican citizenship, ethics and the French revolutionary press 1789-92. Ethical Space: the International Journal of Communication Ethics, 2 (1). pp. 7-12. ISSN 1742-0105