• Cultural Memory
• Transcultural and Transnational Studies
• Heritage, Tourism and Cultural Diplomacy
• The Environment and Cultural Change

Jessica Rapson’s interdisciplinary research concerns the mediation and production of memory in culture, with a particular focus on the role of landscape, literature and the heritage sector. She has published widely on memory and commemorative landscapes. In addition to presenting her work in the UK, Europe, the United States, Brazil and Canada, she has co-organised several conferences and seminars, including Transcultural Memory (for the inauguration of the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Modern Language Research, London 2010), Education and Memory (IGRS, 2012) Memory and Restitution (American Comparative Literature Association, Toronto, and University of Westminster, 2013). She is currently working on the collaborative research project The Natural History of Memory, funded by the University of Westminster, Ghent University and Maastricht University, which examines inscriptions of capitalism, violence and atrocity on landscape. Under the auspices of this project she is currently writing new material on tourism and representation of race at slave plantations in the American South.