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Dr Matthew Boswell
Teams and roles for Matthew Boswell
Senior Research Fellow | Media Cymru Programme Manager
Overview
Matthew is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for the Creative Economy and the Media Cymru Programme Manager. He has extensive experience of developing and managing collaborative projects involving universities and the creative and cultural industries to deliver transformative social and economic impacts. As the Media Cymru Programme Manager, Matthew has overall responsibility for the day-to-day management and operations of a 22-partner consortium of film and television companies, broadcasters, public bodies, development agencies, and Higher Education Institutions, delivering a research and innovation programme which has a total value of over £54m.
Matthew's current research explores how the film and television sectors are responding to the global climate crisis. This research is closely linked to a portfolio of research and development projects funded by Media Cymru and the programme's commitment to creating a green and fair media sector.
Matthew has also published widely on the cultural representation of the Holocaust and other episodes of historical violence. He has a particular interest in the relationship between digital technologies and historical memory. The research for his latest book, Virtual Holocaust Memory (Oxford University Press, 2023), was supported by an AHRC Leadership Fellowship and an AHRC project called Virtual Holocaust Memoryscapes that involved a partnership with the Bergen-Belsen and Neuengamme Memorial Sites and the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
Publication
2024
- Fodor, M. et al. 2024. The Cardiff Capital Region and West of England Creative Supercluster: Scoping Study. Project Report.Cardiff: Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University.
2023
- Boswell, M. and Rowland, A. 2023. Virtual Holocaust memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (10.1093/oso/9780197645390.001.0001)
2017
- Boswell, M. 2017. Holocaust literature. [Online].Oxford Bibliographies Online. (10.1093/obo/9780190221911-0009)Available at: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780190221911/obo-9780190221911-0009.xml.
- Boswell, M. 2017. Reading genocide memorial sites in Rwanda: eurocentrism, sensory secondary witnessing and shame. Mémoires en jeu 3 , pp.80-87.
2014
- Boswell, M. 2014. Beyond autobiography: Hybrid testimony and the art of witness. In: Rowland, A. and Kilby, J. eds. The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. London and New York: Routledge. , pp.144-59. (10.4324/9780203743836-11)
- Boswell, M. 2014. Holocaust literature and the taboo. In: Adams, J. ed. The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature. London: Bloomsbury. , pp.179-197. (10.5040/9781472593801.ch-009)
2012
- Boswell, M. 2012. Holocaust impiety in literature, popular music and film. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1057/9780230358690)
2011
- Boswell, M. 2011. Downfall: the Nazi genocide as a natural disaster. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History' 17 (2-3), pp.165-184. (10.1080/17504902.2011.11087278)
2010
- Boswell, M. 2010. Reading Holocaust poetry: Genre, authority and identification. In: Crownshaw, R. , Kilby, J. and Rowland, A. eds. The Future of Memory. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. , pp.165-177. (10.1515/9781845458478-014)
2008
- Boswell, M. 2008. 'Black phones': postmodern poetics in the Holocaust poetry of Sylvia Plath. Critical Survey 20 (2), pp.53-64. (10.3167/cs.2008.200206)
2007
- Boswell, M. 2007. 'The Black Book': John Berryman's Holocaust requiem. In: Coleman, P. and McGowan, P. eds. 'After Thirty Falls': New Essays on John Berryman. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. , pp.11-27. (10.1163/9789401204521_003)
Articles
- Boswell, M. 2008. 'Black phones': postmodern poetics in the Holocaust poetry of Sylvia Plath. Critical Survey 20 (2), pp.53-64. (10.3167/cs.2008.200206)
- Boswell, M. 2011. Downfall: the Nazi genocide as a natural disaster. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History' 17 (2-3), pp.165-184. (10.1080/17504902.2011.11087278)
- Boswell, M. 2017. Reading genocide memorial sites in Rwanda: eurocentrism, sensory secondary witnessing and shame. Mémoires en jeu 3 , pp.80-87.
Book sections
- Boswell, M. 2014. Beyond autobiography: Hybrid testimony and the art of witness. In: Rowland, A. and Kilby, J. eds. The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. London and New York: Routledge. , pp.144-59. (10.4324/9780203743836-11)
- Boswell, M. 2014. Holocaust literature and the taboo. In: Adams, J. ed. The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature. London: Bloomsbury. , pp.179-197. (10.5040/9781472593801.ch-009)
- Boswell, M. 2010. Reading Holocaust poetry: Genre, authority and identification. In: Crownshaw, R. , Kilby, J. and Rowland, A. eds. The Future of Memory. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. , pp.165-177. (10.1515/9781845458478-014)
- Boswell, M. 2007. 'The Black Book': John Berryman's Holocaust requiem. In: Coleman, P. and McGowan, P. eds. 'After Thirty Falls': New Essays on John Berryman. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. , pp.11-27. (10.1163/9789401204521_003)
Books
- Boswell, M. 2012. Holocaust impiety in literature, popular music and film. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1057/9780230358690)
- Boswell, M. and Rowland, A. 2023. Virtual Holocaust memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (10.1093/oso/9780197645390.001.0001)
Monographs
- Fodor, M. et al. 2024. The Cardiff Capital Region and West of England Creative Supercluster: Scoping Study. Project Report.Cardiff: Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University.
Websites
- Boswell, M. 2017. Holocaust literature. [Online].Oxford Bibliographies Online. (10.1093/obo/9780190221911-0009)Available at: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780190221911/obo-9780190221911-0009.xml.
Research
Grants
Media Cymru x Creative Wales x NFTS Digital Platforms Fund (£305,547, PI, Welsh Government, 2025).
Media Cymru (£35,368,632, CI, UKRI Strength in Places Fund, Cardiff Capital Region, and Welsh Government, 2022).
Virtual Holocaust Memoryscapes: Scoping the Creation of Immersive, Spatial Archives of the Bergen-Belsen and Neuengamme Memorial Sites (£74,740, PI, AHRC/EPSRC Research and Partnership Development Call for the Next Generation of Immersive Experiences, 2018).
Mobilising Multidirectional Memory to Build More Resilient Communities in South Africa (£99,999, CI, AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund, 2016).
Virtual Holocaust Memory: From Testimony to Holography (£117,201, PI, AHRC Leadership Fellowship, 2015).
Transnational Holocaust Memory (£14,239, PI, World University Network: Fund for International Research Collaboration, 2014).
The Future of Holocaust Memory (£3,000 PI, World University Network: Research Mobility Programme, 2013).
Selected Keynotes and Invited Panels
UK Screen Investment Summit 2025, 'Innovation on set and behind the scenes' panel (BAFTA 195 Piccadilly, London, 2025).
The Future of the Creative Industries, 'Building thriving creative clusters' invited paper (London, 2024).
New Technologies in Education About Auschwitz and the Holocaust, plenary panel (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2023).
Biography
Prior to joining Cardiff University in 2019, Matthew worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds and in various research management roles at Salford University. He studied at the University of Sheffield, where he gained a PhD on Holocaust poetry, an MA in Holocaust Studies, and a BA degree in English Literature.
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Screen and digital media
- Memory
- Cultural and creative industries