Jack Black

Jack Black is Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University and affiliated with the Centre for Culture, Media and Society, where he is Research Lead for the ‘Anti-Racism Research Group’.

An interdisciplinary researcher, with research interests in the disciplines of sport, media/cultural studies, and psychoanalysis, Jack has published on topics relating to race and racism; online hate across digital media platforms; sport, politics, and national identity; comedy and humour; and, political ecology.

Jack's teaching involves introductory modules on philosophy and sociology.

In 2023, Jack published 'The Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach to Racism and Racialization' (Routledge), which applied key concepts from Lacanian psychoanalysis to theorizations of race and racism. This included examples drawn from popular culture and politics.

In 2021, Jack published 'Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy - A Psychoanalytic Exploration' (Routledge), which explored the relation between comedy and political correctness in television sitcoms, and, specifically, The Office (UK).

Jack is also co-editor of 'Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments' (Routledge, 2022).

Jack is an Associate Editor for the journals 'Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society' and the 'International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure'.

Jack has a PhD, MSc and BSc (Hons) from Loughborough University and has previously taught at the University of Leicester, Nottingham Trent University, and Loughborough University.