Dr Peter Wagstaff
Senior Lecturer in French
1 West North 2.15
Email: p.j.wagstaff@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 6398
Profile
Dr Peter Wagstaff is Departmental Convenor for French and former Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Director of Studies for Modern Languages and European Studies, and Chair of the Joint Committee for the BSc in International Management and Modern Languages. He is ERASMUS (outgoing) coordinator for 2011-12.
Dr Wagstaff is a graduate in French of the University of Exeter, where he also taught, and took his doctorate on French autobiographical writing. He has published extensively on this subject and has written and edited books on a variety of French and European issues including Regionalism in the European Union, Cultures of Exile, and European Border Crossings.
Current research interests focus on cultural aspects of European migration, cross-border identities and on the relationship between textual, filmic and visual culture.
Teaching includes: French Cultural Studies throughout the undergraduate programme in Modern Languages and European Studies; final-year French Written Language, and second year units on Border Crossings and European integration. He offers a final-year option in French Autobiography and, in collaboration with colleagues in German, Russian and Spanish, a unit on Politically Committed European Culture. He contributes to the MA in European Politics.
He is the leader of a recently-completed international collaborative research project, with £60,000 funding from the Leverhulme Trust, on the Russian Jewish experience of exile in Paris and Berlin. This project has brought together some 40 specialists from nine countries in workshops and conferences to explore the historical, literary, artistic and broader cultural legacy of the diaspora; outputs include exhibition, public lecture-recital, and a 150,000-word edited volume to be published in 2011-12.
Research Interests
- Text and Image in Autobiography, with particular reference to Ernaux, Perec, Barthes and the construction of identity.
- Historical representation and the photographic image.
- Literary and filmic representation of migration, frontier crossing, and the diasporic experience.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- PL10787: Introduction to French culture: form and genre
- PL20775: Violence and disintegration in text and image in modern France
- PL20622: French written and spoken language 2
- PL20407: Border crossings: memory and identity in contemporary Europe
- PL20726: European Integration
- PL30623: French written and spoken language 4
- PL30020: French national option F6: French autobiography
- PL30108: European option E2: Politically committed European culture: the end of an era?
- PL30717: French written & oral communication in the international business context
- PL30295: In search of Europe 2: nationalism, regionalism and convergence in Europe since 1989
Postgraduate
- PL50607: Multilevel governance and multilayered citizenship in Europe
- MAIT Dissertations
Publications
Book/s
Schulte, J., Tabachnikova, O. and Wagstaff, P., eds., 2012. Russian Jewish Diaspora and European Culture, 1917-1937. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. (IJS Studies in Judaica; 13)
Wagstaff, P., 2004. Border Crossings: Mapping Identities in Modern Europe. Bern & Oxford: Peter Lang.
Wagstaff, P. and Everett, W., eds., 2004. Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement. Vol. 7. Oxford: Berghahn. (Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections)
Wagstaff, P., ed., 1999. Regionalism in the European Union. Exeter & Portland OR: Intellect.
Wagstaff, P., 1996. Memory and Desire: Rétif de la Bretonne, Autobiography and Utopia. Amsterdam & Atlanta GA: Rodopi. (Faux Titre)
Scriven, M. and Wagstaff, P., eds., 1991. War and Society in Twentieth-Century France. Oxford: Berg & St Martins Press.
Book Sections
Wagstaff, P., 2007. Remapping Regionalism. In: Demossier, M., ed. The European Puzzle: The Political Structuring of Cultural Identities in Europe. Oxford & New York: Berghahn, 161--182.
Wagstaff, P., 2005. Georges Perec (1936-1982). In: Marshall, B., ed. France and the Americas: Culture Politics, History. Vol. 3. Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 922--923.
Wagstaff, P., 2005. Traces of Places: Agnès Varda's mobile space in Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse. In: Goodbody, A. and Everett, W., eds. Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema. Bern & Oxford: Peter Lang, 273--290. (New Studies in European Cinema 2)
Wagstaff, P., 2005. Utopias. In: Marshall, B., ed. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, History. Vol. 3. Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 1170--1172. (Transatlantic Relations)
Wagstaff, P., 2004. ?Island of Tears?: Georges Perec, Ellis Island and the Exile?s Lost Past? In: Wagstaff, P. and Everett, W., eds. Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement. Oxford & New York: Berghahn, 51--66. (Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections)
Wagstaff, P., 2001. France: Eighteenth-Century Autobiography. In: Jolly, M., ed. Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Vol. 1. London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 335--337.
Wagstaff, P., 2001. Stendhal. In: Jolly, M., ed. Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Vol. 2. London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 844--845.
Wagstaff, P., 2001. Storytelling: John Berger's Narrative Journeys in To The Wedding. In: Wagstaff, P., ed. Border Crossings: mapping Identities in Modern Europe. Oxford & Bern: Peter Lang, 225--246. (European Connections)
Wagstaff, P., 2000. The dark side of Utopia: Word, image, and memory in Georges Perec's Récits d’Ellis Island: histoires d’errance et d’espoir. In: Everett, W., ed. The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity. Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, pp. 36-48.
Articles
Wagstaff, P., 2013. Photography and the representation of history in Georges Perec's Ellis island : Tales of vagrancy and hope. Modernism/modernity, 20 (1), pp. 33-43.
Wagstaff, P., 2011. Photography and the Representation of History in Georges Perec's Récits d'Ellis Island: histoires d'errance et d'espoir. Submitted to: Modernism/modernity
Wagstaff, P., 2009. Small world: devolution, localism and the European Union. Velocity
Wagstaff, P., 2005. Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (1734-1806). Literary Encyclopedia
Wagstaff, P., 1998. There and Back Again: The Country and the City in the Fiction of Rétif de la Bretonne. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 10 (4), pp. 451-466.
Wagstaff, P., 1998. Utopian space in the work of Rétif de la Bretonne. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 362, pp. 81-91.
Wagstaff, P., 1997. Utopia and Autobiography: Georges Perec’s W ou le souvenir d’enfance. Utopian Studies, 8 (2), pp. 87-103.
Wagstaff, P., 1996. Vautrin et Gaudet d’Arras: nouvelle évaluation de l’influence de Restif sur Balzac. L'Annee Balzacienne
Wagstaff, P., 1996. Nations, regions, and the future of Europe. Journal of Area Studies, 9, pp. 126-141.
Wagstaff, P., 1994. L’Arc Atlantique: une perspective d’outre-Manche. Arctual, 2, p. 7.
Wagstaff, P., 1986. A Better Country: Rétif’s later Utopias. Modern Language Review, 81 (1), pp. 64-70.
Wagstaff, P., 1986. The childhood of Monsieur Nicolas: Rétif de la Bretonne and the 'Family Romance'. British Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies, 9 (1), pp. 61-71.
Wagstaff, P., 1985. Utopia under siege: the reforming vision of Rétif de la Bretonne. Nottingham French Studies, 24 (2), pp. 1-11.
Wagstaff, P., 1985. Mouru and mort: Further thoughts on the question of analogy. French Studies Bulletin, 15, pp. 10-11.
Wagstaff, P., 1984. Public drama, private trauma: Rétif de la Bretonne and the French Revolution. Times Higher Educational Supplement
Wagstaff, P., 1980. Nicolas’s Father: Rétif and La Vie de mon père. Forum for Modern Language Studies, XVI (4).
Wagstaff, P., 1978. The Expressive Silence: a comparison of Adolphe and Hero of our Time. Quinquereme, 1 (1), pp. 43-52.
