Dr Steve Wharton

Steve Wharton

Senior Lecturer in French and Communication

Deputy Head of Department

Director of Language Learning and Teaching

1 West North 2.17B
Email: s.wharton@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 5195

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Honorary Secretary

Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France

Chair of Directors

Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

Profile

Dr Wharton is Deputy Head of Department. As Director of Language Learning and Teaching, he is responsible for managing the Foreign Languages Centre and all undergraduate foreign language teaching activities. A Life Member of the University Court and an elected member of both the University Council and Senate, as a former Chair of Academic Assembly, Director of Undergraduate Programmes in PoLIS, and Director of Studies for Programmes in Modern Languages and European Studies, he is active across the University at many levels.

He was made Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Government in February 2012 for services to French Culture.

A past recipient of the Mary Tasker Award for Excellence in University Teaching, Dr Wharton undertakes research which places him as an acknowledged expert in contemporary social movements (LGBT activism in Britain and France) and a regular contributor to the media on issues of political communication, as well as adding to our knowledge of French propaganda of the Vichy period.

He is also well-versed in Higher Education policy and analysis, with direct knowledge of the industrial relations landscape.

His teaching includes French politics and Society (Final Year option), International Marketing Communications for IMML (French), and French to English translation.

Research Interests

LGBT activism in Britain and France, within the wider European context
Perceptions and portrayals of homosexuality in Britain and France, within the wider European context
Persuasion, Propaganda and Political Marketing

Teaching

Undergraduate

Publications

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Book/s

Wharton, S., 2006. Screening Reality: French Documentary under German Occupation. Bern: Peter Lang. (Modern French Identities)

Book Sections

Wharton, S., 2008. Bars to understanding? Depictions of the 'gay bar' in film with specific reference to 'Coming Out', 'Les Nuits Fauves' and 'Beautiful Thing'. In: Griffiths, R., ed. Queer cinema in Europe. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 106-116.

Wharton, S., 2006. From margin to mainstream? Establishing a community of gay citizens. In: Cole, A., ed. Redefining the French Republic. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 82--96.

Wharton, S., 2003. Pédés, PACS et pognon: establishing a community of French gay citizens? In: Cairns, L., ed. Lesbian and Gay Cultures in France. Bern: Peter Lang AG, p. 12.

Wharton, S., 2000. Pédés et polemiques: Faggots and Fireworks - Les Nuits fauves and its Moral(ity). In: Everett, W., ed. The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi.

Wharton, S., 1999. Progress, What Progress? The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement in the Fifth Republic. In: Allison, M., ed. Forty Years of the Fifth French Republic: Actions, Dialogues and Discourses. Bern: Peter Lang AG.

Wharton, S., 1997. Financial (Self-)Identification: the pink economy in France. In: Perry, S., ed. Voices of France. London: Pinter.

Wharton, S., 1995. Desperation and d'sespoir: gay activism in France. In: Windebank, J., ed. Violence and conflict in the politics and society of contemporary France. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen.