Dr Steve Wharton
Senior Lecturer in French and Communication
1 West North 2.17B
Email: s.wharton@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 5195
Profile
Chair of Academic Assembly, Director of Undergraduate Programmes in PoLIS, and Director of Studies for Programmes in Modern Languages and European Studies, Dr Wharton is active across the University at many levels.
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 across all years of the undergraduate programmes (lecture, seminars and options), 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
- PL10774: La France des années 1930 à 1981
- PL30595: International Marketing Communications (French)
- PL30027: French national option F11: La Persuasion et la Propagande
Publications
Book/s
Wharton, S., 2006. Screening Reality: French Documentary under German Occupation. Bern: Peter Lang.
Book Sections
Wharton, S., 2008. Bars to understanding? The 'gay bar' in 'Coming Out', 'Les Nuits Fauves' and 'Beautiful Thing'. In: Griffiths, R., ed. Queer Cinema in Europe. 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.
Articles
Wharton, S., 2012. Franco-German collaboration in documentary and newsreel: palatable promotion of policy, or the pragmatism of the producer? Submitted paper
Wharton, S., 2007. Mais la loi ne fait pas tout: l'homophobie dans la France contemporaine. Les Cahiers du MIMMOC 4
Orero, P. and Wharton, S., 2007. The Audio description of a Spanish phenomenon: Torrente 3. Journal of Specialised Translation
Wharton, S., 2006. Recherche et enseignement supérieur au Royaume-Uni. VRS - La Vie de la recherche scientifique, 366, 40--42.
Wharton, S., 2000. Unwilling Filmstars: Service de travail obligatoire and its filmic representation. Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 26.
