Dr Jonathan Ervine

Senior Lecturer in French

Contact info

Position: Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

Email: j.ervine@bangor.ac.uk

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Phone: 01248 382129 (2129 internal)

Location: Room 415, New Arts Building

I am a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, and specialize in French popular culture as well as debates about identity and belonging in contemporary France. I am the author of two books; Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions (Liverpool University Press, 2019) and Cinema and the Republic: Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France (University of Wales Press, 2013). I have also published several articles and book chapters about debates on French national identity in sport, music and comedy, and also written several articles about videogames in France.

I am originally from Fife in Scotland and completed a B.A. in French and Philosophy at the University of Leeds. From 2002-2004, I was a lecteur d’anglais at l’Université Charles de Gaulle Lille 3. During this time, I completed an MA by research at the University of Leeds on the theme of opposition to war in French cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. I returned to Leeds in 2004 to begin a PhD on representations of social and racial exclusion in contemporary French cinema. I have lectured here in Bangor since 2007.

I am currently Head of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures.

  1. Published

    Immigrant Struggles in France: Avoiding the Transnational?

    Ervine, J., 25 May 2009.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  2. Published

    Les banlieues and Les Bleus: Political and media discourse about sport and society in France

    Ervine, J., 1 Feb 2014, In: French Cultural Studies. 25, 1, p. 70-81

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Adopted and enforced homelands in the films of Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

    Ervine, J., 10 Jul 2009.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  4. Published

    Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions

    Ervine, J., 29 Nov 2019, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 208 p. (Studies in Modern and Contemporary France)

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  5. Published

    French and Francophone Videogames in Transnational Perspective

    Ervine, J. & Dauncey, H., 1 Nov 2023, Transnational French Studies. Forsdick, C. & Launchbury, C. (eds.). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Vol. 6. p. 207-224 18 p. (Transnational Modern Languages).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  6. Published

    Citizenship and Belonging in Suburban France: the Music of Zebda

    Ervine, J., 1 May 2008, In: ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 7, 2, p. 199-213

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    La Ballade des sans-papiers: Dix ans après

    Ervine, J., 1 Sept 2007, In: French Studies Bulletin. 28, 104, p. 64-67

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    The Opposition to War in French Cinema 1954-67

    Ervine, J., 14 Oct 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  9. Published

    The role of films in the campaign against the double peine 1991-2002

    Ervine, J., 10 Sept 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  10. Published

    Cinema and the Republic: Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France

    Ervine, J., 15 Aug 2013, University of Wales Press.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook