Jonathan Ervine

Experience

• 2015–present
  Senior lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Bangor University
• 2014–2017
  Head of Modern Languages and Cultures, Bangor University
• 2007–2015
  Lecturer in French, Bangor University

Education

• 2009 
  University of Leeds, PhD in French
• 2004 
  University of Leeds, MA in French
• 2002 
  University of Leeds, BA in French and Philosophy

Publications

• 2019
  From skepticism to celebration: French football’s changing attitudes to videogames, Contemporary French Civilization. 44, 1, pp. 101-119
• 2019
  Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press),
• 2019
  The valency of the 10th art: the place of videogames in French and Francophone studies, Contemporary French Civilization. 44, 1, pp. 1-19. Co-authored with Hugh Dauncey and Chris Tinker
• 2018
  Football videogames: re-shaping football and re-defining fandom in a postmodern era?, In: Digital Football Cultures: Fandom, Identities and Resistance. Lawrence, S. & Crawford, G. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 139-153
• 2017
  'L’Islam et l’humour: un rire communautaire ou un rire universel?', Le Temps des médias, no. 28, pp. 144-157.
• 2017
  'Nicolas Anelka and the Quenelle Gesture: A Study of the Complexities of Protest in Contemporary Football', The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol 34, no. 3-4, pp. 236-250.
• 2014
  Introduction: Writing and conceptualizing French sport, Contemporary French Civilization 39:1: 1-10
• 2014
  Les banlieues and Les Bleus: Political and media discourse about sport and society in France, French Cultural Studies, 25(1): 70–81
• 2013
  ‘(Re-)presenting Islam: A comparative study of groups of comedians in the United States of America and France’, Performing Islam, 2:1 (2013): 89–104.
• 2013
  ‘French Cinema’s Representations of Enforced Return Migration’,, in Coming Home? Volume 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962–2009, ed. by Sharif Gemie and Scott Soo (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013), pp. 110–128.
• 2013
  ‘Lil Maaz’s Mange du kebab: challenging clichés or serving up stereotypes for mass consumption online ?’, in Music, Culture and Identity in the Muslim World: Performance, Politics and Piety, ed. by Kamal Salhi (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013), pp. 261–280.
• 2013
  Cinema and the Republic: Filiming on the Margins in Contemporary France (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013).,
• 2011
  Kamini’s Rural Rap: a study of minority identities, new media and music, Contemporary French Civilization, 36(1-2): 127–140
• 2009
  'Representations of war: From the New Wave to the New Millennium', 'Representations of war: From the New Wave to the New Millennium' Journal of War and Cultural Studies, vol 2, no. 1, pp. 81-91.
• 2008
  'Not So ‘Far From Vietnam’: A study of war, film, and the media', in A-M Obajtek-Kirkwood & EA Hakanen (eds), Signs of War: From Patriotism to Dissent. 2008 edn, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-218.
• 2008
  'Citizenship and Belonging in Suburban France: the Music of Zebda', ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, vol 7, no. 2, pp. 199-213.
• 2007
  'La Ballade des sans-papiers: Dix ans après', French Studies Bulletin, vol 28, no. 104, pp. 64-67.
• 2007
  'Football, Race and the Republic: A Study of Reactions to France's 1998 World Cup Victory' , Leisure Studies Association Newsletter, vol 78, pp. 26-29.

Professional Memberships

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Member of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF)
• Member of the editorial board of the journal Modern and Contemporary France
• Member of steering group of Routes Into Languages Cymru