Dr Barbara Lebrun
Senior Lecturer
Overview
I am a Senior Lecturer in French Cultural Studies, at the University of Manchester since 2002. While my teaching specialism broadly covers contemporary French culture, history and politics (with forays into the 19th century and the colonial period), my research is more narrowly focused on popular music in France since the 1960s. Across both my teaching and research, I am interested in the cultural representation of ethnicity, gender, generation and other ‘identities’, and in issues of prestige and taste. My two monographs, Protest Music in France (2009) and Dalida. Mythe et Mémoire (2020) both examine French popular music from the complementary perspectives of ‘alternative’ and ‘mainstream’ culture, production and reception, performance and music genre, whiteness and exoticism. Tout commence par des chansons…
Biography
- PhD (The University of Southampton, 2003)
- PGCE (Homerton College, Cambridge, 1998)
- MA in French as Foreign Language (Université d'Aix-en-Provence, 1998)
- MA in English Studies (Université de Rouen, 1997)
External positions
French Studies Programme External Examiner, The University of Sheffield
Sep 2016 → Jun 2020
Related information
Publications
Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
Activities
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work