Background
Worton was born in Luanshya, Zambia, of a Yorkshire father and Scottish mother.
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Michael Worton
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And Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy topic was The Evolution of the Poetry of René Char: 1928-1945).
Career
He was Vice-Provost (International) of University College London (University College London), appointed 1998. He held this appointment concurrently with the university"s Fielden Professorship of French Language and Literature. He retired at the end of September 2013.
In 2009, he wrote Review of Modern Foreign Languages Provision in Higher Education in England for the United Kingdom Government, and in the same year was appointed Higher Education Adviser to the British Council.
Worton"s family returned to Scotland when he was still of primary-school age, and he undertook his schooling at Sanquhar Academy and then Dumfries Academy, going to Edinburgh University for his Master of Arts He has lectured around the world on issues in French Literature, gender studies, painting and photography, critical theory and pedagogy. Over the past decade, he has also spoken around the world on issues in Higher Education Policy and Practice.
Worton"s first post (1976) was as lecturer in French at Liverpool University. He then moved to University College London (1980), initially as lecturer in French Language and literature, and successively: Senior Lecturer in French (1991).
Professor of French (Personal Chair) and Dean of Faculty of Arts(1994).
Appointed to Fielden Chair of French Language and Literature, as well as Vice Provost - with oversight of University College London"s Teaching and Learning, and the faculties of the Arts & Humanities, and Social Sciences (1998). In 2004 his Vice Provost role expanded to ‘Academic and International’. Worton was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 Birthday for services to higher education.
1998: Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques Typical Men (Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham 2001).
Catalogue of the exhibition Typical Men. Recent Photography of the Male Body by Men (see below under ‘Exhibition’).
Women"s Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s, edited and introduced by Gill Rye andMichael Worton (Manchester University Press, 2002). National Healths: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-cultural Context, edited by Michael Worton with Nana Wilson-Tagoe (University College London Press, 2004) Liberating Learning: Widening Participation, edited by Michael Worton and Patrick Derham ( University of Buckingham Press, 2010).
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