Graham Barnfield

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Graham Barnfield (born 5 November 1969 in Leicester) is a British academic and pundit associated with the hard left Revolutionary Communist Party (1981–1997).

In 1993 he began writing on cultural politics in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Barnfield also comments on documentary representation, leading to some radio and television appearances discussing reality television and happy slapping.[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/jun/07/highereducationprofile.highereducation Graham Barnfield: they thought he was an expert. He is now.], The Guardian, 7 June 2005 He teaches journalism at the University of East London.[http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/staff/graham_barnfield/index.htm UEL page on Graham Barnfield] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060103235715/http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/staff/graham_barnfield/index.htm |date=3 January 2006 }}

He is the former editor of Culture Matters: Communications, Media & Communities (Sheffield Hallam University Press){{cite book|author1=Bertrand Taithe|author2=Tim Thornton|title=Propaganda: Political Rhetoric and Identity, 1300–2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46iFAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Sutton|isbn=978-0-7509-2029-2|page=ix}} and was a 2003 Fellow of the Wolfsonian-FIU.{{cite book|author=Brill Academic|title=Historical Materialism 11.4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yx302AX_lxUC&pg=PA451|year=2003|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-13606-1|page=451}}

He received a BA (Hons) in English with media studies, from the University of Sussex in 1992, and a PhD in cultural studies with the dissertation Co-opting Culture: State Intervention in and Party Patronage of Literary and Popular Culture, 1929–1941, from Sheffield Hallam University in 1996.[http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337118 Co-opting culture : state intervention in and party patronage of literary and popular culture, 1929–1941], Graham William Barnfield, Sheffield Hallam University, 1996

As a teenager, he was a vocalist in Leicester rock band the Marmite Sisters. He briefly developed a sideline as a bit-part actor, including a feature credit in Number One Longing, Number Two Regret{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292155/fullcredits|title=Number One, Longing. Number Two, Regret (2004) – IMDb|accessdate=23 July 2020|publisher=IMDb}} and now writes for a wide range of publications.