Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW)

Welcome to CREW

CREW is dedicated to research into the Anglophone literature and language of Wales. Its research programme includes scholarship in fields such as nationalism and transnationalism, multilingualism and translation, comparative literature, postcolonial studies, queer writing, cultural history, proletarian literature, disability studies and medieval studies.

The series ‘Writing Wales in English’ (published by the University of Wales Press) is edited from CREW, as is the Welsh Government commissioned series of classics, ‘The Library of Wales’.

CREW runs an MA in Welsh Writing in English, a PhD programme and welcomes applications from visiting scholars.

People

Co-director

Professor Daniel Gwydion Williams is a cultural critic and one of Wales’ leading public intellectuals. His research interests range from the 19th century to the present day and encompass Welsh language and English language literatures on both sides of the Atlantic. These interests are linked by a concern with questions of nationalism, ethnicity and identity.

Professor Daniel Gwydion Williams

Co-director

Professor Kirsti Bohata is a leading scholar in the field of Welsh writing in English, and has published on postcolonial theory, queer literature, disability studies and literary geography from the late nineteenth-century to the present. Her most recent book is Disability in Industrial Britain (Manchester University Press, 2020) which is fully open access.

Professor Kirsti Bohata