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Yr Athro Daniel Williams

Cadair Bersonol

English Literature

daniel.g.williams@abertawe.ac.uk

Siaradwr Cymraeg Rhugl

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Ail lawr
Adeilad Keir Hardie
Campws Singleton

Ar gael ar gyfer Goruchwyliaeth Ôl-raddedig

Dolenni Ymchwil

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8744-1479

Trosolwg

Mae’r Athro Daniel G. Williams yn feirniad diwylliannol ac yn un o ddeallusion cyhoeddus blaenllaw Cymru. Mae ei ddiddordebau ymchwil yn amrywio o'r 19eg ganrif hyd heddiw ac yn cwmpasu llenyddiaethau Cymraeg a Saesneg ar ddwy ochr yr Iwerydd. Mae'r diddordebau hyn yn cael eu cysylltu â’i ddiddordeb mewn cenedlaetholdeb, ethnigrwydd a hunaniaeth.

Mae'r Athro Williams yn Gymrawd Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru ac yn Gymrawd Etholedig yr Academi Gymreig. Mae'n Gyfarwyddwr Canolfan Astudiaethau Cymreig Richard Burton ac mae wedi gwasanaethu fel Llywydd NAASWCH (Cymdeithas Gogledd America ar gyfer Astudio Diwylliant a Hanes Cymru). O 2016 hyd 2024 roedd yn Gadeirydd Panel Dyfarnu Grantiau Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru (yn yr iaith Saesneg).

Ganed Daniel Williams yn Aberystwyth ym 1972 ac fe’i haddysgwyd yn Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth ac Ysgol Gyfun Penweddig. Fel myfyriwr israddedig, astudiodd Lenyddiaeth Americanaidd a Saesneg ym Mhrifysgol Dwyrain Anglia (Norwich), gan dreulio ei drydedd flwyddyn ym Mhrifysgol Clark, Worcester, Massachusetts. Dyfarnwyd Cymrodoriaeth Frank Knox iddo ym 1995 i astudio ym Mhrifysgol Harvard, gan raddio gydag MA mewn Ieithoedd a Llenyddiaethau Celtaidd ym 1997. Astudiodd am ei PhD mewn Llenyddiaeth Saesneg (2001) ym Mhrifysgol Caergrawnt lle ariannwyd ei amser yng Ngholeg y Brenin gan yr AHRB (Bwrdd Ymchwil y Celfyddydau a'r Dyniaethau). Dechreuodd Daniel ddysgu ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe ym mis Ionawr 2000. Roedd yn Gyfarwyddwr Cynorthwyol CREW (Canolfan Ymchwil i Lenyddiaeth ac Iaith Saesneg Cymru) rhwng 2001 a 2007 ac fe olynodd yr Athro M. Wynn Thomas fel Cyfarwyddwr rhwng 2007 - 2010.

Y tu hwnt i'r byd academaidd, mae ganddo ddiddordeb arbennig mewn cerddoriaeth a gwleidyddiaeth. Mae’n sacsoffonydd jazz lled-broffesiynol ac yn sylfaenydd y chwechawd jazz-gwerin ‘Burum’ sydd wedi rhyddhau pedair albwm - Alawon (2007), Caniadau (2012), Llef (2016), Eneidiau (2022). Mae’n byw yng Nghwm Tawe ac fe safodd fel ymgeisydd Plaid Cymru yn etholaeth Castell-nedd ar gyfer etholiadau San Steffan yn 2017 a 2019.

Meysydd Arbenigedd

Llenyddiaethau Cymru
Llenyddiaeth Affro-Americanaidd
Llenyddiaethau Celtaidd (ers 1800)
Raymond Williams a syniadaeth y Chwith
Hanes Deallusol
Cenedlaetholdeb Ddiwylliannol
Hunaniaethau Ethnig
Trefedigaethedd a theori ôl-drefedigaethol.

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Diddordebau Addysgu

Mae'r Athro Williams yn dysgu ar draws y mwyafrif o gyfnodau, gyda ffocws penodol ar lenyddiaethau Affro-Americanaidd, Gwyddelig a Chymreig. Anela, yn ei ddysgu, at ddatblygu dulliau o gymharu traddodiadau llenyddol.

Mae'n cydlynu cyrsiau ar yr MA yn Llên Saesneg Cymru. (Mae’r llun o’r seminar olaf cyn y Nadolig a gynhelir yn draddodiadol yn nhý Dylan Thomas ar Cwmdonkin Drive).

Mae wedi cyfarwyddo deg PhD hyd at eu cwblhau, yn amrywio o'r bardd Harri Webb i'r nofelydd Affro-Americanaidd Ishmael Reed, o Farcsiaeth Ewropeaidd i ôl-drefedigaethedd.

Mae wedi arwain a chyd-ddysgu seminarau ym mhrifysgolion Harvard, Aberystwyth a Phrifysgol Texas yn Austin.

Ymchwil Prif Wobrau Cydweithrediadau

Cyhoeddiadau

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Williams, D. & Sollors, W. (Eds.). (2025). The Werner Sollors Reader. Edinburgh University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68523
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-werner-sollors-reader.html
Williams, D., Bohata, K., & Thomas, M. (Eds.). (2024). Transatlantic Vistas: On the Literatures of Wales and the United States. University of Wales Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70826
https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/transatlantic-vistas-mw-thomas/
Williams, D. (2021). The Centenary Edition: Raymond Williams/Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity (2nd, The Centenary Edition ed.). The University of Chicago Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59650
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo86587115.html
Williams, D. (2024). Pobloedd Etholedig. Hunan a Chenedl: Cyfrol Gyfarch E. Gwynn Matthews (pp. 118-143). Y Lolfa
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68521
https://www.ylolfa.com/products/9781800995895/astudiaethau-athronyddol-9.-hunan-a-chenedl-cyfol-gyfarch-e.-gwynn-matthews
Mathias, G. & Williams, D. (Eds.). (2021). A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias Prize Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Seren.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59649
https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/last-respect-anthology

Holl Ymchwil

Erthyglau Cylchgronau

Williams, D. (2023). 'Y Corff a'r Ysbryd': darllen Dylan Thomas a W. D. Davies wedi'r Holocost. Trafodion Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion, 29, 59-75.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68522
https://www.cymmrodorion.org/the-transactions/y-corff-ar-ysbryd-darllen-dylan-thomas-a-w-d-davies-wedir-holocost/
Williams, D. (2021). The Crisis of Welsh Europeanism: Raymond Williams and Hannah Arendt after Brexit. Coils of the Serpent, 9(9), 27-42.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60052
https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2021/12/the-crisis-of-welsh-europeanism/
Williams, D. (2020). Cultura, cidadania e as massas: Raymond Williams e os intelectuais de Nova York. Resgate: Revista Interdisciplinar de Cultura, 28, e020003-26.
https://doi.org/10.20396/resgate.v28i0.8658742, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56020
Williams, D. (2016). “Speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth?”: Modernism and translation in Welsh writing in English. Translation Studies, 9(2), 183-197.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2015.1118405, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25483
Williams, D. (2016). Sgrech Yr Isymwybod Cymreig. O'r Pedwar Gwynt, 1(1), 11-13.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36854
https://pedwargwynt.cymru/dadansoddi/golygfa/sgrech-yr-isymwybod-cymraeg
Williams, D. (2015). Beyond invisibility. Uses of comparison in Welsh cultural nationalism. Studies on National Movements, 2(1)
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25485
http://snm.nise.eu/index.php/studies/article/view/0208a
Williams, D. (2012). Uncle Tom and Ewythr Robert: Anti-Slavery and Ethnic Reconstruction in Victorian Wales. Slavery and Abolition, 33(2), 275-286.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039x.2012.669904, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59652
Williams, D. (2012). Uncle Tom and Ewyrth Robert: Anti-Slavery and Ethnic Reconstruction in Victorian Wales. Slavery and Abolition, 33(2), 275-286.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12021
Williams, D. (2011). Introduction: Raymond Williams in Japan. Keywords: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, 9(1), 40-48.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12020
Williams, D. (2010). Assimilation through self-assertion: aspects of African American and Welsh thought in the C19. Comparative American Studies, 8(2), 107-125.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11471
Williams, D. (2010). Introduction: Celticism and the Black Atlantic. Comparative American Studies An International Journal, 8(2), 81-87.
https://doi.org/10.1179/147757010x12677983681271, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59655
Williams, D. (2010). 'Assimilation through Self-Assertion': Aspects of African American and Welsh Thought in the Nineteenth Century. Comparative American Studies An International Journal, 8(2), 107-125.
https://doi.org/10.1179/147757010x12677983681352, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59654
Williams, D. (2009). Another lost cause? Pan-Celticism, race and language. Irish Studies Review, 17(1), 89-101.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09670880802658174, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11474
Williams, D. & Williams, D. (2006). ''If We Only Had Some Of What They Have'': Ralph Ellison in Wales'. Comparative American Studies, 4(1), 25-48.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1477570006061310, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2512
Williams, D. (2006). 'If we only had some of what they have' Ralph Ellison in Wales. Comparative American Studies An International Journal, 4(1), 25-48.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1477570006061310, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59659
Williams, D. (2004). From Hay-on-Wye to the Haymarket Riots: William Dean Howells and Wales. New Welsh Review: Wales’s Literary Magazine in English, 64, 49-57.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59661
https://newwelshreview.com/product/new-welsh-review-64-summer-2004
Williams, D. (2003). Beyond National Literature? Dylan Thomas and Amos Tutuola in 'Igbo masquerade'. New Welsh Review, 60, 5-12.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59662
Williams, D. (1998). Harry Secombe in the Junkshop: Nation, Myth and Invention in Edward Thomas's House of America and David Mamet's American Buffalo. Welsh writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, 4
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59665
https://www.awwe.org/volume-4-1998.html

Llyfrau Awdurol

Williams, D. (2021). The Centenary Edition: Raymond Williams/Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity (2nd, The Centenary Edition ed.). The University of Chicago Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59650
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo86587115.html
Williams, D. (2017). Wales Bird: Dylan Thomas and the American Empire / Aderyn Rhiannon: Dylan Thomas ac Ymerodraeth America Martin Daws.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36851
Williams, D. (2015). Wales Unchained: Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century University of Wales Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25481
https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/wales-unchained/
Williams, D. (2012). Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales, 1845 - 1945 University of Wales Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12018
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo14296014.html
Williams, D. (2012). Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales 1845-1945 University of Wales Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59653
https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/black-skin-blue-books/
Williams, D. (2010). Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1970-2005 Seren.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59656

Penodau Llyfrau

Williams, D. (2024). Pobloedd Etholedig. Hunan a Chenedl: Cyfrol Gyfarch E. Gwynn Matthews (pp. 118-143). Y Lolfa
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68521
https://www.ylolfa.com/products/9781800995895/astudiaethau-athronyddol-9.-hunan-a-chenedl-cyfol-gyfarch-e.-gwynn-matthews
Williams, D. (2021). Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Harlem Renaissance. In Rachel Farebrother Miriam Thaggert (Ed.), A History of the Harlem Renaissance (pp. 21-37). Cambridge University Press
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108656313.002, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56019
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-the-harlem-renaissance/cultural-nationalism-and-cosmopolitanism-in-the-harlem-renaissance/BAD1D0B145A5463D1E3DD87B92428FE8
Williams, D. (2021). Dylan X: Universalism, Loss and Language. In Katie Jones, Julian Preece and Aled Rees (Ed.), International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures: From Translingualism to Language Mixing (pp. 12-51). Cambridge Scholars Publishing
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56017
Williams, D. (2018). In Paris or Sofia? Avant-garde poetry and cultural nationalism after devolution. Devolutionary Readings: English Language Poetry and Contemporary Wales (pp. 115-156). Peter Lang
https://doi.org/10.3726/b13147, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36853
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/47152
Williams, D. (2016). Celticism. Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Late Victorian into Modern 1880 - 1920 Oxford University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25484
Williams, D. (2014). 'Wales Bird: Dylan Thomas and Charlie Parker'. Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration (pp. 151-164). Bloomsbury
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25482
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dylan-thomas-9781472903099/
Williams, D. (2013). Is the Pan in Pan-Celticism the Pan in Pan-Africanism: Language, Race and Diaspora. Celts in the Americas University College of Cape Breton Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13895
http://cbup.ca/books/newton-celts-americas/
Williams, D. (2011). Welsh Modernism. The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms OUP
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11472
Williams, D. (2010). Tu ol i’r Llen: Agweddau ar Berthynas Paul Robeson a Chymru. Canu Caeth: Affro-Americaniaid a'r Cymry Gwasg Gomer
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12015
Williams, D. (2010). Writing Against the Grain: Raymond Williams’s Border Country (1960) and the Defence of Realism. Mapping the Territory: Critical Approaches to Welsh Fiction in English Parthian
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12013
http://www.parthianbooks.com/content/mapping-territory-critical-approaches-welsh-fiction-english
Williams, D. (2010). “American Freaks”: Welsh Poets and the United States. Slanderous Tongues Seren Books
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12014
Williams, D. (2008). Black and White: Writing on Fighting in Wales. Wales and its Boxers University of Wales Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12017

Llyfrau wedi'u Golygu

Williams, D. & Sollors, W. (Eds.). (2025). The Werner Sollors Reader. Edinburgh University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68523
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-werner-sollors-reader.html
Williams, D., Bohata, K., & Thomas, M. (Eds.). (2024). Transatlantic Vistas: On the Literatures of Wales and the United States. University of Wales Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70826
https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/transatlantic-vistas-mw-thomas/
Mathias, G. & Williams, D. (Eds.). (2021). A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias Prize Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Seren.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59649
https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/last-respect-anthology
Williams, D. (Ed.). (2010). Canu Caeth: Affro-Americaniaid a'r Cymry. Gwasg Gomer.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12016
Williams, D. (Ed.). (2010). Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1975–2005. Seren.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11473
Williams, D. (Ed.). (2003). Raymond Williams. Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity. University of Wales Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36856

Cynnyrch Ymchwil Arall

Williams, D. (2017). Assimilation and its Discontents: Wales in British Literature
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36855
http://dase.laits.utexas.edu/media/bsls/mp3/100540331.mp3
Williams, D. (2010). Aneurin Bevan and Paul Robeson: Socialism, Class and Identity
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12019
Williams, D. (2005). Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Arnold to Du Bois
https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748622054.001.0001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59658
http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748622054.001.0001

Goruchwyliaeth

Welsh or American? The shift in patriotism amongst the Welsh-American communities during and following the American Civil War. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Gethin Matthews
Untitled (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Nicko Vaughan
The presentation of national identity in contemporary Welsh Brexit literature. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Kirsti Bohata
Reading the British Mountainscape: Tour Writing and poetry on mountain landscapes, 1930-1955. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Kirsti Bohata
'Intimate Otherness in Welsh Writing in English and Anglo-Irish Literature' (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Kirsti Bohata
The Cyfarwydd - an exploration of the role of the storyteller and the impact of myth creation from Medieval times to the present day. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Alan Bilton
Arnold Bennett: A Critical Re-evaluation of his novels and literary criticism (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Richard Robinson
The tyranny of non-objectivity: The philosophical and legal systems of authoritarian regimes in dystopian literature, 1932–1958, examined from Ayn Rand’s perspective on authoritarianism. (dyfarnwyd 2025)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Richard Robinson
Beyond the Myth - finding the truth and drama in a biographical screenplay. (dyfarnwyd 2023)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof David Britton
Shakespeare, Race and Minstrelsy: American Culture 1800 -1865 (dyfarnwyd 2023)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Rachel Farebrother
Europe, Curry and India: A Case of Culinary Colonialism (dyfarnwyd 2023)

MA

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Rachel Farebrother

Modiwlau a Addysgir

EN-120 English Essentials

This is a skills-based module which will equip students with the technical and critical expertise that is necessary for their academic journey in English Literature and Creative Writing. It is designed to support the transition from post-16 study to undergraduate study and to show students *how* to become successful scholars of English. How should we read texts? How do we write essays? Focusing on an exciting anthology of texts selected by the English academics at Swansea, this team-taught module uncovers the power of written language. We will explore how writers inspire and challenge their readers, how to think critically, how to close-read, how to construct powerful arguments and how to produce written work that is rigorous, academic and convincing. This module empowers students to think, write, and persuade.
EN-206 Debating Texts: Theory in Literature

Literature prompts debate, and speaks to us differently depending on the questions that we ask of it. This course looks at how our understanding of meaning in literature changes when we think about critical debates concerning the role of history, language and subjectivity in texts. We take three very different texts from different periods, and look at the ways in which the texts (and debates around them) raise questions of history, language and subjectivity, and how the texts comment on these issues. We begin with a classic of 19th century realism, Charles Dickens's HARD TIMES (1854), move on to the groundbreaking work of modernist experiment, Virginia Woolf's MRS DALLOWAY (1925), and end with a powerful example of postmodern representation, Toni Morrison's BELOVED (1987). The course will be taught by a formal lecture followed by a discussion forum, in which short passages of literary and theoretical text will be read and debated in the lecture theatre.
EN-207 Revolution of the Word: Modernism

An introduction to Modernist literature, focussing upon its origins in response to the crisis of modernity, its engagement with colonialism and the First World War, its formal experimentation, its depiction of city-life and its engagement with new ideas of gender and the unconscious.
EN-241 Fragments of Union: The Cultural Making and Breaking of Britain

The nationality question has been a persistent theme in British politics, most obviously in recent decades in relationship to questions of immigration and settlement, Britain¿s membership of Europe, the `troubles¿ and `peace process¿ in Ulster, and the resurgence of forms of devolution and nationalism in Wales and Scotland. This course explores the ways in which the diverse literatures of the British Isles have responded to, and shaped, debates around these issues. The questions asked on the course will include: How does a `four nations¿ approach, well-established in historical studies, function in literary studies? What are the key differences and similarities between the literatures produced in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales? To what extent does literature reflect social identities, and to what extent is it active in their creation? If all identities are in as sense `imagined¿, why have certain kinds of identities been significant in particular periods? Is an aesthetics informed by nationalism inevitably conservative and restrictive? Are linguistically experimental writers always skeptical of collective identities? Are we witnessing the `break up¿ of Britain in contemporary literature, or is Britishness being reconstructed anew?
EN-244 American Word / American Image

This module explores the central work of twentieth-century American literature in relation to American visual culture, including film, art, photography and pop culture.
EN-3031 Dissertation - English Literature

The Dissertation is an optional, two-semester, 40-credit module designed to develop high-level academic skills and intellectual independence in the students. A first-semester skills-building programme will include: research skills, summary skills, bibliographic skills, ability to synthesise succinctly, planning and organisational skills, correct presentation of a thesis and bibliography, presentational skills and public speaking. Students conduct research on a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of the English literature staff. The topic will be devised to fall within staff research and teaching specialisms, broadly defined. Students attend group sessions on research skills in Semesters 1 and 2, and have individual meetings with supervisors in Semester 2.
EN-M31 Dissertation

Individual project devised and defined in discussion between supervisor and student.
EN-M44 Gender, Genre and the Nation: Women Writing Modern Wales

This course explores the range and diversity of Welsh women's writing in English. We will question and explore the legitimacy of reading and organizing literary texts along lines of gender, will ask whether there is a distinctive form of Welsh women's writing, and interrogate the ways in which forms of feminism have interacted with other cultural forces and political ideologies (eg class, nationalism, language) in Wales. We begin by exploring ideas of tradition and canon formation in the light of feminist criticism before going on to discuss the writings of early Welsh feminists and their relationship with nation (Amy Dillwyn, Bertha Thomas, Sara Maria Saunders), before moving on to look at Welsh women modernists (Lynette Roberts, Dorothy Edwards, Margiad Evans, Hilda Vaughan), rewriting industrial and post-industrial experience (Kate Roberts, Menna Gallie, Rachel Trezise), and a range of contemporary of contemporary voices animating the Welsh literary scene from Catrin Dafydd and Gwyneth Lewis to Trezza Azzopardi and Charlotte Williams. There will be two additional (optional) sessions in the archives to introduce students to using archival resources in their studies.

Yr Athro Daniel Williams

Cyfeiriad ebost

Welsh language proficiency

LinkedIn Account

Dolenni Ymchwil

Trosolwg

Meysydd Arbenigedd

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Holl Ymchwil

Welsh or American? The shift in patriotism amongst the Welsh-American communities during and following the American Civil War. (cyfredol)

Untitled (cyfredol)

The presentation of national identity in contemporary Welsh Brexit literature. (cyfredol)

Reading the British Mountainscape: Tour Writing and poetry on mountain landscapes, 1930-1955. (cyfredol)

'Intimate Otherness in Welsh Writing in English and Anglo-Irish Literature' (cyfredol)

The Cyfarwydd - an exploration of the role of the storyteller and the impact of myth creation from Medieval times to the present day. (cyfredol)

Arnold Bennett: A Critical Re-evaluation of his novels and literary criticism (cyfredol)

The tyranny of non-objectivity: The philosophical and legal systems of authoritarian regimes in dystopian literature, 1932–1958, examined from Ayn Rand’s perspective on authoritarianism. (dyfarnwyd 2025)

Beyond the Myth - finding the truth and drama in a biographical screenplay. (dyfarnwyd 2023)

Shakespeare, Race and Minstrelsy: American Culture 1800 -1865 (dyfarnwyd 2023)

Europe, Curry and India: A Case of Culinary Colonialism (dyfarnwyd 2023)

EN-120 English Essentials

EN-206 Debating Texts: Theory in Literature

EN-207 Revolution of the Word: Modernism

EN-241 Fragments of Union: The Cultural Making and Breaking of Britain

EN-244 American Word / American Image

EN-3031 Dissertation - English Literature

EN-M31 Dissertation

EN-M44 Gender, Genre and the Nation: Women Writing Modern Wales