Postgraduate Prospectus 2011

Aberystwyth University - ABWTH A40English and Creative Writing 63the Literature andCulture of the 1790s(2002; co-recipientof the Foster WatsonMemorial Gift), and ofa number of articleson nineteenth- andtwentieth- centur yliterature. He is theeditor of Echoes to theAmen: Essays after R.S.Thomas (2003) and ofRomanticism, History,Historicism: Essayson an Orthodoxy (2008), and co-editor of TheMonstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influencein Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) and ofWales and the Romantic Imagination (2007).He has also edited Waldo Williams: Rhyddiaith(Waldo Williams: Prose Works, 2001; winner ofthe 2002/03 Sir Ellis Griffith and L. W. DaviesPrizes), and co-edited Cof ac Arwydd: YsgrifauNewydd ar Waldo Williams (Memory and Sign:New Essays on Waldo Williams, 2006). He haspublished an edited collection of creative nonfictionessays, Megalith (2006), and a co-writtenvolume of poetry, Whiteout (2006). His first solocollection, Suit of Lights, was published by Serenin 2009. He is currently completing a monographentitled Cartographies of Culture, and is GeneralEditor of the forthcoming four-volume OxfordLiterary History of Wales.Diane Watt (Professor, Head of Department,IMEMS Deputy Director)Lectures in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.Her main research interests are in Ricardianpoetry, especially Chaucer and Gower, women’sand religious writings and in the Middle Agesand Renaissance, and premodernand early modernconstructions of genderand sexuality. Diane’sbooks include Secretariesof God: Women Prophetsin Late Medieval and EarlyModern England (DS Brewer,1997; winner of the FosterWatson Memorial Gift 1998),Amoral Gower: Language,Sex and Politics (Universityof Minnesota Press, 2003;winner of the John Hurt Fisher Prize2004), and The Letters of the PastonWomen (DS Brewer, 2004), andMedieval Women’s Writing (Polity,2008). Her teaching and researchinterests also include women’s and genderstudies and feminist and queer theory.Tim Woods (Professor, Dean of Arts)Main teaching and research interests aretwentieth-century writing; contemporaryBritish and American poetry; modernism andpostmodernism; literary theory, especiallyMarxism and post structuralism; Africanliteratures in English. His main publications areBeginning Postmodernism (1999; 2nd edition,2008), and Who’s Who of Twentieth-CenturyNovelists (2000), The Poetics of the Limit (2002).Tim is co-author of Literatures of Memory (2001)and co-editor of ‘I’m telling you Stories’: JeanetteWinterson and the Politics of Reading (1998),Critical Ethics (1999) and The Ethics of Literature(1999). He is a previous member of the ExecutiveCommittee of the British Association for AmericanStudies (BAAS) and joint editor with PeterMiddleton of Torque Press poetry publications.He is Series Co-editor with Helena Grice of theEdinburgh University Press series RepresentingAmerican Events, for which they are currentlywriting a book on the Great Depression, andhe is also writing a book on literature in SouthAfrica, entitled Post-Apartheid Narratives: SouthAfrican Literatures in Transition (due in 2011).His latest monograph is entitled African Pasts:History and Memory in African Literature (2007).Dr Kate Wright (Lecturer)Teaches twentieth- and twenty-first centuryBritish and American literature and literarytheory. Her main research interests are Africanliterature in English, contemporary Britishwomen’s literature, with a focus on literaryrepresentations of multicultural societies,and feminist theory. She is working on amonograph entitled Three African WomenNovelists: Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta andTsitsi Dangarembga (Manchester UniversityPress, 2009).