Swansea University - PhD Programme

PhD Programme

Over the past decade, CREW has, through its PhD programme, trained a talented generation of new scholars, several of whom have gone on to publish articles and books in the field of Welsh Writing in English. [LINK TO postgraduate and associate publications page]

The subjects covered have included:

  • Autobiographical writings in Wales
  • Studies of figures (such as Aneirin Talfan Davies) seminal to the development of a bridge between the Welsh and English language cultures of Wales.
  • The social and cultural dimensions of the twentieth-century English-language theatre of Wales
  • The construction of masculinity in Wales’s English-language fiction of the first half of the twentieth century.
  • The study of ‘elective’ Welsh writers such as Robert Graves.
  • The cultural constructions of place in twentieth-century Welsh Writing in English.
  • The dialogue between English-language poetry and the Welsh-language poetic tradition.
  • The cultural dynamics of Emyr Humphreys’ fiction.
  • A review of the history of Wales’ English-language literature through the lens of writing produced in the region of Neath-Afan.
  • An exploration of Welsh writing in English in the light of the paradigms developed by Postcolonial studies.