Dr. Kirsti Bohata
BA (Dunelm)  PhD (Wales)
K.Bohata@swansea.ac.uk
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Kirsti Bohata works in the fields of Welsh writing in English and postcolonial theory, with particular interest in the late ninteteenth century. With a strong interest in interdisciplinary research, current projects include disability and literature Current research focuses on women's writing from Wales. She is Director of CREW (the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales). She also works in Digital Humanities and organises the Digital Humanities research seminars in the School of Arts and Humanities.

She is the author of Postcolonialism Revisited: Writing Wales in English (UWP 2004; reprinted 2009) and recent publications include ‘"Unhomely moments": Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic' , in The Female Gothic, eds. Andrew Smith and Diana Wallace (Palgrave, 2009) and guest editing the 2010 double issue of the International Journal of Humanties and Arts Computing.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SUPERVISION

Welsh writing in English, Disability and Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Fin de Siècle, Digital Humanities

CURRENT PHD SUPERVISION

'Epilepsy and Literature'
'Disability in Contemporary Welsh Writing in English'

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

National Adviser to the Arts Council of Wales
Welsh Books Council, English-Language Publishing Grants Panel
Editor, Welsh writing in English, The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com)
Director, Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW), Swansea University
Co-Chair, Association of Welsh Writing in English (AWWE)

Kirsti Bohata's Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

2008 Stranger Within the Gates: Selected Stories, Bertha Thomas, (ed. & intro.) Kirsti Bohata (Dinas Powys: Honno)

2004 (reprinted 2009) Postcolonialism Revisited: Writing Wales in English (Cardiff: University of Wales Press). Review in The Modern Language Review, 101: 3 (July 2006).

Edited Journals:

2010 Guest Editor with Susan Schriebman, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 4.1-2 (Special Double Issue)

Chapters in Books:

Forthcoming: 'Welsh Fiction in English: 1979, 1997 and After', in The Oxford History of the Novel in English: British and Irish Fiction, 1940-2000 eds. Peter Boxall and Bryan Cheyette (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

2009 '"Unhomely moments": Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic' , in The Female Gothic, eds. Andrew Smith and Diana Wallace (Palgrave). [Review in Times Higher Education, 3 June 2010]

2005 'Excessive Appetites: Cannibalism and Lesbianism' in Spoiling the Cannibal's Fun?: Cannibalism and Cannibalisation in Culture and Elsewhere [Literary and Cultural Theory Series, Vol. 20] ed. by Wojciech H Kalaga & Tadeusz Rachwal (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang Publishing), 81-91.

2004 'Bertha Thomas: The New Woman and Anglo-Welsh Hybridity', in New Woman Hybridities: Femininity, Feminism and International Consumer Culture, 1880-1930, ed. by Ann Heilmann (London: Routledge), 17-34. [Review in Literature and History, 15: 2 (Autumn 2006)]

2004 'En-gendering a New Wales: Female Allegories, Home Rule and Imperialism 1890-1910', Beyond the Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts, eds. Daniel Williams & Alyce von Rothkirch (Cardiff: University of Wales Press), 57-70.

2003 'Apes and Cannibals: Literary Representations of the Racial Other', in A Tolerant Nation? - Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Wales, ed. by Charlotte Williams, Neil Evans and Paul O'Leary (Cardiff: University of Wales Press), 61-76.

2001'The Black Venus: Atavistic Sexualities', in Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare, ed. by Meic Stephens (Cardiff: University of Wales Press), 231-243.

2001 'Beyond Authenticity: Hybridity and Assimilation in Welsh Writing in English', in Nations and Relations: Writing Across the British Isles, ed. by Tony Brown & Russell Stephens (Cardiff: New Welsh Review), 89-121.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

2003 Co-authored with Roger Robinson, 'Vogel in Wales: Anno Domini 2000, “Lady Gwen” and the Federated Empire', in The Journal of New Zealand Literature, No. 21, special edition on 'NZ in the UK', guest edited by Stuart Murray, 140-146.

2002/03 '“For Wales See England”? Suffrage and the New Woman in Wales', Words as Deeds: Literary and Historical Perspectives on Women's Suffrage, a special issue of Women's History Review, guest ed. by Ann Heilmann, 643-656.

2000 'Apes and Cannibals in Cambria: Images of the Racial and Gendered Other in Welsh Gothic Writing', in Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays Vol. 6, 119-143.

Other Selected Publications:

2008 Feature Article: ‘Writing Women’s Literary Histories’ (including a review of Twentieth Century Women's Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging by Katie Gramich), for New Welsh Review

2005 'Psycho-colonialism Revisited', New Welsh Review, Issue 69, Autumn, 31-39.

2003 lead author and researcher, with Sonia Reynolds, Engaging Communities in Learning (Cardiff: Education and Learning for Wales, ELWa).

2001 'A Place without Boundaries: The Fiction of Christopher Meredith', Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, no. 145, 77-82.

SELECTED CONFERENCE & RESEARCH PAPERS

Invited Lectures

2008 'Peasants and Parishoners: Caradoc Evans and George Moore', Ireland-Wales Network (AHRC), Cardiff University

2008 'Tethered Women in Cow Halters: George Moore's The Untilled Field and Caradoc Evans's My People', Universityof Glamorgan

2005 'Writing and Publishing your first Book' at the 'Disseminating Your Research' AHRB/C funded Gregynog Postgraduate Conference

2004 'Colonial and Postcolonial Wales' , part of The Ferguson Centre for African Studies and The Empire and Commonwealth Museum Open Door Seminar series, 'Conquests, Commodities and Cultures', at the Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol

2004 'Postcolonialism Revisited', Public Lecture at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea

2002 'En-gendering a New Wales: Welsh women's writing in English', at 'Wales: The Re-Imagined Nation', Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English conference, Gregynog, Newtown

Selected Conference Papers

2011 'What's the difference between Sarah Waters and Margiad Evans? Margiad Evans and Englishness', Hyphenating Englishness: The Welsh Presence in English Culture: 1860 - 1960, Swansea University

2011, with Steven Lovatt, 'Rioters and Revolutionaries: The Russian Rebecca Rioter', Wales and Revolution, Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English, Gregynog, Newtown

2010, with George Buchanan, 'Digital Libraries of Scholarly Editions', Digital Humanities 2010, Kings College London. [Abstract available in Digital Humanities 2010: Conference Abstracts (ISBN 978-0-9565793-0-0), or at the conference website.]

2010, 'Cross-class Eroticism in Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Literature', Canons and Canon-Building: Framing the Literatures of Wales, Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English, Gregynog, Newtown

2008 'Tethered Women in Cow Halters: George Moore's The Untilled Field and Caradoc Evans's My People', George Moore and His Contemporaries, University of Hull

2008 '"Off with that dress!" Costume, Class and Disguise in the fiction of Amy Dillwyn', NAASWCH, Toronto University, Canada

2004 Hilda Vaughan and the Great (land) War, at 'Wales and War', Association for Welsh Writing in English Conference, Gregynog, Newtown.

2001 'Woman as Wales: Performing Nation and Empire', at 'Victorian Performances: The Second Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies', Lancaster.

2001 'Conflicting Loyalties? Feminism and Nationalism during the Cymru Fydd movement in Wales (1888-1905)', as a member of a panel on 'Print Culture on the Periphery', chaired by David Finkelstein (Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh), at the annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publication, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

2001 'Conflicting Loyalties?: Feminism and Nationalism in Wales', at 'The 1890s: An Interdisciplinary Conference', Newcastle.

2000 'The New Woman in Wales', at 'The New Woman in the National and International Periodical Press: 1880 to the 1920s', Manchester.

2000 'Apes and Cannibals in Cambria: Images of the Racial and Gendered Other in Gothic Writing in Wales', at 'Wales and the Welsh 2000', Aberystwyth.

2000 'Apes and Cannibals in Cambria: Images of the Racial and Gendered Other in Gothic Writing in Wales', at 'Wales and the Welsh 2000', Aberystwyth.