Dr Sian Round

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

English Literature

+44 (0) 1792 604205

sian.round@abertawe.ac.uk

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3448-1194

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Cymrawd Gyrfa Gynnar Leverhulme yn yr Ysgol Diwylliant a Chyfathrebu yw Siân Round. Mae ei diddordebau ymchwil yn cynnwys diwylliannau de’r Unol Daleithiau, Dadeni Harlem, diwylliannau cyfnodolion a chydweithio. Teitl ei phrosiect Leverhulme, a ariennir rhwng 2024 a 2027, yw 'The Harlem Renaissance and the Southern Tour, 1919-1935.” Gan ganolbwyntio ar awduron megis Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Anne Spencer, a Sterling A. Brown, mae'r prosiect hwn yn defnyddio'r daith fel lens ar gyfer astudio profiadau Americanwyr Affricanaidd o ddiwylliant de’r Unol Daleithiau yn y cyfnod ar ôl y Mudo Mawr. Ochr yn ochr ag Ymddiriedolaeth Leverhulme, mae'r prosiect hwn wedi derbyn cymrodoriaethau gan Brifysgol Virginia, Coleg Williams, a Llyfrgell Beinecke, Prifysgol Yale.

Mae Siân newydd orffen ei monograff cyntaf, sydd â'r enw dros dro The Serial South:The Little Magazine in the US South, 1921-1945, i'w gyhoeddi gan University of Georgia Press yng ngwanwyn 2027. Gan adeiladu ar ei thraethawd ymchwil doethurol (Prifysgol Caergrawnt 2023), mae'r monograff hwn yw’r astudiaeth feirniadol gyntaf o gylchgronau llenyddol yn ne'r Unol Daleithiau yn ystod cyfnod a elwir yn gyffredin yn Ddadeni'r De. Mae'n archwilio sut mae cyfrwng y cyfnodolyn (cyfresoledd, cylchrediad, byrhoedledd) wedi galluogi golygyddion a chyfranwyr i ymdrin â’r y label 'Southernness'. Enillodd erthygl yn deillio o'r prosiect hwn, "Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Periodical Readerships," a gyhoeddwyd yn y Journal of American Studies, Wobr Erthyglau Cymdeithas Ymchwil ar gyfer Cyfnodolion Americanaidd 2024-25. Mae ymchwil arall o'r prosiect hwn wedi ymddangos yn y Journal of Modern Periodical Studies a Routledge Companion to Literature of the US South.

Mae prosiectau diweddar a pharhaus eraill yn cynnwys trefnu cynhadledd undydd ar Ddiwylliannau Print Radical yn Ne'r Unol Daleithiau (2024), creu cyfres seminarau ymchwil o "New Welsh Voices in English Literature," ac ysgrifennu traethawd ar erthyglau golygyddol y De o'r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg hyd heddiw ar gyfer yr Edinburgh Companion to Regional Magazines. Mae hi'n addysgu ychydig yn Abertawe, ac yn flaenorol bu'n addysgu llawer ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd a Phrifysgol Caergrawnt.

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Prif Wobrau

Sterling A. Brown Fellowship, Williams College, 2026

Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in American Literature, Beinecke Library, Yale University, 2026

Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize, 2024-25

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2024-2027

Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American Literature, University of Virginia, 2024

Dana White Graduate Fellowship for Research in Atlanta History, Emory University, 2022

Postgraduate Research Award, British Association for American Studies, 2022

Cyhoeddiadau

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Round, S. (2025). Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Periodical Readerships. Journal of American Studies, 0, 1-21.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875824000689, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68380
Round, S. (2023). Southern Stories for Northern Readers: Julia Peterkin’s Short Stories in The Reviewer and the Disruption of Dialect. The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 14(1), 47-69.
https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.14.1.0047, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67924
Round, S. (2022). Southern Periodical Culture. The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South (pp. 125-128). Routledge
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003009924-32, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67926
Round, S. (2022). Magazine Publics, Jim Crow Politics. The Cambridge Quarterly, 51(2), 168-174.
https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfac003, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67925
Round, S. (2023). New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture. The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 14(1), 95-99.
https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.14.1.0095, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67923
Round, S. (2023). Amanda Sigler. Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture. The Review of English Studies, 74(314), 374-376.
https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad010, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67927
Round, S. (2022). Critical Essays on the Writings of Lillian Smith, Tanya Long Bennett (ed.) (2021). European Journal of American Culture, 41(1), 96-98.
https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00065_5, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67922

Holl Ymchwil

Erthyglau Cylchgronau

Round, S. (2025). Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Periodical Readerships. Journal of American Studies, 0, 1-21.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875824000689, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68380
Round, S. (2023). Southern Stories for Northern Readers: Julia Peterkin’s Short Stories in The Reviewer and the Disruption of Dialect. The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 14(1), 47-69.
https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.14.1.0047, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67924
Round, S. (2023). New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture. The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 14(1), 95-99.
https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.14.1.0095, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67923
Round, S. (2023). Amanda Sigler. Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture. The Review of English Studies, 74(314), 374-376.
https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad010, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67927
Round, S. (2022). Magazine Publics, Jim Crow Politics. The Cambridge Quarterly, 51(2), 168-174.
https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfac003, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67925
Round, S. (2022). Critical Essays on the Writings of Lillian Smith, Tanya Long Bennett (ed.) (2021). European Journal of American Culture, 41(1), 96-98.
https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00065_5, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67922

Penodau Llyfrau

Round, S. (2022). Southern Periodical Culture. The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South (pp. 125-128). Routledge
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003009924-32, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67926

Modiwlau a Addysgir

AM-218 Re-Thinking the South: Southern Culture and History, 1865-1955

What is the `South¿? Where is the `South¿? What makes someone a `southerner¿? Can the South ever be regarded as a single cultural or historical entity, or are there many `Souths¿? Does the `South¿ exist any longer? Much ink has been spilled over these questions amongst both historians and professional ¿South watchers.¿ Over the years, many ¿central themes¿ have been used to define and label the region: food, climate, folkways, music, popular culture, slavery, race relations, geography and even history itself. Questions of regional identity ¿ how southerners perceive themselves and their region (how others perceive both) and how this sense of regional identity has been molded by mythical interpretations of the past ¿ are some of the key themes in this interdisciplinary module. This module shall explore the history and culture of the American South from the end of the Civil War in 1865 through to the mid-1950s and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. The module shall consider the emergence of the ¿New¿ South; late C19th southern politics; the `Lost Cause;¿ the rise of `Jim Crow¿ and racial segregation; lynching; the Ku Klux Klan; the Scopes Trial; the South and the New Deal; the South and World War II; and the Brown Decision. We will also have opportunity examine aspects of southern literature and the representation of the South in film.
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.

Dr Sian Round

Rhif ffôn

Cyfeiriad ebost

Welsh language proficiency