Professor Katie Gramich - BA (Wales) MA (London) PhD (Alberta)
Overview
Position:
Professor
Email:
GramichK@cf.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)29 208 75622
Extension: 75622
Location: John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff
Research Group
Postgraduate Students
I would welcome applications from potential postgraduate students interested in research in any of my research interests. [You are welcome to contact me in Welsh, if you wish / Mae croeso i chwi gysylltu â mi yn y Gymraeg, os dymunwch].
Research Interests
Welsh writing in English, twentieth-century women’s writing, comparative literature, Modernism and marginality, postcolonial literatures, twentieth-century poetry, or travel writing.
Selected Publications
Twentieth Century Women’s Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007) Monograph.
Dangerous Diversity: The Changing Faces of Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998). Co-editor, with Andrew Hiscock.
The Rebecca Rioter, Amy Dillwyn (Dinas Powys: Honno Classics, 2001; original edition 1880). Editor.
"Cymru or Wales?: Explorations in a Divided Sensibility" in Studying British Cultures ed. Susan Bassnett (London: Routledge, 1997).
"Daughters of Darkness: Dylan Thomas and the Celebration of the Female" in Dylan Thomas (New Casebook) edited by John Goodby & Chris Wigginton (London: Macmillan, 2001).
“Mirror Games: Self and (M)Other in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas” in ‘Echoes to the Amen’: The Achievement of R.S. Thomas, edited by Damian Walford Davies (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003).
Publications
Books
Dangerous Diversity: The Changing Faces of Wales, ed., with Andrew Hiscock, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998).
Queen of the Rushes, Allen Raine, ed. (Dinas Powys: Honno, 1998; original ed. 1906).
The Rebecca Rioter, Amy Dillwyn, ed. (Dinas Powys: Honno, 2001; original ed. 1880).
Welsh Women’s Poetry 1460-2001: An Anthology , ed., with Catherine Brennan, and translator, (Honno, 2003).
Chapters/articles (selected)
"Cymru or Wales?: Explorations in a Divided Sensibility"in Studying British Cultures ed. Susan Bassnett (London: Routledge, 1997).
"Daughters of Darkness: Dylan Thomas and the Celebration of the Female" in Dylan Thomas (New Casebook) edited by John Goodby & Chris Wigginton (London: Macmillan, 2001).
“Stripping off the ‘civilized body’: Lawrence’s nostalgie de la boue in Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in Writing the Body in D. H. Lawrence ed. P. Poplawski (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001).
“The Masquerade of Gender in the Stories of Rhys Davies” in Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare ed. Meic Stephens (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001).
“Both in and Out of the Game: selected Anglo-Welsh Writers” Guide to Welsh Literature vol. 7, ed. M. Wynn Thomas (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003).
“Mirror Games: Self and (M)Other in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas” in ‘Echoes to the Amen’: The Achievement of R.S. Thomas, edited by Damian Walford Davies (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003).
Pimps, Punks and Pub Crooners: Anarchy and Anarchism in Contemporary Welsh Fiction’ in ‘To Hell with Culture’: Anarchism and Twentieth-Century British Literature eds. Stephen Knight and Gustav Klaus, (University of Wales Press, 2005).
Research
My research to date has focused on rediscovering neglected Welsh women writers and bringing their work back into the public domain. I have also published articles on the work of a range of twentieth-century Welsh, English, Caribbean and South African writers, approaching their work from comparative, feminist and postcolonial perspectives.
Current projects include:
Organiser of the 2008 Association for Welsh Writing in English Twentieth Annual International Conference: 'On the Edge: Margins and Peripheries in Welsh Writing.
Editor of the refereed journal, Almanac: Critical Essays on Welsh Writing in English
Organiser of the AHRC-funded, interdisciplinary Ireland-Wales Research Network.
Researching in the following areas currently: 1) travel writing in and about Wales 2) monograph on the twentieth-century Welsh prose writer, Kate Roberts 3) Wales, Ireland and modernity 4) transnational motifs in European children's literature.
Biography
Teaching Interests
Courses offered on the BA and MA programmes in English Literature, including modules on Welsh Fiction and Poetry in English, Modernisms, early twentieth-century poetry, women’s writing, Victorian children's texts and Caribbean literature.
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