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Daniel Williams (Swansea University Michael )
Daniel Williams teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the fields of Welsh, Irish and African American literatures. He is Assistant Director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales and is particulay interested in the ways in which national and ethnic identities are manifested in literature, in the inter-relationships between literary traditions, and in the development of comparative approaches to literature.  From 1995-7 he was a Frank Knox Fellow in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures and the Du Bois Institute for African American Studies at Harvard University. He was also a member of the first 'Longfellow Seminar in American literatures in languages other than English,' contributing to the volume American Babel. He is the editor of a collection of Raymond Williams's writings on Wales, Who Speaks for Wales: Nation, Culture, Identity (University of Wales Press, 2003), and his most recent publication is Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Matthew Arnold to W. E. B. Du Bois (Edinburgh University Press, 2006).  His Transatlantic Exchange: African Americans and the Welsh 1845-1945 will appear in 2008 in the celebrated CREW series of monographs published by the University of Wales Press.

Mae Daniel Williams yn dysgu cyrsiau ar lên Saesneg Cymru, llên Saesneg Iwerddon a llenyddiaeth Affro-Americanaidd. Ef yw Dirprwy Gyfarwyddwr y Ganolfan Ymchwil i Lên ac Iaith Saesneg Cymru. Mae ganddo ddiddordeb arbennig yn y cysylltiad rhwng llenyddiaeth a chenedligrwydd ac mae'n awyddus i ddatblygu dulliau cymharol o astudio llenyddiaethau Cymru.

Yn 1995-7 roedd yn Gymrawd Frank Knox ym Mhrifysgol Harvard, â chysylltiad a'r Adrannau Celtaidd ac Affro-Americanaidd yno. Bu'n aelod o'r 'Longfellow Seminar' ar lenyddiaeth amlieithog yr Unol Daleithiau, ac mae llên Cymry America yn un o'i feysydd ymchwil.

Yn 2003 gwelwyd cyhoeddi ei gasgliad o ysgrifau Raymond Williams ar Gymru , Who Speaks for Wales: Nation, Culture, Identity (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 2003), ac mae ei gyfrol Ethnicity and Cultural Authority wedi ei enwebu ar restr hir llyfr y flwyddyn 2007.
daniel.g.williams@swansea.ac.uk

Assistant Organizers

Kate Gibbs (Swansea University)
Kate Gibbs is an undergraduate student at Swansea University and is due to graduate this summer. She has followed courses on African American Literature and Welsh Writing and Irish Literature and has developed an interest in minority literatures and is interested in debates surrounding national identities and cultural appropriation.

Myfyriwr israddedig yw Kate, a fydd yn graddio yn Haf 2007. Mae hi wedi dilyn cyrsaiu ar lenyddiaethau Affro-Americanaidd a Chymreig yn ystod ei chwrs, ac wedi meithrin diddordeb mewn llenyddiaethau lleiafrifol.
309159@swansea.ac.uk

Wendy Hayes-Jones (Swansea Institute of Higher Education)
Wendy Hayes-Jones is a Senior Lecturer in English at the Swansea Institute, University of Wales. Her research interests are African American literature and the field of spirituality and literature. She is currently completing her PhD thesis in the paradox of margin and ethnicity in the works of Ishmael Reed.
wendy.hayes-jones@sihe.ac.uk

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