List Of Writers

WILLIAMS, DANIEL G.

Website: http://www.swan.ac.uk/english/staff/Daniel
Email: Daniel.G.Williams@swansea.ac.uk

Daniel G. Williams was born in Aberystwyth and studied at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. He is now Lecturer in English and Assistant Director of CREW at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is particularly 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.

Some of his recent articles have appeared (in English and Welsh) on the relationship between W.B. Yeats  and the Pan-Celtic movement in the 1890s, on Dylan Thomas and American literature, and on the relationship between modernism and nationalism in early twentieth century Welsh and African American writing. Daniel was on AHRC funded research leave from 2004-5 completing a study of cultural connections between African Americans and the Welsh. It will appear in late 2006 as Transatlantic Exchange: African Americans and the Welsh 1845-1945 in the celebrated CREW series of monographs published by the University of Wales Press. Daniel is a Member of Academi.

Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Arnold to Du Bois (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), was on the Wales Book of the Year 2007 Long List.

Selected Publications:
Who Speaks for Wales: Nation, Culture, Identity (University of Wales Press, 2003)
Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Arnold to Du Bois (Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
Transatlantic Exchanges: African Americans and the Welsh 1845-1945 (University of Wales Press, 2008)

Contributed to:
Beyond the Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts - Essays for M Wynn Thomas at 60 (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 2004)