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LYNCH, PEREDUR

Professor Peredur I. Lynch is a native of Carrog in the old county of Merionethshire. After graduating in Welsh at Bangor, he was employed between 1985 and 1990 as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth. He was then appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Welsh at the University of Wales, Swansea and returned to Bangor as a lecturer in 1995. He was awarded a Chair in 2005 and served as Head of the Welsh Department between 2003 and 2006. Peredur is an expert on the Poets of the Welsh Princes and made a major contribution to Cyfres Beirdd y Tywysogion (The Poets of the Princes Series) (University of Wales Press, 1991-96), the groundbreaking critical edition of their poetry. He has published widely on many aspects of Welsh literature over the centuries and is one of four co-editors of The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (University of Wales Press, 2007).

Selected Publications:
“Problemau Prifysgol”: Saunders Lewis a Phrifysgol Cymru (University of Wales Eisteddfod Lecture) (University of Wales Registry, 1997)

Contributed to:
Ysgrifau Beirniadol XVI (contributor) (Gee Press, 1990)
Cyfres y Cymoedd: Cwm Tawe (contributor) (Gomer, 1993)
Ysgrifau Beirniadol XVIX (contributor) (Gee Press, 1993)
Gwaith Meilyr Brydydd a’i Ddisgynyddion ynghyd â dwy awdl fawl ddienw o Ddeheubarth (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 1994)
Cyfres y Cymoedd: Nedd a Dulais (contributor) (Gomer, 1994)
Gwaith Dafydd Benfras ac Eraill o Feirdd Hanner Cyntaf y Drydedd Ganrif ar Ddeg (co-editor and contributor) (University of Wales Press, 1995)
Beirdd a Thywsogion: Barddoniaeth Llys yng Nghymru, Iwerddon a’r Alban (contributor) (University of Wales Press, 1996)
Gwaith Bleddyn Fardd a Beirdd Eraill Ail Hanner y Drydedd Ganrif ar Ddeg (co-editor and contributor) (University of Wales Press, 1996)
The Welsh King and his Court (contributor) (University of Wales Press, 2000)
Cyfoeth y Testun: Ysgrifau ar Lenyddiaeth Gymraeg yr Oesoedd Canol (contributor) (University of Wales Press, 2003)
The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 2007)