Research and scholarship within the School of Humanities underpins the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in English, History, Media, Theatre and Performance, Writing and Media Communications...
Research and scholarship within the School of Humanities underpins the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in English, History, Media, Theatre and Performance, Writing and Media Communications. The profile of research and professional activity was strengthened in 2008 through the introduction of new areas, including Welsh Language and Translation, English and European languages, and Journalism and Broadcasting. There continues to be a comprehensive range of activity within and across the School, and there are some significant achievements in terms of research and scholarship related to pedagogical practice and also in relation to professional production,
Across the School there is a range of work which will lead to publication in the next two years. Dr. M. Miles currently has two novels with publishers – ‘Black and White’ (A Study of Eighteenth Century Slavery) and ‘Pont Wan’ (a Magic Realist piece set in 1950s Wales) and a work in progress ‘The Common Attorney’ (the study of an Eighteenth Century lawyer. Julie Brake is currently working on two major projects – a Welsh Language Thesaurus, and a dictionary of Welsh-English Medical terms (on-line). Research work on extended projects was on-going by Dr. K. Ellis (theme: ‘Women of Erddig’), Dr. R. Dover (theme: ‘That Other Shadow: Psychic Splitting and Reintegration in Late Nineteenth Century Literary Culture’, linked to teaching on Glyndŵr ’s ‘MA in English Literary Culture: 1880-1920’), and Dr D Baker (theme: Real and Symbolic Spaces). Janet Jones is currently co-editing a new textbook on public affairs for the National Council for the Training of Journalists, and Dr Leila Luukko-Vinchenzo is continuing to work on her book on Vergleich der spatialen Relationen im Deutschen und Finnischen.