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Ceri Sullivan

Yr Athro Ceri Sullivan

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Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth

Email
SullivanC3@caerdydd.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 75617
Campuses
Adeilad John Percival , Ystafell 2.21, Rhodfa Colum, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
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Rwy'n ymchwilio ac yn addysgu ar sut mae crefydd, masnach a biwrocratiaeth y Dadeni yn defnyddio technegau llenyddol i gyflawni eu gwaith, a sut, yn gyfnewid, awduron llenyddol - yn enwedig Shakespeare a'r beirdd metaffisegol - ymgysylltu â'r sectorau hyn. 

Rwyf wedi cyhoeddi chwe monograff, dau gasgliad wedi'u golygu, ac oddeutu saith deg o erthyglau, penodau a nodiadau ar y meysydd hyn.

Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n gweithio ar lyfr newydd ar sut y gall testunau ymgynghoriaeth reoli ddarparu darlleniadau defnyddiol i feirniaid Shakespeare (nid dim ond y ffordd arall), sy'n cynnwys cyn-hanes o theori ymddygiad sefydliadol. Mae llawer o destunau'r cyfnod yn manteisio ar y rhagfarnau cynhenid mewn meddwl sy'n creu amodau rhesymoldeb rhwymedig wrth wneud penderfyniadau. (rhagfarnau sydd bellach yn cael eu disgrifio gan economegwyr ymddygiadol fel hewristiaid, llwybrau byr i feddwl trwy broblem). Maent felly'n caniatáu rhywfaint o nudging, yn aml trwy greu pensaernïaeth i fanteisio ar un opsiwn dros un arall. Gellir mynd at gwnsler o'r fath fel techneg hunangymorth sy'n ddefnyddiol ac yn bleserus, gan ganiatáu i'r darllenydd fwynhau ffantasi am fod yn effeithiol.  Efallai y bydd y llyfr yn dadlau, gellir mynd at ddramâu hanes Shakespeare yn yr un modd.

Rwy'n Gyfarwyddwr Ymchwil Pwnc ENCAP ar gyfer Saesneg ac Ysgrifennu Creadigol, golygydd cyffredinol cyfres Traethodau ac Astudiaethau Cymdeithas Lloegr (cyfrolau o 2020-2024, https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association/publications/essays-and-studies/,) ac yn aelod o grŵp Diwylliannau Amgylcheddol Caerdydd,  https://cardiffsciencehumanities.org/cardiff-environmental-cultures/.

 

Cyhoeddiad

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2017

2016

2015

2014

  • Sullivan, C. 2014. Property. In: Hadfield, A., Dimmock, M. and Shinn, A. eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in the Early Modern Period. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 295-308.

2013

2012

  • Sullivan, C. 2012. Ben Jonson and Hugh Broughton. Notes and Queries 59(4), pp. 571. (10.1093/notesj/gjs186)
  • Sullivan, C. 2012. London. In: Corns, T. N. ed. The Milton Encyclopedia. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 384.
  • Sullivan, C. 2012. Westminster. In: Corns, T. N. ed. The Milton Encyclopedia. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 221-222.

2011

  • Sullivan, C. 2011. The importance of boredom in learning about the early modern. In: Conroy, D. and Clarke, D. eds. Teaching the Early Modern Period. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 222-226.
  • Sullivan, C. 2011. Supplying the city. In: Gossett, S. ed. Thomas Middleton in Context. Literature in Context Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 83-89.
  • Sullivan, C. 2011. Teaching as public engagement and impact. English Association Newsletter, pp. 5.
  • Sullivan, C. 2011. Traherne. In: Sullivan, G. A. J. et al. eds. The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature., Vol. 3. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 964-968.
  • Sullivan, C. 2011. Vaughan. In: Sullivan, G. A. J. et al. eds. The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 997-1000.

2009

2008

2007

2006

  • Sullivan, C. 2006. The art of listening in the seventeenth century. Modern Philology 104(1), pp. 34-71. (10.1086/510262)
  • Sullivan, C. 2006. Metaphysical poets. In: Kastan, D. S. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 128-129.
  • Sullivan, C. 2006. Marston. In: Kastan, D. S. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 476-478.
  • Sullivan, C. 2006. London’s early modern creative industrialists. Studies in Philology 103(3), pp. 313-328. (10.1353/sip.2006.0015)
  • Sullivan, C. 2006. Webster. In: Kastan, D. S. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 398-400.
  • Sullivan, C. 2006. Barnfield. In: Kastan, D. S. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. [.]. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 390-392.

2005

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1997

1996

1995

1994

Articles

Book sections

Books

Monographs

Ymchwil

Reviews of my books

Literature in the Public Service: Sublime Bureaucracy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Shortlisted for Best Book of 2012 and 2013, European Society for the Study of English.

The Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Reviewed as: ‘intelligent and entertaining’, ‘witty’, ‘keen sense for when the pursuit of piety veers into sardonic comedy’ (Review of English Studies 60.247); ‘extremely interesting, if stomach-churning’, ‘excellent close readings’, ‘subtle, interesting… valuable and welcome’ (MLR  104.3); ‘rich and stimulating, dense but readable’, ‘innovative, sustained, and illuminating rhetorical analyses [of] a vital subject in our intellectual history’ Rhetorica (28); ‘brilliant insights through unusual juxtaposition and deft assimilation’ (Seventeenth Century Journal  25.1); ‘expands our knowledge of theological and tropological connections in early modern devotional texts’, ‘surprising and valuable’ (Year’s Work in English Studies  89); ‘insightful... sharp… probing’ (George Herbert Journal  32.1); ‘engaging intellectual descant… lively energy… wit… conceptual daring’ (Modern Philology  110.2); ‘densely written… impressively compact… playfulness… adventurous wit’ (Notes and Queries  61.3)

The Rhetoric of Credit. Merchants in Early Modern Writing (Madison/London: Associated University Presses, 2002). Reviewed as: ‘incisive and learned’, ‘fascinating’, ‘an important book’ (Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies  4.2); ‘redresses deficienc[ies]’, ‘historically specific’, ‘disdains previous interpretations’, ‘drives home her point’ (The Historical Journal  49.4); ‘original and complex’, ‘unusually productive combination of professional skills’, ‘testing but welcome factual ballast to usual critical tendencies’ (Notes and Queries  3/2004); ‘succinct, informed… fresh’, ‘learned… and important’ (Renaissance Forum 7); ‘double expertise’, ‘fascinating’, ‘provocative and very important’ (Business History  46.1); ‘welcome corrective’, densely detailed’ (Review of English Studies  55); ‘palpable irritation [which]… is engaging, not off-putting, inspiring, not reactionary’ (Sixteenth-century Journal 34.3)

Dismembered Rhetoric. English Recusant Writing 1580‑1603 (Madison/London: Associated University Presses, 1995). Reviewed as: ‘timely… controversial… strong’, ‘intriguing and compelling’, ‘subtle, learned, and interesting’ (MLR  93.1); ‘fascinating’ (Shakespeare Quarterly ); ‘wonderful’, ‘should be received warmly and enthusiastically’, ‘densely argued’ , ‘rock solid and satisfying’ (Sixteenth-century Journal  27.2); ‘bring[s] sub-cultures into dialogue… interesting patterns’ (Studies in English Literature  36.1).

Authors at Work: the Creative Environment (English Association, Essays and Studies), intro, and co-ed. with Graeme Harper (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2009) [I am the initiator and primary editor]. Reviewed as: ‘deliciously voyeuristic’ (Guardian  15/8/09); ‘rewards curiosity’ (TLS 26/6/09)

Writing and Fantasy , co‑ed. with Barbara White (London: Longman, 1999). Reviewed as: ‘theoretically sophisticated’, ‘sureness of touch’, ‘impresses’ (Gothic Studies ); ‘outstanding in its range and breadth’; ‘far-reaching and important… fresh and interesting’, ‘none of the usual archetype-hunting and no facile claims’ (Journal of the Fantastic)

Grants awarded

  • 2017 - £2,940 British Academy-Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant
  • 2016 - £40,190 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
  • 2008 - £58,664 AHRC Knowledge Transfer Catalyst
  • 2008 - £4,176 British Academy small research grant
  • 2007 - £5,143 English Subject Centre grant
  • 2006 - £520,000 HEFCW Collaboration and Reconfiguration fund
  • 2006 - £2,000 USA Folger Library Fellowship (USA)
  • 2005 - £1,800 British Academy small research grant
  • 2004 - £4,500 English Subject Centre grant
  • 2004 - £2,200 British Academy block grant for ISHR participants (USA)
  • 2003 - £13,000 Arts and Humanities Research Board study leave
  • 2003 - £2,000 British Academy/Huntington Library fellowship (USA)
  • 2003 - £450 British Academy small research grant
  • 2000 - £10,000 Arts and Humanities Research Board study leave
  • 1997-9 - £6,000 federal UW collaboration fund
  • 1997 - £25,000 federal UW equipment fund
  • 1997-9 - £1,000 Society for Renaissance Studies
  • 1993-5 - £12,000 British Academy postgraduate award

In 2016 I will be taking up non-stipendiary visiting fellowships at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, and at St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. In 2017 I will be taking up a non-stipendiary visiting scholarshp at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.

Project application in preparation

Metaphors at work. How do literary techniques influence the working environment? Does, for instance, a firm employ the metaphors of the epic, in its accounts of heroic labour, or the revenge tragedy, in its employer/ee relationships? I am planning to bring together an inter-disciplinary and cross-career team to work on a history of working metaphors, and on a contemporary study of how these metaphors facilitate or block progress.

Addysgu

I currently teach the following modules:

  • Leaders in Shakespeare
  • Representations of Work in Early Modern Drama
  • Modern British Political Drama
  • Elizabethan Shakespeare
  • Jacobean Shakespeare
  • Talking to God in the Early Modern Period
  • Texts in Time 1500-1800

Dissertations and theses (BA, MA, and PhD):  my next project is on Metaphors at Work, and I am actively seeking students interested in exploring this area.  The question is, how do literary techniques influence the working environment? Does, for instance, a firm employ the metaphors of the epic, in its accounts of heroic labour, or the revenge tragedy, in its employer/ee relationships? I want to gather together a an inter-disciplinary and cross-career group to work on a history of working metaphors, and a contemporary study of how these metaphors facilitate or block progress. There is a large and unsatisfied demand for research by doctoral students into the impact of historical literature on contemporary life. Cardiff University has two outstanding resources in this area. Early English Books Online has a digital copy of every book published between 1473 to 1700. Special Collections (SCOLAR) has collections of national significance in physical copies of early modern histories and prescriptive manuals on how to do something (especially leadership, education, horticulture, and manners). These have not yet been read through by any researcher, for marginalia and other signs of use. I would welcome expressions of interest, at any level, in this project.

Bywgraffiad

Educated  at Cardinal Newman Catholic Comprehensive School, Rhydyfelin, and Hertford  College, University of Oxford.

First career in the City of London, with KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock, as senior charterted accountant and banking analyst, managing c.10 colleagues.

Second career in NGOs, as a Finance Director through V.S.O. for the Zambian Council for the Handicapped, managing c. 35 colleagues, and with Oxfam Head Office, as the senior overseas accountant for Mozambique (with additional field work in the Sudan, Zambia, and the DRC).

Third career in universities: Oxford, the Open University, Bangor, and here in Cardiff, teaching early modern literature and modern political drama.

Fourth career still a possibility!

Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau

Cymrawd y Gymdeithas Hanesyddol Frenhinol a'r Academi Addysg Uwch.

Aelodaethau proffesiynol

Cymdeithas Astudiaethau'r Dadeni.

Pwyllgorau ac adolygu

 

Pwyllgorau Allanol

  • Cyngor Ymchwil Ewropeaidd, adolygydd arbenigol ar gyfer ceisiadau Horizon 2020 (2017-2020)
  • JISC Llyfrau Hanesyddol, Bwrdd Cynghori (2012-19)
  • Cymdeithas Lloegr, Pwyllgor Addysg Uwch (2009-19)
  • Aelod o'r Coleg Adolygu Cymheiriaid AHRC (2004-14)
  • Asiantaeth Sicrhau Ansawdd, grŵp adolygu Datganiad Meincnod Saesneg, aelod (2014)
  • Cymdeithas Astudiaethau'r Dadeni, Aelod o'r Cyngor (hefyd 1996-03, 2005-07, 2012-18); Barnwr wedyn yn Gadeirydd Cystadleuaeth Cymrodoriaeth (2016-2017); Gwobr Barnwr Llyfr Lluosflwydd (2016)
  • Cyngor y Coleg a'r Brifysgol Saesneg, Aelod Gweithredol (2011-14)
  • International Society for History of Rhetoric, cynrychiolydd y DU (2004-08)

Pwyllgorau Mewnol

  • Senedd (2014-23)
  • Llywodraethu (2020-23)

Meysydd goruchwyliaeth

I am interested in supervising work in the following areas:

  • early modern poetry, prose, and drama
  • early modern rhetoric
  • the representation of religion (all periods)
  • the representation of trade (all periods)

To cite Raymond Williams, ‘culture is ordinary’; as Michel de Certeau argues, even banal situations can exhibit a resistant, alternative micro-politics in which individuals claim autonomy. Students who want to reconceive of creativity as a quality of ordinary people - shown in the way they produce extraordinary things in common places - are particularly welcome. Literature is not ethically superior to prescriptive management theory, but it is often more methodologically productive...