Dr Dylan Foster Evans - MA (Cantab), PhD (Wal)
Overview
Position:
Senior Lecturer
Email:
FosterEvansD@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 208 74951
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74604
Extension: 74951
Location: Humanities Building
Research Interests
Dr Dylan Foster Evans's main research area is late-medieval literature. He is particularly interested in the work of the Poets of the Princes, Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Cywyddwyr up to the period of the Welsh renaissance. His work covers both textual and literary criticism, and he was one a team of editors which produced a ground-breaking digitial edition of the works of Dafydd ap Gwilym: www.dafyddapgwilym.net
Before coming to Cardiff he was a member of the Poets of the Nobility 1282-1526 project at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth. His time there resulted in two editions of fifteenth-century poetry, Gwaith Hywel Swrdwal a'i deulu (2000) and Gwaith Rhys Goch Eryri (2007) He has also published articles on medieval literature and culture in journals and series such as Dwned, Cof Cenedl, Tu Chwith, and Taliesin, and a paper on medieval satire: ‘Goganwr am Gig Ynyd’. Literary theory is another field of interest, and he has published on both post-colonial theory and ecocriticism. He also has written on contemporary poetry and was one of the adjudicators for the Crowning Competition in the Newport and District National Eisteddfod of 2004.
Teaching Profile
BA in Welsh: Year One First Language
- CY1742 Cyflwyniad i'r Gymraeg (co-ordinator)
- CY1743 Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg (contributor)
- CY1744 O Destun i Draethawd (contributor)
- CY1745 Cymru a'i Diwylliant (contributor)
BA in Welsh: Year Two and Final Year
- CY2255 Cymraeg Cyfoes (co-ordinator)
- CY3260 Cyflwyniad i Lenyddiaeth yr Oesoedd Canol (co-ordinator)
- CY2617 Y Canu Arwrol (co-ordinator)
- CY3421 Dafydd ap Gwilym (co-ordinator)
- CY3422 'Y Ganrif Fawr' (co-ordinator)
MA in Welsh
- CYD060 Hunaniaeth a gwleidyddiaeth yn llenyddiaeth Cymru, c.1300-c.1500
Publications
Selection of Publications
'On the Lips of Strangers: The Welsh Language, the Middle Ages, and Ethnic Diversity', yn Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook 10 (Colgate, 2011)
‘Adnabod Adar’, Taliesin139, 2010, pp. 111-17.
‘ “Tŵr Dewr Gwncwerwr” ("A Brave Conqueror's Tower"): Welsh Poetic Responses to the Edwardian Castles', pp. 121-8, in Diane M. Williams and John R. Kenyon (ed.), The Impact of the Edwardian Castles in Wales (Oxford, 2010).
Review of: Helen Fulton, Welsh Prophecy and English Politics in the Late Middle Ages, Sir T. H. Parry-Williams Memorial Lecture (Aberystwyth: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2008), Dwned14 (2009), pp. 93-6
Contribution to www.dafyddapgwilym.net: editor of 35 poems and author of introductory material
(Project funded by the AHRC: ‘A critical edition of the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym’, general editor Dafydd Johnston).
http://www.dafyddapgwilym.net/
‘“Talm o Wentoedd”: the Welsh language and its literature in Gwent, c. 1070–1530’, pp. 281–309, in Ralph A. Griffiths (ed.), The Gwent County History, ii: The Age of the Marcher Lordships, c. 1070–1536 (Cardiff, 2008).
(ed.), Gwaith Rhys Goch Eryri (Aberystwyth, 2007).
‘ “Cyngor y Biogen”: Ecoleg a Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg’, Llenyddiaeth Mewn Theori, 1 (2006), 41–79.
‘ “Bardd arallwlad”: Dafydd ap Gwilym a theori ôl-drefedigaethol’, pp. 42–77, in Owen Thomas (ed.), Llenyddiaeth Mewn Theori (Cardiff, 2006).
‘Murder in the Marches: Poetry and the Legitimisation of Revenge in Fifteenth-century Wales’, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 18 and 19 (2006), 42–72.
‘Gwlad y Gwn?: Cymru, y Canon a’r Dryll hyd at ddiwedd oes Elisabeth I’, pp. 3–32, in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Cof Cenedl, xvii (Llandysul, 2002).
(ed.), Gwaith Hywel Swrdwal a’i deulu (Aberystwyth, 2000).
‘Ail-lunio’r Cymry—y beirdd ar ôl methiant Glyndwr’, Taliesin, 110 (2000), 43–57.
‘Rhoi eich troed ynddi: camau cyntaf ar drywydd ffasiwn yng Nghymru’r Oesoedd Canol’, Tu Chwith, 14 (2000), 21–34.
‘“Y carl a’i trawai o’r cudd”: ergyd y gwn ar y Cywyddwyr’, Dwned, 4 (1998), 75–105.
‘Y Bardd a’i Farf: y Traddodiad Barfol’, Dwned, 2 (1996), 11–29
‘Goganwr am Gig Ynyd’: The Poet as Satirist in Medieval Wales (Aberystwyth, 1996).
(ed.) ‘Gwaith Llywelyn Ddu ab y Pastard’, pp. 169–212, in Ann Parry Owen (ed.), Gwaith Llywelyn Brydydd Hoddnant, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Hillyn ac Eraill (Aberystwyth, 1996).
Research
Research Project
From January 2008, Dylan Foster Evans will be part of an innovative and exciting project funded by the AHRC to prepare a digital edition and study of the works of the fifteenth-century poet Guto'r Glyn.
Postgraduate Students
Current Research Students
Hanna Hopwood: 'Y Ferch ym Marddoniaeth Gymraeg y Cyfnod 1300-1600' (joint supervisor with Prof Sioned Davies)