News Archive 2010-2012

The following news items are archived from the Department's New Page.

Dylan Thomas - Radio 4's Great Lives

Damian Walford Davies, Head of Department, could be heard in last week’s Great Lives on Radio 4.  Dylan Thomas was proposed by Welsh poet Owen Sheers in this specially recorded edition at Bristol's More Than Words Listening Festival. Includes Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood. Matthew Parris presents.  Listen to the podcast -
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Terry Hetheringon Young Writers Award 2012

Terry Hetherington, who died in 2007, was a poet, short story writer and Welsh Academi Member.  In association with the Dylan Thomas Centre, the Terry Hetherington Writer’s Bursary was established to award a young writer aged 16-23.  We are delighted that Grace Gay, an undergraduate student of Creative Writing with us here at Aber, will see two of her pieces, a poem Remember All I gave, and a prose piece, Waves, published in the award anthology.  The anthology will be entitled Cheval and will be published in paperback by Parthian Press. Congratulations Grace! (Posted 3 April 2012)

Successful 2012 Sixth Form Conference

Owen Sheers On Monday 19 March 2012 the Department of English & Creative Writing hosted its annual Sixth Form Conference, attended by 80 students from five local schools. The conference aimed to give these young people a sense of the Department’s special environment, its combination of academic and creative culture; and in this, according to a reliable source, it was a great success. After a brief introduction by Professor Damian Walford Davies, the opening speaker was Dr Jayne Archer, whose presentation on King Lear brilliantly conveyed some of the intellectual excitement and challenges of studying English at university.  We were then delighted to be able to introduce Owen Sheers (pictured) who gave a fascinating talk on his novel Resistance and on his role in its film adaptation (of which he showed some clips). A whole variety of issues were raised by his talk and the discussion afterwards – to do with the processes and constraints of creative work, both what inspires writing and how it can be achieved – that made the occasion unforgettable. We are immensely grateful to Owen Sheers for his contribution, and we very much wish to maintain links with him in the future.   After a brief lunchtime tour of the university campus with student volunteers, our visitors returned for the afternoon session. This, the grand finale of the conference, was a talk by Professor Damian Walford Davies on Blake and the Romantic Imagination, a passionate meditation on the cultural and political significance of that great artist and poet. This was an apt conclusion to a day that had highlighted the creative possibilities and imaginative energy of the Department. Well done to those involved in organizing and delivering such a successful event. (Posted 23 March 2012)

Conference News: National Poet of Wales to speak at Postgrad Conference in April

We are delighted to announce that Gillian Clarke will be attending the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing's annual Postgraduate Conference held at the National Library of Wales.

She will be one of the plenary speakers at the conference and will be giving a reading of her poetry and answering questions about her work and her public role.  Gillian was named National Poet of Wales in 2008 and is the President of Ty Newydd, the Welsh Writers Centre, which she co-founded in 1990. In 2010 she was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and in 2011 she received an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of Glamorgan.  Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain and has been translated into ten languages. Her recent work includes: A Recipe for Water, and a collection of prose, At the Source. At the conference she will be reading poems from her new collection, Ice, which is to be published in October 2012.

Gillian's plenary address is just one event scheduled as part of the Department of English and Creative Writing's 2012 Postgraduate Conference: "Are We There Yet? Remapping Literary Imagination".   Other plenary speakers this year will include Wales Book of the Year 2011 author, Ned Thomas, and the head of Aberystwyth University’s English and Creative Writing department, Professor Damian Walford Davies. Further information  2012 Postgraduate Conference(Posted 28 February 2012)

Former Student Wins Literary Prize

Congratulations to Kate Hamer, former MA student in Creative Writing, who has been awarded First Prize in the distinguished Rhys Davies Short Story Competition.  See Full Story. (Posted 28 February 2012)

PhD Student's Latest Novel features in New Welsh Review

Eliza Granville, pictured, is a PhD student of Creative Writing in the department.  Look out for an extract of Eliza's latest novel, Narrenturm, in the latest issue of New Welsh Review, number 95 out on 1 March.  For more about Eliza's work see Amazon.  (Posted 28 February 2012)

Annual Postgraduate Conference, 25-27 April 2012 

The English and Creative Writing department’s annual postgraduate conference, this year entitled ‘Are We There Yet? Remapping Literary Imagination’, will take place on 25- 27 April 2012 at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. 

This three day conference will bring together academics, creative writers and students to discuss the following questions:

Where are we from? Where are we going?  How does literature explore the depiction of physical and mental journeys? How do minority experiences and new perspectives function within the evolving landscape of literature?  This terrain is constantly shifting as our world continues to transition from localised cultures into a global society. How do we define the boundaries of genre when the borders themselves are in a state of flux? What is the impact of these changes on the production of literature and literary theory?  Call for papers and details - see 2012 Postgraduate Conference(Posted 22 February 2012)

Aberystwyth - Texas Doctoral Exchange

The Department of English and Creative Writing is now inviting applications for the Aberystwyth-Texas doctoral exchange. The exchange is an exciting opportunity for the department’s PhD students to experience a different learning environment by spending a semester in the Department of English, Texas A&M University.

Students will be supervised by a member of the English Department with compatible research interests, have the opportunity to deliver a paper on their own research and to contribute to some undergraduate seminars. The Department at Texas teaches creative writing and literary studies. (See  Texas Exchange Information and Texas Exchange Application Form  - competition open only to  existing Phd students).

Opened in 1876 as Texas' first public institution of higher learning, Texas A&M University is a research-intensive flagship university with 38,000-plus undergraduates and more than 9,000 graduate students studying in over 250 degree programs in 10 colleges.  The Department of English at Texas A & M University has played an important role on campus since the University's founding in 1876, when "Languages and Literature" was designated as one of the original four courses of study.   Now in its second century, the Department has 90 faculty, 100 graduate students, and 700 undergraduate majors, and is built upon a long tradition of study in literature and language, writing and reading, culture and interpretation. The Department of English maintains a tradition of excellence in research and teaching at all levels. (Posted 22 February 2012)

Undergrad Shortlisted for Young Writers' Award

Congratulations!  2nd Year undergraduate student, Beth Garden, has been shortlisted for the WICKED Young Writers’ Award for her poem The Moon.  The  WICKED Young Writers' Award recognises excellence in writing, encourages creativity and helps develop writing talent in young people.  The main judges for the 2011 award are Michael McCabe, Executive Producer of WICKED, Michael Morpurgo, former Children's Laureate and bestselling author and William Fiennes, author and founder of First Story. (Posted 21 December 2011)

London Festival Fringe Award for  Tiffany Atkinson

We are delighted to announce that the LONDON FESTIVAL FRINGE has nominated Tiffany Atkinson  for the London Poetry Award 2012.    The London Awards for Art and Performance are the country's most expansive awards and recognise artists and performers across many art-forms.  Nominated artists are considered to have made an outstanding contribution to their art. The shortlist will be announced in late Spring 2012 and awards will take place in central London in the summer of 2012.  Well done, Tiffany! (Posted 21 December 2011)

Leverhulme Award: “Women’s Poetry 1400-1800 in English, Irish, Scots, Scots Gaelic and Welsh”

Dr Sarah Prescott, as Principal Applicant, will be directing this fascinating new project for which an important Leverhulme Project Grant has been awarded.  Over the next three years she will be working with fellow scholars at the University of Edinburgh, National University of Ireland, Galway and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth.

Commenting on the project Dr Prescott said:  "The proposed research will provide a major new literary history of women's poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales from 1400 to 1800 in Welsh, Gaelic, Scots, Scots Gaelic and English through a fully edited anthology with translations and a critical study jointly written by the specialists engaged on the project. The last twenty years has seen an explosion of interest in pre-1800 British women's writing. However, there is currently still no comparative study of women’s poetry across linguistic and national boundaries in this period. This is due primarily to thedifficulty of finding a single scholar with the appropriate linguistic expertise and interest across the Anglophone, Irish, Scottish and Welsh contexts of women’s writing, but also a result of the disciplinary division between the study of Celtic and Anglophone cultures. The primary aim of this project is thus to cross these linguistic and disciplinary boundaries to understand for the first time the ways in which women’s poetic production operated and survived in multiple geographical locations and comparative linguistic and cultural contexts. By engaging in the archival recovery of women poets, the over-arching aim of the project is to provide a revisionary account of women’s literary activity which seeks to overturn the critical commonplaces of early women’s writing." (Posted 13 December 2011)

MA Student Wins Faculty Prize

We are delighted to learn that Lowri Emlyn, student of Creative Writing has just been awarded the University Faculty of Arts Prize. (Posted 13 December 2011)

Critical Acclaim for New Poetry Collection

Congratulations to Tiffany Atkinson.  Tiffany's second collection Catulla et al was given the lead poetry review in Saturday's Guardian, 20 November. Beginning by describing the book as a 'smart, sardonic and vulnerable updating of Catullus', Patrick McGuinness goes on to say that 'Atkinson's versions are in the finest tradition of creative adaptation: keeping the originals as ballast, but unafraid to sail off on their own tangents.'  Atkinson's first collection, Kink and Particle, appeared in 2006; this, her second, has her familiar quickness of mind, her spiky, often self-lacerating wit, and her snappy, vibrant diction. Catulla's is a world of decadent excess and morning-after desolation, of hangovers of the moral as well as the physical kind; of reality TV, suburban infidelity, jealousy and besottedness. – Patrick McGuinness.  The collection is published by Bloodaxe Books. (Posted 21 November 2011)

BOOK LAUNCH - Thursday

Honno Press invites you to the launch of Mysterious Death of Miss Austen – a new book by popular local writer, Lindsay Ashford:  Thursday 24 November, 18.00 in the Aberystwyth Arts Centre Bookshop. (Posted 22 November 2011)

Chawton House Lecture

Dr Sarah Prescott will be presenting a lecture at the Chawton House Library, Alton, Hampshire - "Home of Early English Women's Writing" - on 6 December.  Sarah will explore a range of Anglophone Welsh women writers from the eighteenth century in this unique lecture - the last in the Library's series for 2011.  See poster  (Posted 22 November 2011)

NEW DEGREE SCHEME: BA English and World Literatures

The Department of English and Creative Writing is very pleased to announce the launch of a new degree scheme: BA English and World Literatures, to start next academic year 2012-13.  Students taking this dynamic new degree will complete their studies with a truly global perspective on literary studies in English.  The English and World Literatures (EWL) degree allows students to explore the work of leading international writers from Africa, Asia, Australasia, the Caribbean and North America, as well the most urgent literary voices from the British and Irish archipelago.  EWL offers an exciting combination of 'traditional' English degree and a course of study that reveals the diversity of English-language writing emerging from global locations of culture. (Posted 18 October 2011)

Poetry Competition

Julia Roberts’ poem, ‘A boxed set of seagulls’, was a runner up in the 2011 Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition judged by poet and editor, Professor Jo Shapcott of Royal Holloway College.  The poem is published in the October edition of Mslexia, the magazine for women who write.

Julia, who is now a PhD student in the department, worked on the poem as part of her MA here at Aber.  Jo Shapcott said, 'Julia Roberts’ poem, ‘A boxed set of seagulls’, was only two small stanzas of eight lines each, capturing the resonance of the holiday gift and the difficulty of choosing the right one. Like Crusoe’s knife in the Bishop poem, they ‘reek of meaning’, but can’t touch the real experience sketched beautifully in the last four lines.' (Posted 12 October 2011)

Another success for PhD Student

Creative writing PhD student Tyler Keevil has been shortlisted for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize 2011 for his debut novel Fireball (Parthian Books). This award, open to novels which were eligible for the Booker Prize but not shortlisted for it, is voted for by visitors to the Guardian website. The six shortlisted books will be reviewed on the  site and readers will debate their merits before a final vote in October.  It’s the second success for Fireball recently, following its longlisting for the Wales Book of the Year Award (see below). Tyler is currently working on a second novel as part of his PhD. (Posted 19 August 2011)

An Invitation to Open the Vaults

On Tuesday 23rd August, a one-day symposium - 'Opening the Vaults' - is being held at Gloddaith Hall, (St. David's College), Llandudno; one of the ancestral residences of the Mostyn family.  The event will revolve around current studies of Welsh families and their archives c.1500-1850.  The prospective presenters range from archivists and art-dealers to doctoral candidates and university lecturers whereas presentation topics will focus on a wide variety of themes including portraiture, creative writing, conspicuous consumption, Welsh-language poetry, slavery, Puritanism and archival issues.  We would welcome a large audience drawn from the IMEMS community.   (Posted 6 July 2011)

Scottish Retreat

Lecturet and Poet, Tiffany Atkinson has been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship.  Hawthornden Castle is an international retreat for writers and stands on a secluded crag overlooking the valley of the river North Esk, just to the south of Edinburgh. The view is impressive, as is the silence surrounding the glen.  Just what's needed to refresh the creative spirit at the end of the academic calendar.  (Posted 24 June 2011)

Chawton House Library Fellowship

The Centre for Women's Writing and Literary Culture is delighted to announce that doctoral student Mary Chadwick has been granted a Chawton House Library Fellowship for Autumn/Winter 2011.

Chawton House Library holds a collection of books focusing on women's writing in English from 1600 to 1830. Set in the home of Jane Austen’s brother, the library offers a unique opportunity to study texts in a peaceful, beautiful and supportive setting.

Mary will spend November and December 2011 working with the library's collection of late eighteenth-century novels. She will focus on those written by women and set in Wales, as part of her AHRC-funded PhD research into the literary pursuits and representations of the Welsh gentry. During her time at Chawton, Mary will present a paper based on her research and may contribute a short piece of work to the library’s journal The Female Spectator. (Posted 22 June 2011)

Fellowship at Wolfson College

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Hutton who will be taking up a visiting fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge for the Michaelmas Term commencing this September. (Posted 22 June 2011)

Leverhulme Research Fellowship

Senior Lecturer, Dr Martin Padget has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to begin work on a critical biography of Paul Strand, one of the leading photographers and creative intellectuals of the 20th Century. (Posted 11 May 2011)

Launch of new Research Centre

The official launch of the Centre for Women’s Writing and Literary Culture (CWWLC) will take place at The Drwm, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth on 31 May 2011

After introductions the Centre’s Inaugural Annual Lecture, in collaboration with the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), will be presented Professor Margaret J. M. Ezell, Distinguished Professor and Sara and John Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts, Texas A& M University. The title of lecture is Seventeenth-Century Female Author Portraits, Or, The Company She Keeps.

The afternoon programme includes: poetry readings from Gwyneth Lewis and Alicia Stubbersfield, a lecture entitled 50 rooms of their own: Chawton House Library and Jane Austen in 2011 by Dr Gillian Dow of the Chawton House Library, University of Southampton and a presentation of plans for future collaboration between the library and the CWWLC by and Stephen Lawrence (Chief Executive, Chawton House Library) and Dr Rebecca Davies (Aberystwyth University).  Honno Press will generously donate a collection of books to the Centre to mark the launch.  (Posted 4 May 2011

Nomination

Congratulations to Tyler Keevil, postgraduate student of Creative Writing, who has been longlisted for the Wales Book of the Year for his first novel, Fireball.  Tyler was delighted at the nomination: "I’m very grateful that readers have taken to ‘Fireball.’  It’s a pretty weird book, really – about a couple of misfits from suburban Vancouver – and I had no idea how people would react when it came out.  But the response has been super positive.  I’ve had a lot of support along the way – from my editor Lucy Llewellyn, of course, and also my teachers at Aberystwyth, most notably Matthew Francis (who’s currently supervising my PhD).  I don’t think any of us expected this fortuitous turn of events, and it’s both exciting and humbling to have made the longlist for Wales Book of the Year." (Posted 20 April 2011)

Wednesday 6th April 2011

Dr Ivan Hristov of the Bulgarian Academy of Science gave a paper entitled 'The Dragon's Wedding: A Mythological Motif in Bulgarian Literary Modernism'

Literary scholar and poet, Ivan Hristov, is visiting Aberystwyth from Sofia.  He is a specialist on 1920s Modernism and a prize-winning poet: his first book of poetry, Sbogom devetnajsti vek (Farewell To the 19th Century, 2001) won the prestigious 2002 Southern Spring award for the best debut book. His second collection, Bdin (2004) won the 2006 Svetlostrui Prize for poetry.  Dr Hristov is also a leading Bulgarian literary critic.

Centre for Romantic Studies: Landor Lecture

Professor Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford), recently delivered the third ‘Landor’ Lecture on: Jane Austen, Power Relations and Social Change.

An expert in Romantic and contemporary poetry, Professor Stafford is author of The Last of the Race: The Growth of a Myth from Milton to Darwin (Oxford, 1994), Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish and English Poetry: From Burns to Heaney (Oxford, 2000), and most recently Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry (Oxford, 2010).

Poem by Creative Writing Tutor chosen as Guardian Poem of the Week

Jasmine Donahaye’s poem 'The Bus to Ramallah' was chosen by Carol Rumens for her weekly online poetry column in The Guardian.  Find out more about Jasmine and her work and read her poem.

Head of Department made FRSA

Professor Diane Watt, Head of the Department of English and Creative Writing, has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. The RSA combines thought leadership with social innovation to further human progress. Building on a 250 year history as a beacon for enlightenment values, it undertakes influential and varied research projects and host the UK’s most ambitious free lecture series. See  http://www.thersa.org/. (Posted 28 January 2011)

The Wye Valley: Romantic Representations, 1640-1830

The aim of this international conference – held on the banks of the Wye at Tintern, with views over to the abbey ruins – is to revisit one of Britain’s paradigmatic cultural sites: the Wye Valley. See more details and call for papers.  (Posted 28 January 2011)

Location, Reception and Identity: Welsh Women's Writing in English 2000 - Present Day

11 March 2011.  This conference seeks to ‘take stock’ of the state of Welsh women’s writing in the decade after devolution, and explore the ways in which the issues of Welsh identity and heritage, Welsh women’s writing and Welsh writing in English intersect.  See more details and call for papers. (Posted 21 January 2011)

New Horizons: Crossing the Borderlands of the Humanities

This year's Postgraduate Conference entitled New Horizons: Crossing the Borderlands of the Humanities will take place on 11-13 May 2011.  With the rise of interdisciplinary criticisms, new and exciting light has been shed on the humanities, whether new avenues into past or contemporary literature, art or history, new forms of fiction and poetry, or blended methodologies and criticisms. This conference will explore various ways that the humanities might approach this new and open territory.  For further information, the call for papers and a poster go to New Horizons. (Posted 21 January 2011)

Sarah Hall Shortlisted

We are delighted that former student, Sarah Hall, has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.  She has been a regular and welcome visitor to the department and, earlier this year, contributed to our Sixth Form Conference.  Read more about Sarah Hall.  (Posted 17 November 2010)

Congratulations to PhD student

Creative writing student, Seth Clabough, has been signed up, on the strength of his PhD novel, All Things Await, by prestigious New York agency InkWell Management.  InkWell represent a wide range of prominent writers including Robert Harris, Lionel Shriver, Brian Cox and Simon Schama. (Posted 15 October 2010)

Department in 6th place in NSS 2010

The  Department of English and Creative Writing is one of the top 6 University departments of English Studies according to the 2010 National Student Survey. 96% of students were satisfied overall with their course according to the poll. For more information go to unistats.direct.gov.uk. (Posted 6 September)

First Aberystwyth PhD under new powers

In a graduation ceremony on 13 July, Stephen Wilson, a creative writing student in poetry, received the first PhD to be awarded by Aberystwyth University.  Hitherto, degrees were awarded by the University of Wales; full degree-awarding powers were granted during 2009-10. Stephen’s thesis, Heritage, was completed last year and collection of poems Fluttering Hands was published by Greenwich Exchange in 2008.   Isaac Rosenberg, a short study of the First World War poet, was also published by Greenwich Exchange in its 'Student Guide Literary Series' this year. (Posted 21 July 2010)

International conference a resounding success

Recycling Myths Inventing Nations , held at Gregynog 14-16 July 2010, was a wonderful opportunity for scholars from around the globe to share their research and expertise. Bringing together over seventy academics from 20 countries, spanning five continents this was a genuinely international event which promises to be the starting point for future collaborations and further work in the area of myth and national identity. For further details about the conference see www.aber.ac.uk/myth2010 (Posted 21 July)

Award-winning poetry

Reader in the Department, Richard Marggraf Turley, has won the 2010 Wales Book of the Year "People's Choice" award for his poetry collection, Wan-Hu's Flying Chair (Salt 2009).  Richard is pictured here at the Award Ceremony with Karen Price, Arts Correspondent with the Western Mail (copyright Academi/Emyr Young). (Posted 8 July 2010)

Major Research Grant Awarded

Congratulations to Dr Damian Walford Davies, Reader, on the award of a prestigious British Academy grant.  Damian said,  "I was delighted to receive a 16-month British Academy Research Development Award (BARDA) to complete my 70,000-word half of the co-written fourth volume of The Oxford Literary History of Wales: Welsh Writing in English, 1914–2009. This is the most comprehensive and ambitious history of Welsh-language and anglophone literary production ever attempted, of which I am General Editor. The grant is also excellent news for the increasingly lively and mobile discipline of Welsh Writing in English; my colleague, Dr Sarah Prescott (also part of the OLHW team), was the recipient last year of a BARDA award for a project exploring the earlier contours of Wales’s anglophone writing."  Read more about Damian's research project here - Damian-research project . (Posted 1 July).

TOP IN WALES - Guardian University Guide 2011

The Guardian has published its University Guide for 2011 and Aber comes top in Wales and with some great scores compared to universities right across the UK.  Check it out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2010/jun/04/university-guide-english(Posted 10 June)

Recent Poetry Performance

Having taken a highly successful son et lumière poetry performance to the Guardian Hay on Wye Literary Festival last year, Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley were invited back to Hay in 2010 with their latest poetry event. In front of a sell-out evening audience, Damian and Richard presented Uncovered Beasts and Wanton Troopers, integrating image and sound with strange songs from the wood . . ..  (Posted 8 June 2010)

MA student's story on Radio 4

Congratulations to Creative Writing MA student Math Bird, who has had one of his short stories accepted for radio broadcast as part of a BBC Wales series of three.  Math’s A Giant’s Tears, read by Craig Ryder, will be on Radio 4 on Thursday 24 June at 15.30.  The other two stories, by Niall Griffiths and Jane Saotome, are on Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 June at 15.30. (Posted 4 June 2010)

Columbia University Professorship

Professor Sarah Hutton has been invited to be Gildersleeve Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York for the Spring Semester 2011. This prestigious professorship is intended to bring visiting scholars, preferably women from abroad, to Barnard College http://www.barnard.edu/.  Gildersleeve Professors typically come to Barnard for a single week in which they deliver the traditional public lecture, and meet classes or informal student groups. Barnard College, was founded in 1889 to provide higher education for women in New York City at a time when American universities denied entrance to women. Today Barnard retains its commitment to women’s higher education in partnership with Columbia University. (Posted 2 June 2010)

PhD students' success

The winner of the 2010 LBA Prize for Fiction  is Seth Clabough. Second place went to David Towsey, and third to Brandi Mantha. Seth receives a £250 prize and will have the opportunity to meet up with Luigi Bonomi, founder-director of LBA (LBA Literary Agency), later in the year.   (Posted 25 May 2010)

Industry Recognition for Honorary Fellow

We are delighted that Luigi Bonomi, founder-director of LBA (LBA Literary Agency) and Honorary Fellow of this Department, was awarded the title of Literary Agent of the Year at this year's British Book Awards on 17 May.  (Posted 25 May 2010)

Filmed Poetry Reading

Damian Walford Davies's poetry collection, Suit of Lights, has been  chosen by the Wales Literature Exchange as one of its 10 ‘Bookshelf’ titles (titles which ‘represent the best in contemporary writing from Wales’) for promotion in Europe in 2010; for the promotional film, see http://www.cyfnewidfalen.org/authors.cfm?lan=e&switch=dsp&author_id=215(Posted 14 May)

Prizewinner

Congratulations to Dr Martin Padget has won won the Arthur Miller Centre Prize at the annual conference of the British Association for American Studies at the University of East Anglia for his essay 'Native Americans, the Photobook and the Southwest: Ansel Adams's and Mary Austin's Taos Pueblo'. The prize is awarded annually to the best article of the year on an American subject by a member of the British Association for American Studies.  (Posted 14 May 2010)