Dr Matthew Jarvis
Research Assistant
BA (York) MA (York) PhD (Wales)
Contact
Email: matthew.jarvis@aber.ac.uk
Office: A7
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628731
Personal Web Site: http://www.matthew-jarvis.co.uk/
Responsibilities
Matthew is Research Assistant for the research project "Devolved Voices: Welsh Poetry in English since 1997"
Research
Matthew’s research focuses on the development of Welsh poetry in English since the 1960s and on British avant-garde poetry of the same period. He is particularly interested in environmental approaches to literature and in ideas about the literary construction of Welsh space and place.
At Aberystwyth, he is working as part of the research team for the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Devolved Voices: Welsh Poetry in English since 1997’, led by Professor Peter Barry.
Matthew is also the Anthony Dyson Fellow in Poetry in the School of Cultural Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
Additional Interests
Matthew is a Research Associate of Swansea University's Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW). He is a full member of the Welsh Academy. He serves on the English-Language Grants Panel of the Welsh Books Council, on the Members Committee of the Welsh Academy, and on the Advisory Body of the National Library of Wales. He is co-Chair of the Association for Welsh Writing in English and reviews editor for the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English
Staff Publications
Matthew has written the books Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry (University of Wales Press, 2008) and Ruth Bidgood (in the University of Wales Press ‘Writers of Wales’ series, 2012). A third volume, which will bring together a selection of his essays about Welsh poetry in English, will be published in 2013 by Parthian. His pamphlet Becoming ‘Prifardd of English-speaking Wales’: The Reception of R. S. Thomas in the 1960s and Early 1970s was published by Trivium in 2009. He has also written numerous essays and reviews.