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Anwen Jones

Lecturer in Theatre Studies and Theatre Studies Degree Scheme Coordinator (Welsh medium)
BA, MPhil, TAR Photograph of Anwen Jones.

Contact

Email: aej@aber.ac.uk
Office: S14 Parry Williams
Phone: 01970 621659
Fax: 01970 622831

Teaching Areas

  • Theatr Ewrop Fodern
  • Drama Iwerddon yn yr Ugeinfed ganrif
  • Theatr Cymru Gynnar a Chyfoes
  • Ysgrifennu Creadigol ar gyfer y llwyfan
  • Dadansoddi Cynhyrchiad.

Research

National theatre in Wales in the European context, French drama with a particular focus on Paul Claudel, drama and theatre in Wales and in Welsh.

Biography

Having graduated from Bristol University with a BA Honours Degree in French and English Comparative Literature and completing a PGCE course, Anwen went on to complete an MPhil at Aberystwyth; a study of the twentieth century French dramatist, Paul Claudel and his important play, L’Annonce Faite à Marie. Her first teaching post was a lecturing post at Trinity College, Carmarthen. She has now worked as a lecturer in the field of Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University for the past thirteen years. She has published on Paul Claudel and held a study day on the dramatist at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2003. She has also published in both English and Welsh on Welsh national theatre, French drama and theatre and contemporary theatre. Her book, National Theatres in Context: France, Germany, England and Wales (UWP, 2007) is her latest contribution to scholarly research in the field of Welsh drama and theatre within a European context.

Staff Publications

National Theatres in Context: France, Germany, England and Wales, University of Wales Press, 2007.

‘Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru: Hanes datblygiad hunaniaeth dramataidd Cymru fodern’ in Cof Cenedl, 23, 2008, pp.101-131.

‘Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, Cofnod Cenedl?’ in Llên Cymru, 29, 2006, pp. 110-118.

‘La Feminité Salvatrice: Paul Claudel and Olivier Py at the 2004 Edinburgh International Festival in French Cultural Studies, 10, 2005, pp. 321-335.

‘Paul Claudel’s L’Annonce faite à Marie: A Process of Visionary Revision’ in Modern Language Review,  Vol 96, Number 2, April 2001, pp. 347-360.

‘The crisis of French Symbolist Drama’ in Consciousness, Arts and Literature, Vol 1, number 3, Dec 2000.