Prof Matthew Jarvis

BA (York), MA (York), PhD (Wales)

I am a Research Associate of Swansea University's Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, an Associate Member of Aberystwyth University’s David Jones Centre, and a full member of the Welsh Academy.

At Aberystwyth, I have previously worked as part of the research team on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Devolved Voices: Welsh Poetry in English since 1997, led by Professor Peter Barry.

Since September 2007, I have also been Anthony Dyson Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

Module Coordinator

• AB2 Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English (EN30420)
• AB2 Research and Project Planning (ENM3020)

• AB1 Abroad Year Credits (ENS0160)
• AB1 Abroad Year Credits (ENS0060)
• AB1 Adventures with Poetry (WR22120)
• AB1 Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s) (EN33620)
• AB1 American Literature 1800-2000 (EN11220)
• AB2 Ancestral Voices (EN10220)
• AB1 Beginning Creative Writing Part 1 (WR11020)
• AB2 Beginning Creative Writing Part 2 (WR11120)
• AB2 Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis (EN21120)
• AB1 Crisis Writing (WR31820)
• AB1 Critical Practice (EN10120)
• AB1 Critical Practice (EN11320)
• AB1 Designing Criminological Research (PGM3710)
• AB1 Dulliau Darllen (MOR0510)
• AB2 Grants Development Workshops (PGM2510)
• AB1 Haunting Texts (EN30820)
• AB1 How to Organise a Conference (PGM8110)
• AB2 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change (EN19920)
• AB2 Introduction to Poetry (WL10420)
• AB2 Leadership for Researchers (PGM1910)
• AB1 Literary Geographies (EN21020)
• AB1 Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues (EN20120)
• AB2 Literatue and Climate in the Nineteenth Century (EN21220)
• AB1 Literature And The Sea (WL11420)
• AB1 Literature and Human Rights (ENM3220)
• AB1 Literature since the '60s (EN22920)
• AB1 Manuscript Skills: Post Medieval Palaeographic and Diplomatic (PGM1210)
• AB2 Modes in Contemporary Poetry (WRM6420)
• AB2 Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now (WL11920)
• AB2 Philosophy and Contemporary Culture (PGM6210)
• AB2 Place and Self (EN22120)
• AB2 Poetry After Darwin (ENM3320)
• AB2 Post-Colonial African Literature in English (EN38120)
• AB1 Postwar American Fiction (ENM1220)
• AB1 Practice based research skills in Art and Design (PGM0010)
• AB1 Principles of Research Design (PGM0210)
• AB2 Public Engagement and Impact (PGM1610)
• AB2 Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (0310) (PGM0310)
• AB2 Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (0720) (PGM0720)
• AB2 Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (0810) (PGM0810)
• AB2 Quantitative Data Collection and Analysis (for social scientists) (PGM1010)
• AB2 Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing (ENM0220)
• AB1 Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature (WL10120)
• AB1 Reading Theory / Reading Text (EN30120)
• AB2 Reading Ulysses (ENM3120)
• AB1 Reading and Writing Development Group (PGM2610)
• AB1 Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now (WL30620)
• AB2 Representing Disability: Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century (ENM3720)
• AB1 Research Seminar Skills in Physical Sciences (PGM5410)
• AB1 Research Seminar Skills in the Life Sciences (PGM2410)
• AB1 Research Skills and Personal Development (Arts and Humanities) (2210) (PGM2210)
• AB1 Research Skills and Personal Development (Science) (2310) (PGM2310)
• AB1 Research Skills in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science (PGM2010)
• AB2 Research and Project Planning (ENM3020)
• AB1 Romantic Radical Cultures (ENM1520)
• AB1 Sgiliau Ymchwil a Datblygiad Personol (MOR2210)
• AB1 Skills in Bioinformatics for Biologists (PGM2810)
• AB1 Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences (PGM3510)
• AB1 Statistics in context: collecting, handling and presenting data (PGM0910)
• AB1 Subject Specific Research Skills (PGM6310)
• AB1 Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction (WR21120)
• AB1 Texts that made the Middle Ages: Latin for postgraduates (PGM3610)
• AB2 The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920a (EN31320)
• AB2 Theoretical Foundations of Research in Law and Criminology (PGM2710)
• AB2 Using Manuscript Sources for Medieval Studies: palaeography and diplomatic (PGM3410)
• AB1 Victorian Childhoods (EN30320)
• AB1 Ways of Reading (PGM0410)
• AB2 We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present (WL10820)
• AB1 Women, Fiction and Female Community, 1660-1792 (ENM1620)
• AB1 Writer as Practitioner 1 (WRM6140)
• AB2 Writer as Professional (WRM6620)
• AB1 Writer as Scholar (WRM6320)
• AB1 Writing Crime Fiction (WR32420)
• AB2 Writing Horror (WR31920)
• AB2 Writing Music (WR32620)
• AB2 Writing Selves (WR20620)
• AB1 Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780 (EN28720)
• AB1 Writing and Place (WR32120)
• AB2 Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English (EN30420)
• AB1 Writing your first Journal Article (PGM6410)

Lecturer

• AB1 Adventures with Poetry (WR22120)
• AB1 Independent Research Project (WL30140)
• AB1 Literary Geographies (EN21020)
• AB1 Ways of Reading (PGM0410)

Moderator

• AB1 Haunting Texts (EN30820)
• AB1 Literature since 1945 (EN22920)
• AB1 Postwar American Fiction (ENM1220)

• Wednesday 10:00-11:00

I have written the monographs Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry (University of Wales Press, 2008) and Ruth Bidgood (University of Wales Press, 2012). I have also written a pamphlet, over two dozen essays/articles, and fifty reviews (mainly of contemporary poetry).

Recently, I have concentrated on editorial work: I have edited the volumes Devolutionary Readings: English-Language Poetry and Contemporary Wales (Peter Lang, 2017) and Wired to the Dynamo: Poetry and Prose in Honour of John Barnie (Cinnamon, 2018); I have co-edited special issues of two academic journals (published in 2014 and 2015); and, since March 2014, I have led the editorial team of the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English (University of Wales Press).

For full details of my scholarly publications, reviews, speaking engagements, and current projects, please see my personal website.