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

• AB1 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)
• AB2 Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s) (EN33620)
• AB1 American Literature 1800-2000 (EN11220)
• AB2 Ancestral Voices (EN10220)
• AB1 Beginning Creative Writing (WR11020)
• AB2 Beginning Creative Writing Part 2 (WR11120)
• AB2 Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis (EN21120)
• AB1 Crisis Writing (WR31820)
• AB2 Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing (WR10220)
• AB1 Critical Practice (EN11320)
• AB1 Designing Criminological Research (PGM3710)
• AB1 Dulliau Darllen (MOR0510)
• AB2 Experiments in Creativity (WRM0020)
• AB2 Haunting Texts (EN30820)
• AB2 Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing (WR32820)
• AB2 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change (EN19920)
• AB2 Introduction to Poetry (WL10420)
• AB2 Literary Geographies (EN21020)
• AB1 Literary Modernisms (EN20920)
• AB1 Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues (EN20120)
• AB1 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 Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now (WL11920)
• AB2 Place and Self (EN22120)
• AB2 Poetry After Darwin (ENM3320)
• AB1 Poetry for today (WR31220)
• AB2 Post-Colonial African Literature in English (EN38120)
• AB1 Postwar American Fiction (ENM1220)
• 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)
• AB2 Representing Disability: Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century (ENM3720)
• AB2 Research and Project Planning (ENM3020)
• AB1 Romantic Radical Cultures (ENM1520)
• AB1 Sensational Sales: Victorian Popular Literature 1848-1894 (ENM1720)
• AB1 Sgiliau Ymchwil a Datblygiad Personol (MOR2210)
• AB1 Shaping Plots (WR21720)
• AB1 Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction (WR21120)
• AB2 The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920a (EN31320)
• AB1 The Short Story: Regional Perspectives, Global Voices (WRM2020)
• AB1 Victorian Childhoods (EN30320)
• 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)
• AB1 Writer as Professional (WRM6620)
• AB2 Writer as Scholar (WRM6320)
• AB1 Writing Crime Fiction (WR32420)
• AB2 Writing Horror (WR31920)
• AB2 Writing Selves (WR20620)
• AB2 Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780 (EN28720)
• AB1 Writing and Place (WR32120)
• AB1 Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English (EN30420)

Lecturer

• AB1 Adventures with Poetry (WR22120)
• AB1 Independent Research Project (WL30140)
• AB2 Literary Geographies (EN21020)

Moderator

• AB2 Haunting Texts (EN30820)
• AB1 Literary Modernisms (EN20920)
• AB1 Literature since the '60s (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.