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Dylan Foster Evans  MA (Cantab), PhD (Cymru) FLSW

Dr Dylan Foster Evans

(he/him)

MA (Cantab), PhD (Cymru) FLSW

cymraeg
Welsh speaking
Comment
Media commentator
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Teams and roles for Dylan Foster Evans

Overview

My main area of expertise is the poetry of the Middle Ages. I have been a member of projects that have edited and studied the works of two of Wales’s greatest poets, Dafydd ap Gwilym and Guto’r Glyn. I am currently leading an AHRC-funded project to edit the Welsh poems associated with figure of Merlin. I am particularly interested in the relationship between poetry, identity, material culture and the environment and have published a number of critical studies in these fields.

My interest in language and place extends into the modern period and I have a particular interest in the Welsh language in Cardiff. My work in this area covers the history of the language, its culture and literature and also its role in the formation of identity in a varied and multi-ethnic city. Place names form another related field of interest.

My teaching focuses primarily on medieval literature and the relationship between language and heritage. More generally, I am interested in the role of Welsh in the education system and the different types of Welsh used in contemporary Wales.

Publication

2024

2023

  • Foster Evans, D. 2023. Bydoedd Dr John Davies Mallwyd. In: Cynfael Lake, A. and Morgan, D. D. eds. Gofal ein Gwinllan: Ysgrifau ar gyfraniad Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru i'n llên a'n hanes a'n diwylliant., Vol. 1. Caerdydd: Corff Cynrychiolwyr yr Eglwys yng Nghymru, pp. 45-58.
  • Foster Evans, D. 2023. 'Hen famwydd blwydd blu': Rhyfel, Rhywedd a Gofodau Dafydd ap Gwilym. In: Chapman, T. R. and Huws, B. O. eds. Penrhaith ein heniaith ni: Cyfrol Deyrnged Gruffydd Aled Williams. Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn: Atebol, pp. 40-67.

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

  • Foster Evans, D. 2017. Bodio. O'r Pedwar Gwynt 5, pp. 46-46.

2016

2015

2014

2013

  • Foster Evans, D., Lewis, B. J. and Parry Owen, A. eds. 2013. Gwalch Cywyddau Gwŷr: Ysgrifau ar Guto'r Glyn a Chymru'r Bymthegfed Ganrif / Essays on Guto'r Glyn and Fifteenth-Century Wales. Aberystwyth: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales.
  • Foster Evans, D. 2013. Adeiladu Hudoliaeth: Dehongli Barddoniaeth Guto'r Glyn. In: Foster Evans, D., Parry Owen, A. and Lewis, B. J. eds. Gwalch Cywyddau Gwŷr: Ysgrifau ar Guto'r Glyn a Chymru'r Bymthegfed Ganrif / Essays on Guto'r Glyn and Fifteenth-Century Wales. Aberystwyth: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, pp. 453-473.
  • Foster Evans, D. 2013. William Herbert of Raglan (d. 1469): Family History and Personal Identity. In: Foster Evans, D., Parry Owen, A. and Lewis, B. J. eds. Gwalch Cywyddau Gwŷr: Ysgrifau ar Guto'r Glyn a Chymru'r Bymthegfed Ganrif / Essays on Guto'r Glyn and Fifteenth-Century Wales. Aberystwyth: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, pp. 83-102.
  • Foster Evans, D., Parry Owen, A. and Lewis, B. J. 2013. Introduction. In: Foster Evans, D., Parry Owen, A. and Lewis, B. J. eds. Gwalch Cywyddau Gwŷr: Ysgrifau ar Guto'r Glyn a Chymru'r Bymthegfed Ganrif / Essays on Guto'r Glyn and Fifteenth-Century Wales. Aberystwyth: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, pp. 11-19.
  • Foster Evans, D., Parry Owen, A. and Lewis, B. J. 2013. Rhadymadrodd. In: Foster Evans, D., Parry Owen, A. and Lewis, B. J. eds. Gwalch Cywyddau Gwŷr: Ysgrifau ar Guto'r Glyn a Chymru'r Bymthegfed Ganrif / Essays on Guto'r Glyn and Fifteenth-Century Wales. Aberystwyth: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, pp. 1-9.
  • Rosser, S. et al. eds. 2013. Llên Cymru. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

2012

2011

  • Foster Evans, D. 2011. On the lips of strangers: the Welsh language, the Middle Ages, and ethnic diversity. Presented at: 2008 meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA, 2008 Presented at Davies, M. T. ed.Proceedings of the Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting 2008. CSANA Yearbook Vol. 10. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University Press pp. 16-38.

2010

  • Foster Evans, D. 2010. Adnabod adar. Taliesin 139, pp. 111-117.

2009

2008

2007

2006

2000

  • Foster Evans, D. 2000. Gwaith Hywel Swrdwal a'i Deulu. Cyfres Beirdd yr Uchelwyr. Aberystwyth: Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru.

Adrannau llyfrau

Cynadleddau

Erthyglau

Gwefannau

Llyfrau

Monograffau

Teaching

BA in Welsh

  • Herio’r Traddodiad Llenyddol [Challenging the Literary Tradition]
  • Dafydd ap Gwilym
  • Treftadaeth a Thwristiaeth [Heritage and Tourism]
  • Blas ar Ymchwil [An Introduction to Research]
  • Ymchwilio Estynedig [Extended Research Project]

MA in Welsh and Celtic Studies

  • Academic and Professional Research
  • Exploring Welsh and Celtic Studies
  • Extended Research Project

Biography

I am currently head of the School of Welsh having joined Cardiff Unviersity as a lecturer in 1998.

My main interest is medieval poetry and I am a member of the AHRC-funded team that is working on An Edition of the Welsh Merlin Poetry. I also work on place names and am a member of the Welsh Language Commissioner's Place Names Standardization Panel and chair of the Welsh Place-Name Society.

Before coming to Cardiff, I spent three years at Aberystwyth as a research fellow at the University of Wales Center for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. There I worked on editing the work of the Poets of the Nobility. I studied for a doctorate at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and completed a thesis on the work of the fifteenth-century poet Rhys Goch Eryri. I published an edition of his work in 2007.

For my undergrduate degree, I studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Pembroke College, Cambridge. I was born and raised in Tywyn, Meirionnydd, and educated in the town's schools.

Professional memberships

Academic positions

  • 2017–          Head of School, School of Welsh, Cardiff University
  • 2015–          Reader, School of Welsh, Cardiff University
  • 2008–2015  Senior Lecturer, School of Welsh, Cardiff University
  • 1998–2008  Lecturer, School of Welsh, Cardiff University
  • 1995–1998  Research Fellow, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth

Committees and reviewing

Supervisions

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:

  • medieval Welsh literature
  • language and heritage
  • place names

Current supervision

Rhiannon Jones

Rhiannon Jones