Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies

Bangor University

Bangor

LL57 2DG

[email protected]

+44 (0)1248 382097

Undergraduate modules

• Theatr Fodern Ewrop / Modern European Theatre
• Rhyddid y Nofel / The Welsh Novel
• Gweithdy Rhyddiaith / Prose Workshop
• Y Theatr Gymraeg Fodern / Modern Welsh Theatre
• Traethawd Estynedig / Extended Essay

MA

MA in Welsh

MA in Welsh Creative Writing

PhD

Supervision of PhD theses successfully completed by the following candidates:

• 2008 Judith Kaufmann (Translation Studies)
• 2010 Non Meleri Hughes  (Welsh Literature)
• 2011 Sian Owen (Creative Writing)
• 2011 Rhodri Llyr Evans (Welsh Literature)
• 2012 Dylan Rees (Creative Writing)
• 2013 Elin Gwyn (Welsh Literature)
• 2014 Eiddwen Jones (Creative Writing)
• 2015 Meg Elis (Creative Writing)
• 2019 Samuel Jones (Welsh Literature and Translation Studies)
• 2019 Cefin Roberts (Creative Writing)
• 2021 Elis Dafydd (Welsh Literature)
• 2021 Ruth Richards (Welsh Literature and photography)

Co-supervision of PhD theses successfully completed by the following candidates:

• 2008 Eleri Hedd James (Welsh Literature)
• 2009 Geraldine Lublin (Comparative Literature)
• 2014 Adam Pearce (Translation Studies)
• 2016 Sian Northey (Creative Writing)

Currently supervising PhD theses by the following candidates:

• Angharad French (Creative Writing)
• Rosie Dymond (Welsh Literature)

• Welsh prose
• Creative writing
• Comparative literature
• The Renaissance
• Translation Studies

Angharad Price is an academic and writer who has published widely on Welsh literature of the early modern and modern period, frequently within a broader European context.

Having graduated in Modern Languages from Jesus College, Oxford, where she also completed a DPhil thesis in Celtic Studies, her research explores the synergies which exist between the literature of Wales and other modern European literatures. Also an award-winning novelist and essayist, she has successfully supervised many research dissertations in literary criticism, creative writing, as well as translation studies, and her research interests in these fields inform her undergraduate and MA teaching.

She was appointed Senior Lecturer at Bangor University's School of Welsh in 2006 and was made Professor of Welsh there in 2014.

Among her major academic publications are Rhwng Gwyn a Du (2002), a study of Welsh fiction in relation to 20th-century European literary theory, and Ffarwél i Freiburg (2013), a study of the influence of European Modernism on the Welsh poet, T. H. Parry-Williams. The latter won the University of Wales Sir Ellis Griffith Prize in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award in the same year. Her most recent academic book is Gororion: Llên Cymru yng Nghyfandir Ewrop (2023), a collection of scholarly articles on literary connections between Wales and continental Europe. She edited Chwileniwm: Llenyddiaeth a Thechnoleg, a volume of essays on technology and literature, in 2002, and co-edited Translation Studies: Special Issue Wales with Helena Miguélez-Carballeira and Judith Kaufmann in 2016. She is an Editorial Board member of O'r Pedwar Gwynt, Ysgrifau Beirniadol and the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, was Executive Board member of the British Comparative Literature Association until 2024, and is currently Trustee of the Books Council of Wales and HASS committee member of the Learned Society of Wales.

She was elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2015.

As a creative writer, her first novel, O! Tyn y Gorchudd (2002) won the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod and was named Wales Book of the Year in 2003; it has been translated into six languages (including English, as The Life of Rebecca Jones, 2013). Her second and third novels, Caersaint (2010) and Nelan a Bo (2024), as well as her collection of personal essays, Ymbapuroli (2021), were all shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award (in 2011, 2022 and 2024). Her play, Nansi, produced by the National Theatre of Wales, won Best Welsh Playwright at the Wales Theatre Awards in 2017, and Congrinero, a monodrama about T. H. Parry-Williams's experiences as conscientious objector during the First World War, toured Wales during 2025.

In 2014 she was awarded the Glyndwr Medal for an outstanding contribution to the arts in Wales.