Professor Jerry Hunter
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Jerry Hunter studied at the University of Cincinnati (BA, English), the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (MPhil, Welsh), and Harvard University (PhD, Celtic Languages and Literatures). He worked as a lecturer at Harvard University and Cardiff University before coming to Bangor in 2003.
The fields of his research are extremely varied and he has published about Welsh-language literature from all periods, from the Middle Ages to contemporary literature. He has published five monographs, one about connections between literature, prophecy and historiography in the sixteenth century, and four treating various aspects of nineteenth-century Welsh-language literature in America. One of them, Llwch Cenhedloedd:Y Cymry a Rhyfel Cartref America ('The Dust of Nations: the Welsh and the American Civil War'), won the Literature Wales 'Book of the Year' Award in 2004 (and two of his other books have been short-listed for the same award).
At present he is working on Welsh literature and the wars of the seventeenth century and hopes to build on the foundations outlined in a recent publication, 'The Red Sword, the Sickle and the Author's Revenge: Welsh Literature and Conflict in the Seventeenth Century' (the 2016 J.V. Kelleher Lecture, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, vol. xxxvi).
Also a creative writer, he has published five novels - Gwenddydd (2010), which won the National Eisteddfod's Prose Medal, Gwreiddyn Chwerw (2012), Ebargofiant (2014), Y Fro Dywyll (2014) - translated by Patrick K. Ford and published as Dark Territory (2017) - and Ynys Fadog (2018). He has also published a short novel for children.
Jerry Hunter has presented and co-scripted three documentary series for S4C. One of them, Cymry Rhyfel Cartref America ('The Welsh of the American Civil War), won the Gwyn Alf Williams BAFTA Cymru award.
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The Red Sword, the Sickle and the Author's Revenge: Welsh Literature and Conflict in the Seventeenth Century
Hunter, J., 1 Jan 2016, In: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. 36, p. 1-29 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Dros Gyfiawnder a Rhyddid: Y Cambrian Guards, Caethwasiaeth a Rhyfel Cartref America
Hunter, J., 1 Mar 2024, Y Lolfa. 304 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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'What can the Welsh do?': Robert Everett and the creation of a Welsh-American abolition movement, c. 1840-1844.
Hunter, T. G., Hunter, J., Charles-Edwards, T. M. (ed.) & Evans, R. J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2010, Wales and the Wider World:Welsh History in an International Context. 2010 ed. Shaun TyasResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Rhwng Breuddwyd a Charchar: Cuhelyn, Cynddelw a Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg Drawsatantig
Hunter, J., 9 Sept 2021, In: Llên Cymru. 44, p. 1-52 52 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Ond Mater Merch: Cywydd Llatai Troseddol Tomos Prys
Hunter, J., 1 Dec 2023, In: Llên Cymru. 46, 1, p. 11-32 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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"I ddeffro ysbryd y wlad": Robert Everett a'r Ymgyrch yn erbryn Caethwasiaeth Americanaidd.
Hunter, T. G. & Hunter, J., 1 Jan 2007, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Myth and Historiography: One Hundred and Sixty Years of Madog and the Madogwys
Hunter, T., 1 Jan 2016, In: Yearbook of English Studies. 46, p. 37-55 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review