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Professor Dafydd Johnston is a native of Yorkshire, and was appointed Director of the Centre in October 2008.
Formerly Professor of Welsh at Swansea University, he has published extensively on Welsh literature of all periods, including some of the English-language writers of Wales. He edited the volume on the 20th century in the University of Wales Press’s Guide to Welsh Literature series, and wrote the volume on the literature of Wales in its ‘Pocket Guide’ series.
His main research interest is medieval Welsh poetry, and he has specialized in textual editing, including three major editions, Gwaith Iolo Goch (1988), Gwaith Lewys Glyn Cothi (1995) and Gwaith Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen (1998), as well as two ground-breaking thematic collections, Medieval Welsh Erotic Poetry (1991) and Poets’ Grief (1993). In 2005 he published a comprehensive study of late-medieval Welsh literature, Llên yr Uchelwyr: Hanes Beirniadol Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg 1300–1525 , a volume which was short-listed for the Welsh Book of the Year Prize.
Professor Johnston was director of an interdepartmental research project funded by the AHRC (2001–6) which produced a new edition of the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym in electronic format, http://www.dafyddapgwilym.net/| .
At present he is co-investigator on the Guto’r Glyn Project| at the Centre. He has been co-editor of the journal Studia Celtica since 2002, and he was a member of the Celtic Studies Sub-panel for RAE 2008.
Selected Publications:
Co-editor (with Huw Meirion Edwards, Dylan Foster Evans, A. Cynfael Lake, Elisa Moras and Sara Elin Roberts), Cerddi Dafydd ap Gwilym (Cardiff, 2010), xxv + 760pp.
‘Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd a Beirdd yr Uchelwyr’, in Nerys Ann Jones (ed.), Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd: Bardd-Dywysog (Caerdydd, 2009), pp. 134–51.
‘ Semantic Ambiguity in Dafydd ap Gwilym’s “Trafferth mewn Tafarn” ’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies , 56 (2008), 59–74.
‘Cyngan Oll?’ Cynghanedd y Cywyddwyr Cynnar , J. E. Caerwyn and Gwen Williams Memorial Lecture (Aberystwyth, 2007).
Llên yr Uchelwyr: Hanes Beirniadol Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg 1300–1525 (Caerdydd, 2005).
‘Early translations of Dafydd ap Gwilym’, in Alyce von Rothkirch a Daniel Williams (eds.), Beyond the Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts (Cardiff, 2004), pp. 158–72.
‘Dafydd ap Gwilym and Oral Tradition’, Studia Celtica , XXXVII (2003), 143–61.
‘Oral Tradition in Medieval Welsh Poetry: 1100–1600’, Oral Tradition , 18/2 (2003), 192–3.
Co-editor, with Iestyn Daniel, Marged Haycock and Jenny Rowland, Cyfoeth y Testun: Ysgrifau ar Lenyddiaeth Gymraeg yr Oesoedd Canol (Caerdydd, 2003).
Bywyd marwnad: Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch a’r traddodiad llafar’, in Iestyn Daniel et al. (eds.), Cyfoeth y Testun: Ysgrifau ar Lenyddiaeth Gymraeg yr Oesoedd Canol , pp. 200–19.
Gwaith Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen (Aberystwyth, 1998).
Llyfr Poced: Llenyddiaeth Cymru (Caerdydd, 1997).
with N. G. Costigan and R. Iestyn Daniel, Gwaith Gruffudd ap Dafydd ap Tudur, Gwilym Ddu o Arfon, Trahaearn Brydydd Mawr ac Iorwerth Beli (Aberystwyth, 1995).
Gwaith Lewys Glyn Cothi (Caerdydd, 1995).
A Pocket Guide: The Literature of Wales (Cardiff, 1994).
The Complete Poems of Idris Davies (Cardiff, 1994).
Galar y Beirdd / Poets’ Grief: Medieval Welsh Elegies for Children (Tafol, 1993).
Iolo Goch: The Poems, Welsh Classics Series (Llandysul, 1993).
Canu Maswedd yr Oesoedd Canol / Medieval Welsh Erotic Poetry (Tafol, 1991).
Blodeugerdd Barddas o’r Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Ddeg (Barddas, 1989).
Iolo Goch (Gwasg Pantycelyn, 1989).
Gwaith Iolo Goch (Caerdydd, 1988).
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