M. Wynn Thomas

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

FEA

FLSW The Learned Society of Wales ( Welsh: Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru) is a learned society and charity that exists to "celebrate, recognise, preserve, protect and encourage excellence in all of the scholarly disciplines", and to serve the Welsh natio ...

FBA is a Professor of English at

Swansea University , former_names=University College of Swansea, University of Wales Swansea , motto= cy, Gweddw crefft heb ei dawn , mottoeng="Technical skill is bereft without culture" , established=1920 – University College of Swansea 1996 – University of Wa ...

and holds the Emyr Humphreys Chair of Welsh Writing in English at

. His expertise is in American poetry and modern Welsh literature.

Career

Thomas graduated from

in 1965 with a BA in English, and after starting his postgraduate studies, he was appointed a member of staff at

at the age of just 21, and spent much of his academic career working there. Alongside teaching English, Thomas was the founder and former director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW) at

. Away from his work at

, Thomas was the former Chairman of the

Books Council of Wales The Books Council of Wales (previously known as the Welsh Books Council) or Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru was established in 1961. Today it is funded by the Welsh Government. The council's aims are to promote the interests of Welsh language books and Engl ...

, the former Chairman of the

Welsh Arts Council The Arts Council of Wales (ACW; cy, Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru) is a Welsh Government-sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales. Established within the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1946, as the Welsh Arts C ...

's Literature Committee, and the former Chairman of the Welsh Academy of Writers,

Yr Academi Gymreig Literature Wales is the Welsh national literature promotion agency and society of writers, existing to promote Welsh-language and English-language literature in Wales. It offers bursaries for writing projects, runs literary events and lectures ...

Honours

* 1996 - Elected Fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

* 2000 - Elected Fellow of

* 2000 - Received highest honour of the

National Eisteddfod of Wales The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh language, Welsh: ') is the largest of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales. Its eight days of competitions and performances are considered the largest music and poetry festival in Eur ...

* 2010 - Founding

Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales The Learned Society of Wales (Welsh: Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru) is a learned society and charity that exists to "celebrate, recognise, preserve, protect and encourage excellence in all of the scholarly disciplines", and to serve the Welsh nation ...

Selected works

* Thomas, M. Wynn (1987). ''The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. ISBN 978-0-674-53952-4 * Thomas, M. Wynn (2009). ''In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales.'' Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-1-783-16477-6 * Thomas, M. Wynn (2009). ''Transatlantic Connections: Whitman US, Whitman UK.'' Iowa: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-925-8

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, M. Wynn Living people Alumni of Swansea University Academics of Swansea University Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales Year of birth missing (living people)