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Professor Damian Walford Davies
Y Dirprwy Is-Ganghellor
Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth
- WalfordDaviesD@caerdydd.ac.uk
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- Y Prif Adeilad, Ystafell DVC Office, Plas y Parc, Caerdydd, CF10 3AT
- Siarad Cymraeg
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
I am part of the School's English Literature research group.
Postgraduate students
I welcome PhD and postdoctoral applications in Romantic literature and culture; Romantic historicist theory; Welsh Writing in English; Creative Writing (in particular poetry); literature and geography.
Additional publications
Literary Studies
Monographs
Cartographies of Culture: New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English (University of Wales Press, 2012)
Presences that Disturb: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-Century Literature (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002)
Scholarly Editions
Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin – volume 5 of the 7-volume Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (forthcoming, 2015)
Brenda Chamberlain, The Protagonists (Parthian, 2013)
Waldo Williams: Rhyddiaith (Waldo Williams: Prose Works; Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001), Awarded the 2002/2003 Sir Ellis Griffith Prize and the L. W. Davies Award.
William Wordsworth: Selected Poems (London: Dent, 1994), pp. xlix, 506 (reprinted 1995, 1999, 2000)
Edited Collections
Counterfactual Romanticism (forthcoming, Manchester University Press, 2016)
Roald Dahl, Writing Wales (forthcoming, University of Wales Press, 2016)
Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy (New York: Routledge, 2009)
Wales and the Romantic Imagination, co-edited with Lynda Pratt (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), pp. xii, 285
The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-Century Literature, co-edited with Richard Marggraf Turley (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006)
Cof ac Arwydd: Ysgrifau Newydd ar Waldo Williams (Memory and Sign: New Essays on Waldo Williams), co-edited with Jason Walford Davies (Barddas, 2006)
Echoes to the Amen: Essays After R. S. Thomas (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003)
Recent Contributions to Edited Collections
‘Counterfactual Obstetrics: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Frankenstein’, in Counterfactual Romanticism(forthcoming, 2016).
‘Dahl and Dylan: Matilda, “In Country Sleep” and Twentieth-century Topographies of Fear’, in Roald Dahl, Writing, Wales (forthcoming, 2016).
‘Ronald Lockley’s Archipelagraphy’, in Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge, ed. Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom and Jos Smith (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2016).
‘“Furious Embrace”: Clive Hicks-Jenkins Among the Poets’, in Clive Hicks-Jenkins, ed. Peter Wakelin (London: Lund Humphries, 2011), 170–85
‘“This Alabaster Spell”: Poetry as Historicist Method’, in The Artist in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions, ed. Richard Marggraf Turley (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2011), 27–48
‘Romantic Hydrography: Tide and Transit in “Tintern Abbey”’, in English Romantic Writers and the West Country, ed. Nicholas Roe (Palgrave, 2010), 218–36
‘Byron’s Cain and the “History” of Cradle Songs’, in Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy, ed. Damian Walford Davies (Routledge, 2009), 126–42
Published Lectures
‘Knowledge, Necromancy and The Engraving: A Case Study’, The Sir T. H. Parry-Williams Memorial Lecture 2014 (2015)
Recent and Forthcoming Articles in journals
‘Diagnosing “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: Shipwreck, Historicism, Traumatology’, Studies in Romanticism, forthcoming 2016.
‘Romanticism’s Wye’ (with Tim Fulford), Romanticism 19,2 (Wye Valley Special Issue. 2013), 15–25
‘Capital Crimes: John Thelwall, “Gallucide” and Psychobiography’, Romanticism, 18.1 (2012), 55–69
‘“Yeats Said That”: R. S. Thomas and W. B. Yeats’, Almanac: A Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English 13 (2009), 1–26
Creative Writing
Poetry
Judas (Seren, 2015)
Alabaster Girls (Rack Press, 2015)
Witch (Seren, 2012)
Suit of Lights (Seren, 2009)
Whiteout (with Richard Marggraf Turley; Parthian, 2006).
Prose
Poet’s Graves/Beddau’r Beirdd (with Mererid Hopwood; photographs by Paul White; Gomer, 2014)
Ancestral Houses: The Lost Mansions of Wales/ Tai Mawr a Mieri: Plastai Coll Cymru (with Siân Melangell Dafydd; photographs by Paul White; Gomer, 2012)
Cyhoeddiad
2020
- Walford Davies, D. 2020. Romantic cartographies: Mapping, literature, culture, 1789–1832. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2019
- Walford Davies, D. 2019. Counterfactual obstetrics: Mary Wollstonecraft's Frankenstein. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Counterfactual Romanticism. Manchester: Manchester University Press
- Walford Davies, D. 2019. Introduction: Counterfactual Romanticism. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Counterfactual Romanticism. Manchester: Manchester University Press
- Walford Davies, D. ed. 2019. Counterfactual romanticism. Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (10.7765/9781526107077)
- Walford Davies, D. 2019. The mare's tale: A libretto. Grey Mare Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2019. Docklands: A ghost story. Bridgend: Seren.
2018
- Walford Davies, D. 2018. Paradise destroyed. In: Dead Ground. Clutag Press, pp. 125-134.
2017
- Walford Davies, D. 2017. Keats's killing breath: paradigms of a pathography. In: Roe, N. ed. John Keats and the Medical Imagination. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 207-242., (10.1007/978-3-319-63811-9_11)
- Walford Davies, D. 2017. Ronald Lockley's Archipelagic imagination. In: Allen, N., Groom, N. and Smith, J. eds. Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 131-160.
- Walford Davies, D. 2017. (Dis)trusting maps. British Library's "Picturing Places-Transforming Topography"
2016
- Walford Davies, D. 2016. Diagnosing “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: Shipwreck, historicism, traumatology. Studies in Romanticism 55(4), pp. 503-536. (10.1353/srm.2016.0002)
- Walford Davies, D. 2016. Dahl and Dylan: Matilda, "In country sleep" and twentieth-century topographies of fear. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Roald Dahl: Wales of the unexpected. Cardiff: University of Wales Press
- Walford Davies, D. ed. 2016. Roald Dahl: Wales of the unexpected. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2016. Ronald Lockley’s archipelagic imagination. In: Allen, N., Groom, N. and Smith, J. eds. Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2015
- Walford Davies, D. 2015. Judas. Bridgend: Seren.
- Walford Davies, D. 2015. Alabaster Girls. Presteigne: Rack Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2015. Knowledge, necromancy and the engraving: a case study. T. H. Parry-Williams Memorial Lectures. Aberystwyth: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.
2014
- Walford Davies, D., Hopwood, M. and White, P. 2014. Poet’s Graves / Beddau’r Beirdd. Llandysul: Gomer.
- Walford Davies, D. and Hopwood, M. 2014. Poets' graves/Beddau'r Beirdd. Llandysul: Gomer.
- Walford Davies, D. 2014. An engraving: T. H. Parry-Williams, necromancy, unknowing. Sir T.H. Parry-Williams Memorial Lecture. Aberystwyth: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.
2013
- Chamberlain, B. Walford Davies, D. ed. 2013. The protagonists. Cardigan: Parthian.
- Walford Davies, D. and Fulford, T. 2013. Romanticism’s Wye. Romanticism 19(2), pp. 115-125. (10.3366/rom.2013.0125)
2012
- Walford Davies, D. 2012. Cartographies of culture: new geographies of Welsh writing in English. Writing Wales in English. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2012. Capital crimes: John Thelwall, 'gallucide' and psychobiography. Romanticism 18(1), pp. 55-69. (10.3366/rom.2012.0064)
- Walford Davies, D. 2012. Witch. Bridgend: Seren.
- Walford Davies, D., Dafydd, S. M. and White, P. 2012. Ancestral houses : the lost mansions of Wales / Tai mawr a mieri : plastai coll Cymru Damian Walford Davies ;Siân Melangell Dafydd; Paul White. Llandysul: Gomer.
2011
- Walford Davies, D. 2011. “Furious embrace”: Clive Hicks-Jenkins among the poets. In: Wakelin, P. ed. Clive Hicks-Jenkins. London: Lund Humphries, pp. 170-185.
- Walford Davies, D. 2011. “This alabaster spell”: poetry as historicist method. In: Marggraf Turley, R. ed. The Artist in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 27-48.
2010
- Walford Davies, D. 2010. Romantic hydrography: tide and transit in Tintern Abbey. In: Roe, N. ed. English Romantic Writers and the West Country. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 218-236.
- Walford Davies, D. 2010. Pig in a dingle: De Quincey and the romantic culture of the occult. Times Literary Supplement 5580, pp. 13-15.
- Walford Davies, D. 2010. The jumpers. New Welsh Review 88, pp. 43-48.
2009
- Walford Davies, D. 2009. Suit of Lights. Bridgend: Seren.
- Walford Davies, D. 2009. Byron's 'Cain' and the 'history' of cradle songs. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy. Routledge Studies in Romanticism Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 126-142.
- Walford Davies, D. 2009. Reflections on an orthodoxy. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy. Routledge Studies in Romanticism London: Routledge, pp. 1-13.
- Walford Davies, D. 2009. 'Yeats said that': R. S. Thomas and W. B. Yeats. In: Gramich, K. Y. ed. Almanac: A Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English,. Parthian, pp. 1-26.
- Walford Davies, D. ed. 2009. Romanticism, history, historicism: essays on an orthodoxy. Routledge Studies in Romanticism Vol. 11. London: Routledge.
2008
- Walford Davies, D. 2008. "Ymguddio Ynghanol y Geiriau": Y Bannau E. Llwyd Williams a Cherddi Waldo Williams [“Hiding in the midst of the words”: E. Llwyd Williams’s Y Bannau and the poetry of Waldo Williams]. Llên Cymru 31(1), pp. 177-183.
2007
- Walford Davies, D. and Pratt, L. eds. 2007. Wales and the romantic imagination. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2007. “Sweet sylvan routes” and grave methodists: Wales in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. In: Walford Davies, D. and Pratt, L. eds. Wales and the Romantic Imagination. University of Wales Press, pp. 199-227.
- Walford Davies, D. and Pratt, L. 2007. Devolving Romanticism. In: Walford Davies, D. and Pratt, L. eds. Wales and the Romantic Imagination. University of Wales Press, pp. 1-12.
2006
- Walford Davies, D. and Marggraf Turley, R. eds. 2006. The monstrous debt. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
- Walford Davies, D. and Walford Davies, J. eds. 2006. Cof Ac Arwydd. Abertawe: Cyhoeddiadau Barddas.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. “Cymodi â’r Pridd”: Wordsworth, Coleridge, a Phasg Gwaredol Waldo Williams [“Reconciliation with the Soil”: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Waldo Williams’s Easter Deliverance]. In: Walford Davies, D. and Waford Davies, J. eds. Cof ac Arwydd: Ysgrifau Newydd ar Waldo Williams. Barddas, pp. 83-107.
- Walford Davies, D. and Marggraf Turley, R. 2006. Whiteout. Cardigan: Parthian.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. “In the path of Blake”: Dylan Thomas’s Altarwise by Owl-Light. In: Walford Davies, D. and Marggraf Turley, R. eds. The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-Century Literature. Wayne State University Press, pp. 11-40.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. Waldo Williams, “In Two Fields” and the 38th Parallel. In: Chapman, T. R. ed. The Idiom of Dissent: Protest and Propaganda in Wales. Gomer, pp. 43-74.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. Megalith: Eleven journeys in search of stones. Llandysul: Gomer.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. Writing Stones. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Megalith: Eleven Journeys in Search of Stones. Gomer, pp. 1-7.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. Stations. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Megalith: Eleven Journeys in Search of Stones. Gomer, pp. 76-84.
2005
- Walford Davies, D. 2005. “At defiance”: Iolo, Godwin, Coleridge, Wordsworth. In: Jenkins, G. ed. A Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 147-172.
2003
- Walford Davies, D. ed. 2003. Echoes to the Amen. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2003. “Double-entry poetics”: R.S. Thomas – punster. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Echoes to the Amen: Essays After R. S. Thomas. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 149-182.
2002
- Walford Davies, D. 2002. Presences that disturb. University of Wales Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2002. “The Frequencies I Commanded”: Recordio R.S. Thomas. In: Price, A. ed. Chwileniwm: Technoleg a Llenyddiaeth (Millennium: Technology and Literature). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 157-169.
- Walford Davies, D. 2002. The politics of allusion: Caleb Williams, the iron chest, Middlemarch, and the armoire de fer. Review of English Studies 53(212), pp. 526-543. (10.1093/res/53.212.526)
- Walford Davies, D. 2002. “Gandhi” and “Beauty’s Slaves”: two English sonnets by Waldo Williams. Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 7, pp. 174-180.
2001
- Walford Davies, D. 2001. Waldo Williams. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru.
- Walford Davies, D. 2001. "Ar weun cas’ mael” Waldo Williams ac erthygl D. J. Williams ar Drecwn {Waldo Williams’s “ar weun cas’ mael” and D. J. Williams’s article on Trecwn]. Llên Cymru 24, pp. 171-173.
2000
- Walford Davies, D. and Châtel, L. 2000. “A mad hornet”: Beckford’s riposte to Hazlitt. The European Romantic Review 10(1), pp. 97-99. (10.1080/10509580008570100)
1999
- Walford Davies, D. 1999. Archaeoleg radical: Wordsworth, David Williams, a “Tintern Abbey”. In: Caerwyn Williams, J. ed. Ysgrifau Beirniadol XXV., Vol. 25. Denbigh: Gwasg Gee, pp. 130-143.
- Walford Davies, D. 1999. Wordsworth’s Blind Beggar and John Thelwall’s Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement. The Charles Lamb Bulletin 107, pp. 114-116.
1998
- Walford Davies, D. 1998. Pwy yw “Meirion” y Monthly Magazine? [Who is the Monthly Magazine’s “Meirion”?]. Llên Cymru 21, pp. 182-188.
1997
- Walford Davies, D. 1997. Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater. In: Wu, D. ed. A Companion to Romanticism. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 269-276.
- Walford Davies, D. 1997. Hermits, heroes, and history: Lamb’s “many friends”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin 97, pp. 9-29.
- Walford Davies, D. 1997. In the path of Blake: Dylan Thomas’s Altarwise by owl-light, Sonnet I. Romanticism 3(1), pp. 91-110.
1996
- Walford Davies, D. 1996. “Rewriting the law-books”: the poetry of popular music. Welsh Music History 1, pp. 206-240.
1994
- Wordsworth, W. Walford Davies, D. ed. 1994. William Wordsworth: Selected poems. Everyman Classics. London: Dent.
1992
- Walford Davies, D. 1992. Bywyd Marwnad (The Life of Elegy). Y Traethodydd 147(625), pp. 211-219.
1975
- Walford Davies, D. ed. 1975. Selected poems [of] William Wordsworth. Everyman's University Library Vol. 203. London: Dent.
Articles
- Walford Davies, D. 2017. (Dis)trusting maps. British Library's "Picturing Places-Transforming Topography"
- Walford Davies, D. 2016. Diagnosing “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: Shipwreck, historicism, traumatology. Studies in Romanticism 55(4), pp. 503-536. (10.1353/srm.2016.0002)
- Walford Davies, D. and Fulford, T. 2013. Romanticism’s Wye. Romanticism 19(2), pp. 115-125. (10.3366/rom.2013.0125)
- Walford Davies, D. 2012. Capital crimes: John Thelwall, 'gallucide' and psychobiography. Romanticism 18(1), pp. 55-69. (10.3366/rom.2012.0064)
- Walford Davies, D. 2010. Pig in a dingle: De Quincey and the romantic culture of the occult. Times Literary Supplement 5580, pp. 13-15.
- Walford Davies, D. 2010. The jumpers. New Welsh Review 88, pp. 43-48.
- Walford Davies, D. 2008. "Ymguddio Ynghanol y Geiriau": Y Bannau E. Llwyd Williams a Cherddi Waldo Williams [“Hiding in the midst of the words”: E. Llwyd Williams’s Y Bannau and the poetry of Waldo Williams]. Llên Cymru 31(1), pp. 177-183.
- Walford Davies, D. 2002. The politics of allusion: Caleb Williams, the iron chest, Middlemarch, and the armoire de fer. Review of English Studies 53(212), pp. 526-543. (10.1093/res/53.212.526)
- Walford Davies, D. 2002. “Gandhi” and “Beauty’s Slaves”: two English sonnets by Waldo Williams. Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 7, pp. 174-180.
- Walford Davies, D. 2001. "Ar weun cas’ mael” Waldo Williams ac erthygl D. J. Williams ar Drecwn {Waldo Williams’s “ar weun cas’ mael” and D. J. Williams’s article on Trecwn]. Llên Cymru 24, pp. 171-173.
- Walford Davies, D. and Châtel, L. 2000. “A mad hornet”: Beckford’s riposte to Hazlitt. The European Romantic Review 10(1), pp. 97-99. (10.1080/10509580008570100)
- Walford Davies, D. 1999. Wordsworth’s Blind Beggar and John Thelwall’s Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement. The Charles Lamb Bulletin 107, pp. 114-116.
- Walford Davies, D. 1998. Pwy yw “Meirion” y Monthly Magazine? [Who is the Monthly Magazine’s “Meirion”?]. Llên Cymru 21, pp. 182-188.
- Walford Davies, D. 1997. Hermits, heroes, and history: Lamb’s “many friends”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin 97, pp. 9-29.
- Walford Davies, D. 1997. In the path of Blake: Dylan Thomas’s Altarwise by owl-light, Sonnet I. Romanticism 3(1), pp. 91-110.
- Walford Davies, D. 1996. “Rewriting the law-books”: the poetry of popular music. Welsh Music History 1, pp. 206-240.
- Walford Davies, D. 1992. Bywyd Marwnad (The Life of Elegy). Y Traethodydd 147(625), pp. 211-219.
Book sections
- Walford Davies, D. 2019. Counterfactual obstetrics: Mary Wollstonecraft's Frankenstein. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Counterfactual Romanticism. Manchester: Manchester University Press
- Walford Davies, D. 2019. Introduction: Counterfactual Romanticism. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Counterfactual Romanticism. Manchester: Manchester University Press
- Walford Davies, D. 2018. Paradise destroyed. In: Dead Ground. Clutag Press, pp. 125-134.
- Walford Davies, D. 2017. Keats's killing breath: paradigms of a pathography. In: Roe, N. ed. John Keats and the Medical Imagination. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 207-242., (10.1007/978-3-319-63811-9_11)
- Walford Davies, D. 2017. Ronald Lockley's Archipelagic imagination. In: Allen, N., Groom, N. and Smith, J. eds. Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 131-160.
- Walford Davies, D. 2016. Dahl and Dylan: Matilda, "In country sleep" and twentieth-century topographies of fear. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Roald Dahl: Wales of the unexpected. Cardiff: University of Wales Press
- Walford Davies, D. 2016. Ronald Lockley’s archipelagic imagination. In: Allen, N., Groom, N. and Smith, J. eds. Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Walford Davies, D. 2011. “Furious embrace”: Clive Hicks-Jenkins among the poets. In: Wakelin, P. ed. Clive Hicks-Jenkins. London: Lund Humphries, pp. 170-185.
- Walford Davies, D. 2011. “This alabaster spell”: poetry as historicist method. In: Marggraf Turley, R. ed. The Artist in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 27-48.
- Walford Davies, D. 2010. Romantic hydrography: tide and transit in Tintern Abbey. In: Roe, N. ed. English Romantic Writers and the West Country. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 218-236.
- Walford Davies, D. 2009. Byron's 'Cain' and the 'history' of cradle songs. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy. Routledge Studies in Romanticism Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 126-142.
- Walford Davies, D. 2009. Reflections on an orthodoxy. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy. Routledge Studies in Romanticism London: Routledge, pp. 1-13.
- Walford Davies, D. 2009. 'Yeats said that': R. S. Thomas and W. B. Yeats. In: Gramich, K. Y. ed. Almanac: A Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English,. Parthian, pp. 1-26.
- Walford Davies, D. 2007. “Sweet sylvan routes” and grave methodists: Wales in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. In: Walford Davies, D. and Pratt, L. eds. Wales and the Romantic Imagination. University of Wales Press, pp. 199-227.
- Walford Davies, D. and Pratt, L. 2007. Devolving Romanticism. In: Walford Davies, D. and Pratt, L. eds. Wales and the Romantic Imagination. University of Wales Press, pp. 1-12.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. “Cymodi â’r Pridd”: Wordsworth, Coleridge, a Phasg Gwaredol Waldo Williams [“Reconciliation with the Soil”: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Waldo Williams’s Easter Deliverance]. In: Walford Davies, D. and Waford Davies, J. eds. Cof ac Arwydd: Ysgrifau Newydd ar Waldo Williams. Barddas, pp. 83-107.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. “In the path of Blake”: Dylan Thomas’s Altarwise by Owl-Light. In: Walford Davies, D. and Marggraf Turley, R. eds. The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-Century Literature. Wayne State University Press, pp. 11-40.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. Waldo Williams, “In Two Fields” and the 38th Parallel. In: Chapman, T. R. ed. The Idiom of Dissent: Protest and Propaganda in Wales. Gomer, pp. 43-74.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. Writing Stones. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Megalith: Eleven Journeys in Search of Stones. Gomer, pp. 1-7.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. Stations. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Megalith: Eleven Journeys in Search of Stones. Gomer, pp. 76-84.
- Walford Davies, D. 2005. “At defiance”: Iolo, Godwin, Coleridge, Wordsworth. In: Jenkins, G. ed. A Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 147-172.
- Walford Davies, D. 2003. “Double-entry poetics”: R.S. Thomas – punster. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Echoes to the Amen: Essays After R. S. Thomas. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 149-182.
- Walford Davies, D. 2002. “The Frequencies I Commanded”: Recordio R.S. Thomas. In: Price, A. ed. Chwileniwm: Technoleg a Llenyddiaeth (Millennium: Technology and Literature). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 157-169.
- Walford Davies, D. 1999. Archaeoleg radical: Wordsworth, David Williams, a “Tintern Abbey”. In: Caerwyn Williams, J. ed. Ysgrifau Beirniadol XXV., Vol. 25. Denbigh: Gwasg Gee, pp. 130-143.
- Walford Davies, D. 1997. Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater. In: Wu, D. ed. A Companion to Romanticism. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 269-276.
Books
- Walford Davies, D. 2020. Romantic cartographies: Mapping, literature, culture, 1789–1832. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Walford Davies, D. ed. 2019. Counterfactual romanticism. Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (10.7765/9781526107077)
- Walford Davies, D. 2019. The mare's tale: A libretto. Grey Mare Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2019. Docklands: A ghost story. Bridgend: Seren.
- Walford Davies, D. ed. 2016. Roald Dahl: Wales of the unexpected. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2015. Judas. Bridgend: Seren.
- Walford Davies, D. 2015. Alabaster Girls. Presteigne: Rack Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2015. Knowledge, necromancy and the engraving: a case study. T. H. Parry-Williams Memorial Lectures. Aberystwyth: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.
- Walford Davies, D., Hopwood, M. and White, P. 2014. Poet’s Graves / Beddau’r Beirdd. Llandysul: Gomer.
- Walford Davies, D. and Hopwood, M. 2014. Poets' graves/Beddau'r Beirdd. Llandysul: Gomer.
- Walford Davies, D. 2014. An engraving: T. H. Parry-Williams, necromancy, unknowing. Sir T.H. Parry-Williams Memorial Lecture. Aberystwyth: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.
- Chamberlain, B. Walford Davies, D. ed. 2013. The protagonists. Cardigan: Parthian.
- Walford Davies, D. 2012. Cartographies of culture: new geographies of Welsh writing in English. Writing Wales in English. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2012. Witch. Bridgend: Seren.
- Walford Davies, D., Dafydd, S. M. and White, P. 2012. Ancestral houses : the lost mansions of Wales / Tai mawr a mieri : plastai coll Cymru Damian Walford Davies ;Siân Melangell Dafydd; Paul White. Llandysul: Gomer.
- Walford Davies, D. 2009. Suit of Lights. Bridgend: Seren.
- Walford Davies, D. ed. 2009. Romanticism, history, historicism: essays on an orthodoxy. Routledge Studies in Romanticism Vol. 11. London: Routledge.
- Walford Davies, D. and Pratt, L. eds. 2007. Wales and the romantic imagination. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Walford Davies, D. and Marggraf Turley, R. eds. 2006. The monstrous debt. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
- Walford Davies, D. and Walford Davies, J. eds. 2006. Cof Ac Arwydd. Abertawe: Cyhoeddiadau Barddas.
- Walford Davies, D. and Marggraf Turley, R. 2006. Whiteout. Cardigan: Parthian.
- Walford Davies, D. 2006. Megalith: Eleven journeys in search of stones. Llandysul: Gomer.
- Walford Davies, D. ed. 2003. Echoes to the Amen. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2002. Presences that disturb. University of Wales Press.
- Walford Davies, D. 2001. Waldo Williams. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru.
- Wordsworth, W. Walford Davies, D. ed. 1994. William Wordsworth: Selected poems. Everyman Classics. London: Dent.
- Walford Davies, D. ed. 1975. Selected poems [of] William Wordsworth. Everyman's University Library Vol. 203. London: Dent.
Ymchwil
The main fields of my research are Romanticism, in particular the relation between literature and politics in the age of revolution; the wider material cultures of the Romantic period; Romantic historicism and the methodologies of Romantic Studies; Romanticism and geography/cartography; Welsh Writing in English; twentieth-century poetry; and Creative Writing (in particular poetry and ekphrasis/word-and-image) - together, of course, with the interfaces between these periods/disciplines.
I am currently completing the co-authored final volume of the Oxford Literary History of Wales, of which I am General Editor.
I am interested in theorising the methods we deploy as literary critics and editors to seek to know the Romantic period. One of my current projects is an edited collection entitled Counterfactual Romanticism, which explores the what ifs of literary history in order get a fresh purchase on the material contexts of Romantic literary production.
Other projects include the Cambridge edition of Thomas Love Peacock's novel, The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829); articles on Romantic-period cartography; the creative word-and-image project, Poets' Graves (Gomer, 2014); and a book-length ghost story in verse, set in late-Victorian Cardiff, entitled Docklands. I am also developing a project that explores the ways in which birds figure as both natural phenomena and symbols in the literature and culture of the Romantic period.
Addysgu
Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n Ddirprwy Is-Ganghellor ac felly mae fy amser addysgu'n gyfyngedig, ond mae fy mhortffolio cwricwlwm yn cynnwys modiwlau israddedig ac MA ar Ramantiaeth, Ysgrifennu Cymraeg mewn Saesneg ac Ysgrifennu Creadigol. Rwy'n parhau i oruchwylio myfyrwyr PhD ac yn croesawu ceisiadau yn y meysydd uchod.
Bywgraffiad
Damian joined the School of English, Communication & Philosophy at Cardiff in 2013 from Aberystwyth University, where he was Head of the Department of English & Creative Writing and Rendel Chair of English.
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
I am Chair of Literature Wales, the national company for the promotion of literature, and a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. I am a member of the Editorial Panel of University of Wales Press and serve on the committee of Wales's premier poetry magazine, Poetry Wales.
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Rwy'n croesawu ceisiadau am astudiaeth PhD ym meysydd llenyddiaeth a diwylliant y cyfnod Rhamantaidd; daearyddiaeth lenyddol/cartograffeg; Ysgrifennu Cymraeg yn Saesneg; ac Ysgrifennu Creadigol (epsecially poetry).
