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Yr Athro Martin Willis
Athro Saesneg
Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n Athro Saesneg yr Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth.
Ymunais â'r Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd ym mis Medi 2015 fel Athro Llenyddiaeth Saesneg. Cyn hynny roeddwn yn dal Cadair Bersonol mewn Gwyddoniaeth, Llenyddiaeth a Chyfathrebu yn yr Adran Saesneg ym Mhrifysgol Westminster.
Mae fy ymchwil yn canolbwyntio ar lenyddiaeth, gwyddoniaeth a meddygaeth, 1800 hyd heddiw.
O'm wyth llyfr yn y maes hwn, y diweddaraf yw Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen (Palgrave, 2016), Llenyddiaeth a Gwyddoniaeth (Palgrave, 2015) a Gweledigaeth, Gwyddoniaeth a Llenyddiaeth ,1870-1920: Ocular Gorwelion (Pickering & Chatto, 2011). Mae dwy elfen i'm hymchwil bresennol: yn gyntaf, cynrychioliadau gwladwriaethau trance, ac yn enwedig natur a chyflwr cwsg, mewn llenyddiaeth, celf a'r gwyddorau o ddechrau'r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg i'r presennol, ac yn ail, y dadansoddiad o ddulliau cydweithredu rhwng y dyniaethau a'r gwyddorau nawr ac yn hanesyddol.
Mae'r olaf yn un o brif weithgareddau'r Science Humanities Intiative, prosiect ymchwil mawr yr wyf yn ei arwain gyda'r Athro Keir Waddington (Hanes) a Dr James Castell (Llenyddiaeth Saesneg). Mae mwy o wybodaeth am y Fenter Dyniaethau Gwyddoniaeth ar gael ar ei gwefan (https://cardiffsciencehumanities.org).
Mae fy nghyfraniad i ysgolheictod llenyddiaeth a gwyddoniaeth hefyd yn cael ei gydnabod yn fy swydd fel Golygydd y Journal of Literature and Science ac yn fy rôl flaenorol fel Cadeirydd Cymdeithas Llenyddiaeth a Gwyddoniaeth Prydain (2015-18).
Yn ogystal, fi yw Arweinydd Academaidd Rhaglen Arweinyddiaeth Ymchwil Crwsibl Cymru, menter hyfforddiant ymchwil ryngddisgyblaethol Cymru gyfan sydd wedi ennill gwobrau sy'n ymroddedig i wella sgiliau'r genhedlaeth nesaf o arweinwyr ymchwil.
Mae fy arbenigedd addysgu mewn Llenyddiaeth a Gwyddoniaeth, Llenyddiaeth a Meddygaeth, ac yn fwy eang mewn Llenyddiaeth y 19eg ganrif. Fodd bynnag, mae fy ffocws addysgu canolog yn deillio o fy ymchwil ar y berthynas rhwng llenyddiaeth, gwyddoniaeth a meddygaeth. Rwyf wedi dysgu hyn yn eang, i fyfyrwyr israddedig ac ôl-raddedig ac wedi goruchwylio ymchwil MA a PhD yn y maes hwn.
Yn ogystal, rwyf wedi cael y cyfle i ddylanwadu ar ymchwil ac addysgu llenyddiaeth, gwyddoniaeth a meddygaeth yn rhyngwladol trwy fentrau traws-Brifysgol, archwilio allanol, ac amrywiaeth o ddarlithoedd, seminarau a gweithgareddau cyhoeddus rhyngwladol.
Byddwn yn croesawu ymholiadau gan ddarpar fyfyrwyr ymchwil sydd â diddordeb mewn astudio llenyddiaeth, gwyddoniaeth a meddygaeth; ac ymholiadau gan grwpiau cyhoeddus neu allfeydd cyfryngau sydd â diddordeb yn fy ymchwil a'm hysgolheictod.
I gael rhagor o wybodaeth am fy mhrosiectau a chyhoeddiadau ymchwil presennol, cliciwch ar y tab perthnasol uchod.
Cyhoeddiad
2025
- Scown, J., Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2025. A world after the pandemic: COVID-19 narratives, environment, and histories of the future. In: Butler, M. et al. eds. Coming to Terms with a Crisis: Cultural Engagements with COVID-19. Transcript
2023
- Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2023. Treatment. In: Altschuler, S., Metzl, J. and Wald, P. eds. Keywords for Health Humanities. Keywords New York: New York University Press, pp. 209-211.
2021
- Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2021. Pharmacology, controversy, and the everyday in fin-de-siècle medicine and fiction. In: Lawlor, C. and Mangham, A. eds. Literature and Medicine: Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century., Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambride University Press, pp. 135-153.
2019
- Willis, M. 2019. Sleeping science fictionally: Nineteenth-Century Utopian fictions and contemporary sleep research. Osiris 34(1), pp. 261-276. (10.1086/703562)
- Willis, M. 2019. Scientific self-fashioning after Frankenstein: The afterlives of Shelley's novel in science and medicine. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 41(3), pp. 321-335. (10.1080/08905495.2019.1600797)
- Fitzgerald, D., Lane, R., Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2019. Two ways of telling this story: Best practice in interdisciplinary collaboration. Cardiff: ScienceHumanities Initiative, Cardiff University.
2017
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Castell, J. 2017. ScienceHumanities: Theory, Politics, Practice. Journal of Literature and Science 10(2), pp. 6-18. (10.12929/jls.10.2.02)
- Castell, J., Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2017. ScienceHumanities: Introduction. Journal of Literature and Science 10(2), pp. 1-5. (10.12929/jls.10.2.01)
- Willis, M. 2017. Medical tourism in Victorian Edinburgh: Writing narratives of healthy citizenship. In: Hilger, S. M. ed. New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 357-376., (10.1057/978-1-137-51988-7_20)
- Willis, M. 2017. Unlocking the mechanism of murder: forensic humanism and contemporary crime drama. In: McElroy, R. ed. Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Routledge Advances in Television Studies London: Routledge, pp. 40-53.
2016
- Willis, M. ed. 2016. Staging science: scientific performance on stage, street and screen. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1057/978-1-137-49994-3)
- Willis, M. 2016. Science in the city: scientific display and urban performance in Victorian travel guides to London. In: Willis, M. ed. Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Stage, Street and Screen.. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 35-58.
2015
- Willis, M. 2015. Silas Marner, catalepsy, and mid-Victorian medicine: George Eliot's ethics of care. Journal of Victorian Culture 20(3), pp. 326-340. (10.1080/13555502.2015.1046906)
2014
- Willis, M. 2014. Literature and science: readers' guides to essential criticism. UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
2013
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Marsden, R. 2013. Imaginary investments: illness narratives beyond the gaze. Journal of Literature and Science 6(1), pp. 55-73. (10.12929/jls.06.1.04)
- Willis, M. ed. 2013. Rethinking approaches to illness narratives [Co-edition of special journal issue]. University of Westminster.
2012
- Willis, M. 2012. On wonder: situating the spectacle in spiritualism, magic and science. In: Kember, J., Plunkett, J. and Sullivan, J. eds. Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship 1840-1910. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) Pickering and Chatto, pp. 167-182.
- Willis, M. 2012. Objects of terror transformed: Victorian realism and the Gothic. In: Smith, A. and Hughes, W. eds. The Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 15-28.
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Marsden, R. 2012. The off-sick project. [Website].
2011
- Waddington, K., Thomas, R. H. and Willis, M. 2011. General paralysis of the insane. Practical Neurology 11, pp. 366-369. (10.1136/practneurol-2011-000112)
- Willis, M. 2011. Vision, science and literature, 1870-1920: ocular horizons. Pickering and Chatto.
2009
- Willis, M. 2009. Hard-wear: the millennium, technology and Brosnan's Bond. In: Lindner, C. ed. The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 151-165.
2008
- Willis, M. 2008. Changes in critical approaches. In: Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. The Victorian Literature Handbook. Literature and Culture Handbooks London: Continuum, pp. 177-189.
- Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. 2008. The Victorian literature handbook. Literature and Culture Handbooks. Continuum Press.
- Llewellyn, M. 2008. Entries on 'George Eliot' and 'Education'. In: Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. The Victorian Literature Handbook. Continuum
- Willis, M. 2008. Le Fanu's "Carmilla", Ireland, and diseased vision. Essays and Studies 2008, pp. 111-130.
2007
- Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. 2007. Jack the Ripper: media, culture, history. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Willis, M. 2007. "The Invisible Giant", Dracula and disease. Studies in the Novel 39(3), pp. 301-325.
2006
- Willis, M. 2006. Mesmerists, monsters and machines: science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.
- Cliffor, D. et al. eds. 2006. Repositioning Victorian sciences: shifting centres in nineteenth-century thinking. Anthem nineteenth century studies. London: Anthem Press.
- Willis, M. 2006. Unmasking immorality: popular opposition to laboratory science in late Victorian Britain. In: Clifford, D. et al. eds. Repositioning Victorian Sciences: Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Thinking. Anthem Press, pp. 207-218.
- Willis, M. and Wynne, C. eds. 2006. Victorian literary mesmerism. Rodopi Press.
- Willis, M. 2006. George Eliot's The Lifted Veil and the cultural politics of clairvoyance. In: Willis, M. and Wynne, C. eds. Victorian Literary Mesmerism. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, pp. 145-162.
- Willis, M. 2006. Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes and the narrative of detection. In: Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. Jack The Ripper: Media, Culture, History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 144-158.
2005
- Willis, M. 2005. Clairvoyance, economics and authorship in George Eliot's ‘The Lifted Veil’. Journal of Victorian Culture 10(2), pp. 184-209. (10.3366/jvc.2005.10.2.184)
2002
- Willis, M. 2002. Edison as time traveller. In: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism., Vol. 133. Thomson Gale, pp. 221-224.
- Willis, M. 2002. Behind closed doors: creating cultures of professional science in the 1890s. In: Hewitt, M. ed. Culture Institutions. Leeds: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, pp. 110-123.
2000
- Willis, M. ed. 2000. Weird science [Special journal issue of Victorian Review 26.1]. Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada.
1999
- Willis, M. 1999. Edison as time traveller: H.G. Wells' inspiration for his first scientific character. Science Fiction Studies 26(2), pp. 284-294.
1995
- Willis, M. 1995. Frankenstein and the soul. Essays in Criticism 45(1), pp. 24-35. (10.1093/eic/XLV.1.24)
- Willis, M. 1995. Preternatural narrative in the work of Arthur Machen. In: Short Story Criticism., Vol. 20. Gale Research Press, pp. 205-207.
1994
- Willis, M. 1994. Scientific portraits in magical frames: the construction of preternatural narrative in the work of E.T.A. Hoffmann. Extrapolation 35(3), pp. 186-200.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Scown, J., Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2025. A world after the pandemic: COVID-19 narratives, environment, and histories of the future. In: Butler, M. et al. eds. Coming to Terms with a Crisis: Cultural Engagements with COVID-19. Transcript
- Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2023. Treatment. In: Altschuler, S., Metzl, J. and Wald, P. eds. Keywords for Health Humanities. Keywords New York: New York University Press, pp. 209-211.
- Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2021. Pharmacology, controversy, and the everyday in fin-de-siècle medicine and fiction. In: Lawlor, C. and Mangham, A. eds. Literature and Medicine: Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century., Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambride University Press, pp. 135-153.
- Willis, M. 2017. Medical tourism in Victorian Edinburgh: Writing narratives of healthy citizenship. In: Hilger, S. M. ed. New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 357-376., (10.1057/978-1-137-51988-7_20)
- Willis, M. 2017. Unlocking the mechanism of murder: forensic humanism and contemporary crime drama. In: McElroy, R. ed. Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Routledge Advances in Television Studies London: Routledge, pp. 40-53.
- Willis, M. 2016. Science in the city: scientific display and urban performance in Victorian travel guides to London. In: Willis, M. ed. Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Stage, Street and Screen.. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 35-58.
- Willis, M. 2012. On wonder: situating the spectacle in spiritualism, magic and science. In: Kember, J., Plunkett, J. and Sullivan, J. eds. Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship 1840-1910. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) Pickering and Chatto, pp. 167-182.
- Willis, M. 2012. Objects of terror transformed: Victorian realism and the Gothic. In: Smith, A. and Hughes, W. eds. The Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 15-28.
- Willis, M. 2009. Hard-wear: the millennium, technology and Brosnan's Bond. In: Lindner, C. ed. The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 151-165.
- Willis, M. 2008. Changes in critical approaches. In: Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. The Victorian Literature Handbook. Literature and Culture Handbooks London: Continuum, pp. 177-189.
- Llewellyn, M. 2008. Entries on 'George Eliot' and 'Education'. In: Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. The Victorian Literature Handbook. Continuum
- Willis, M. 2006. Unmasking immorality: popular opposition to laboratory science in late Victorian Britain. In: Clifford, D. et al. eds. Repositioning Victorian Sciences: Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Thinking. Anthem Press, pp. 207-218.
- Willis, M. 2006. George Eliot's The Lifted Veil and the cultural politics of clairvoyance. In: Willis, M. and Wynne, C. eds. Victorian Literary Mesmerism. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, pp. 145-162.
- Willis, M. 2006. Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes and the narrative of detection. In: Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. Jack The Ripper: Media, Culture, History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 144-158.
- Willis, M. 2002. Edison as time traveller. In: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism., Vol. 133. Thomson Gale, pp. 221-224.
- Willis, M. 2002. Behind closed doors: creating cultures of professional science in the 1890s. In: Hewitt, M. ed. Culture Institutions. Leeds: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, pp. 110-123.
- Willis, M. 1995. Preternatural narrative in the work of Arthur Machen. In: Short Story Criticism., Vol. 20. Gale Research Press, pp. 205-207.
Arddangosfeydd
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Marsden, R. 2012. The off-sick project. [Website].
Erthyglau
- Willis, M. 2019. Sleeping science fictionally: Nineteenth-Century Utopian fictions and contemporary sleep research. Osiris 34(1), pp. 261-276. (10.1086/703562)
- Willis, M. 2019. Scientific self-fashioning after Frankenstein: The afterlives of Shelley's novel in science and medicine. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 41(3), pp. 321-335. (10.1080/08905495.2019.1600797)
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Castell, J. 2017. ScienceHumanities: Theory, Politics, Practice. Journal of Literature and Science 10(2), pp. 6-18. (10.12929/jls.10.2.02)
- Castell, J., Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2017. ScienceHumanities: Introduction. Journal of Literature and Science 10(2), pp. 1-5. (10.12929/jls.10.2.01)
- Willis, M. 2015. Silas Marner, catalepsy, and mid-Victorian medicine: George Eliot's ethics of care. Journal of Victorian Culture 20(3), pp. 326-340. (10.1080/13555502.2015.1046906)
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Marsden, R. 2013. Imaginary investments: illness narratives beyond the gaze. Journal of Literature and Science 6(1), pp. 55-73. (10.12929/jls.06.1.04)
- Waddington, K., Thomas, R. H. and Willis, M. 2011. General paralysis of the insane. Practical Neurology 11, pp. 366-369. (10.1136/practneurol-2011-000112)
- Willis, M. 2008. Le Fanu's "Carmilla", Ireland, and diseased vision. Essays and Studies 2008, pp. 111-130.
- Willis, M. 2007. "The Invisible Giant", Dracula and disease. Studies in the Novel 39(3), pp. 301-325.
- Willis, M. 2005. Clairvoyance, economics and authorship in George Eliot's ‘The Lifted Veil’. Journal of Victorian Culture 10(2), pp. 184-209. (10.3366/jvc.2005.10.2.184)
- Willis, M. 1999. Edison as time traveller: H.G. Wells' inspiration for his first scientific character. Science Fiction Studies 26(2), pp. 284-294.
- Willis, M. 1995. Frankenstein and the soul. Essays in Criticism 45(1), pp. 24-35. (10.1093/eic/XLV.1.24)
- Willis, M. 1994. Scientific portraits in magical frames: the construction of preternatural narrative in the work of E.T.A. Hoffmann. Extrapolation 35(3), pp. 186-200.
Llyfrau
- Willis, M. ed. 2016. Staging science: scientific performance on stage, street and screen. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1057/978-1-137-49994-3)
- Willis, M. 2014. Literature and science: readers' guides to essential criticism. UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Willis, M. ed. 2013. Rethinking approaches to illness narratives [Co-edition of special journal issue]. University of Westminster.
- Willis, M. 2011. Vision, science and literature, 1870-1920: ocular horizons. Pickering and Chatto.
- Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. 2008. The Victorian literature handbook. Literature and Culture Handbooks. Continuum Press.
- Warwick, A. and Willis, M. eds. 2007. Jack the Ripper: media, culture, history. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Willis, M. 2006. Mesmerists, monsters and machines: science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.
- Cliffor, D. et al. eds. 2006. Repositioning Victorian sciences: shifting centres in nineteenth-century thinking. Anthem nineteenth century studies. London: Anthem Press.
- Willis, M. and Wynne, C. eds. 2006. Victorian literary mesmerism. Rodopi Press.
- Willis, M. ed. 2000. Weird science [Special journal issue of Victorian Review 26.1]. Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada.
Monograffau
- Fitzgerald, D., Lane, R., Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2019. Two ways of telling this story: Best practice in interdisciplinary collaboration. Cardiff: ScienceHumanities Initiative, Cardiff University.
Ymchwil
My research focuses on the study of the inter-relationships between literature, science and medicine. My first monograph, Mesmerists, Monsters and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century (2006) reconsidered canonical nineteenth-century science fictions in the context of the history of science.
My second monograph, Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920: Ocular Horizons (2011) investigated Victorian and modern ways of seeing in the visual sciences, literature and dramatic performance. In 2012, this book was awarded both the British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize and the European Society for the Study of English Cultural Studies Book Prize.
I have also published two books aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates interested in the Victorian period and in literature and science. The Victorian Literature Handbook, which I edited with my long-time collaborator, Alex Warwick, was published in 2010 and Literature and Science: A Readers’ Guide to Essential Criticism was published in 2015.
My present research has two directions. First, I am beginning the work for a monograph on the roles and representations of science and medicine in travel guidebooks to Britain and Europe from the 1830s to the present.
Looking across a huge range of such guidebooks, including those published by and for the British Association for the Advancement of Science (a key case study) I am asking how far, and in what ways, the literary imagination played a role in their writing, modes of representation, dissemination and use.
Second, I am investigating seizure conditions in literature, visual art and medicine, with a particular interest in how these are presently understood by medical humanities scholarship. I am considering, for example, catalepsy in the Victorian period and epilepsy in the contemporary world. The most recent output from this project has been a gallery of seizure images, funded by the AHRC and hosted on their website from November 2015.
Much of my collaborative work on science and medicine is undertaken with Professor Keir Waddington, historian of medicine at Cardiff University. Together we lead the Collaborative Interdisciplinary Study of Science, Medicine and Imagination Research Group.
I have led research projects related to all of my areas of interest with the support of funding awards from the AHRC, British Academy, The Wellcome Trust, HEFCW, Strategic Insight Programme, and Cardiff Humanities Research Institute.
Addysgu
In the academic year 2020/21 I am teaching (partly online and partly in person) on the first year English Literature module, Critical Reading and Critical Writing, and on the Research Methods foundation for the MA in English Literature.
I will also be supervising BA and MA dissertations.
I continue to supervise three PhD students: Jim Scown, Cerys Knighton and Rebecca Spear.
Bywgraffiad
I joined the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University in September 2015 as Professor of English Literature.
Before that I held a Personal Chair in Science, Literature and Communication in the Department of English at the University of Westminster. I have also worked previously at the Universities of Edinburgh, Worcester and Glamorgan (now South Wales). I undertook my doctoral work at the University of Edinburgh. At Westminster and at Glamorgan I was also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Science and Imagination and the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, the latter funded by HEFCW.
Presently I also hold a position as Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Cardiff School of Medicine, where I advise on medical education and the history of medicine.
On a personal level, I was born and brought up in Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh, in whose University I was privileged to read English Literature and Language as an undergraduate at the end of the 1980s.
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
I supervise students on a range of topics related to literature and science, literature and medicine, and Victorian literature and culture.
Among my present supervisees, topics under investigation include:
The role of science in the work of Jane Austen
Scientific studies of soil and literary realism in the Victorian period
Creative praxis in narratives of bereavement
Critical and creative interrogations of the histories of female anatomy
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