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Dr Elen Ifan
(she/her)
- Welsh speaking
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Elen Ifan
Lecturer
Overview
My main research interest is regarding the relationship between literature and other media, including literature and music, popular media, and social media. I have also published on and am interested in the translation of music-linked texts.
Since completing a PhD on the relationship between the work of Welsh poet T. Gwynn Jones and music in 2017, I have published on song-translations in different contexts as well as the field of musico-literary studies.
I am also co-editor of peer-reviewed journal Llên Cymru with my colleagues at the School of Welsh and have appeared on BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio 3 discussing my research.
Research interests include:
- Literature and music
- Literature and popular media
- Literature and social media
- Twentieth century literature
- Literary and music-linked translation
Publication
2023
- Ifan, E. 2023. Rhwng y rheol uniaith a'r requiem: gweithrededd cyfieithu'r eisteddfod genedlaethol. Y Traethodydd, pp. 112-128.
2022
- Ifan, E. 2022. Shaping musical performance culture in a minority language context: the Gwynn Publishing Company’s Welsh and English song-translations. Translation Studies 15(3), pp. 275-289. (10.1080/14781700.2022.2116099)
2021
- Ifan, E. 2021. Astudiaethau cerddo-lenyddol yng Nghymru: y diffyg a’r galw. Gwerddon(33), pp. 6-32., article number: 1.
- Ifan, E. 2021. Awen i Bawb: Barddoni yn yr oes ar-lein. O'r Pedwar Gwynt 16(Summer), pp. 9-11.
2020
- Ifan, E. 2020. Cyfieithu Cymru yn ‘Welsh Week’ Wembley: H. Walford Davies, T. Gwynn Jones, a Welsh Festival Music (1924). Llên Cymru 43(1), pp. 22-52. (10.16922/lc.43.2)
2017
- Ifan, E. 2017. A Oes yna Heddwch? Nag oes!’: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Bangor 1914-15 a’r Rhyfel Mawr. Transactions of the Caernarvonshire Historical Society 77, pp. 142-155.
2015
- Ifan, E. 2015. T. Gwynn Jones' 'Tir na n-Óg': The Irish origins of a Welsh classic. In: Brannelly, L. A. et al. eds. Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 34: 2014. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 87-111.
Articles
- Ifan, E. 2023. Rhwng y rheol uniaith a'r requiem: gweithrededd cyfieithu'r eisteddfod genedlaethol. Y Traethodydd, pp. 112-128.
- Ifan, E. 2022. Shaping musical performance culture in a minority language context: the Gwynn Publishing Company’s Welsh and English song-translations. Translation Studies 15(3), pp. 275-289. (10.1080/14781700.2022.2116099)
- Ifan, E. 2021. Astudiaethau cerddo-lenyddol yng Nghymru: y diffyg a’r galw. Gwerddon(33), pp. 6-32., article number: 1.
- Ifan, E. 2021. Awen i Bawb: Barddoni yn yr oes ar-lein. O'r Pedwar Gwynt 16(Summer), pp. 9-11.
- Ifan, E. 2020. Cyfieithu Cymru yn ‘Welsh Week’ Wembley: H. Walford Davies, T. Gwynn Jones, a Welsh Festival Music (1924). Llên Cymru 43(1), pp. 22-52. (10.16922/lc.43.2)
- Ifan, E. 2017. A Oes yna Heddwch? Nag oes!’: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Bangor 1914-15 a’r Rhyfel Mawr. Transactions of the Caernarvonshire Historical Society 77, pp. 142-155.
Book sections
- Ifan, E. 2015. T. Gwynn Jones' 'Tir na n-Óg': The Irish origins of a Welsh classic. In: Brannelly, L. A. et al. eds. Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 34: 2014. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 87-111.
Research
My main research interest is regarding the relationship between literature and other media, including literature and music, popular media, and social media. I have also published on and am interested in the translation of music-linked texts.
Since completing a PhD on the relationship between the work of Welsh poet T. Gwynn Jones and music in 2017, I have published on song-translations in different contexts as well as the field of musico-literary studies.
I am also co-editor of peer-reviewed journal Llên Cymru with my colleagues at the School of Welsh and have appeared on BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio 3 discussing my research.
Research interests include:
- Literature and music
- Literature and popular media
- Literature and social media
- Twentieth century literature
- Literary and music-linked translation
Teaching
I lead on and contribute to a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the School of Welsh.
These include:
- Literary BA and MA modules
- BA Employability Module
- Second-language modules
- Undergraduate dissertation supervision
Biography
I graduated in Welsh and English Literature in Bangor in 2011, before contiuning my studies with a Master’s degree on the relationship between the work of poet Gwyn Thomas and music in the School of Welsh. I completed a PhD thesis in Bangor in 2017, which was a study of the relationship between the work of 20th Century poet T. Gwynn Jones and music. I spent a semester as Visiting Fellow in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures in Harvard University in 2013.
Following a period of working in radio as a Researcher and Assistant Producer at Radio Cymru and Radio Wales, I joined the school of Welsh as a Lecturer in September 2019.
Supervisions
Current supervision
Eirian Lewis
Contact Details
+44 29205 11713
John Percival Building, Room Room 1.73, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
