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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.
Professional memberships
ArrayContact Details
+44 29205 11713
John Percival Building, Room Room 1.73, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
