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Professor Damian Walford Davies
Deputy Vice Chancellor
School of English, Communication and Philosophy
- WalfordDaviesD@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 76437
- Main Building, Room DVC Office, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT
- Welsh speaking
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor, a role I took on in August 2021. From 2014 to 2018 I was Head of the School of English, Communication and Philosophy - a multi-discipline School with fascinating synergies between its constituent subjects - and from 2018 to 2021 I was Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - a vibrant, diverse yet connected family of 10 academic Schools. I continue to supervise PhD students - please see the information under the adjacent tabs.
Publication
2023
- Walford Davies, D. 2023. Viva Bartali!. Seren.
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. 2023. Viva Bartali!. Seren.
- 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.
Research
The main fields of my research are Romanticism (in particular the relation between literature and politics in the age of revolution) and the wider material cultures of the Romantic period; Romantic historicism and the methodologies of Romantic Studies (including counterfactualism and critical-creative approaches); Romanticism and geography/ cartography; Welsh Writing in English; twentieth-century poetry; and Creative Writing (in particular poetry) – together, of course, with the interfaces between these periods, disciplines and methods.
I am completing the co-authored final volume of the Oxford Literary History of Wales, of which I am General Editor. Recent publications include articles on Coleridge, shipwreck and trauma and on Keats’s creative-critical negotiations with the disease that killed him; the edited collection Counterfactual Romanticism (Manchester University Press, 2019); the co-edited collection Romantic Cartographies (Cambridge University Press, 2020); and the collection Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected (University of Wales Press, 2016). Forthcoming publications include the Cambridge edition of Thomas Love Peacock's novel, The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829); and a creative non-fiction book, The Ground, which creatively burrows into five adjacent fields in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Recent poetry collections include Judas (Seren, 2015) and Docklands (Seren, 2019) – the latter a ghost story in verse, located in 1890s Cardiff. I am particularly interested in deploying the dramatic monologue to retrieve – if only ultimately to emphasise the irrecoverability of – history’s lost or marginal voices. I am currently completing a poetic biography of the great Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914–2000), twice winner of the Tour de France (1938 and 1948).
Teaching
I am currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor and therefore my teaching time is limited, but my curriculum portfolio includes undergraduate and MA modules on Romanticism, Welsh Writing in English and Creative Writing. I continue to supervise PhD students and welcome applications in the above areas.
Biography
I joined the School of English, Communication & Philosophy at Cardiff in 2013 from Aberystwyth University, where I was Head of the Department of English & Creative Writing and Rendel Chair of English. I was Head of School at Cardiff from 2014 to 2018, when I took on the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2021 I took on the role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
I served as Chair of Literature Wales, one of the national companies of Wales, from 2012 to 2018, and from 2015 to 2018 I was Chair of the Board of Cardiff University Press, Cardiff University's innovative Diamond Open Access institutional publisher.
Professional memberships
I am a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Supervisions
I welcome applications for PhD study in the fields of Romantic-period literature and culture; literary geography/ cartography; Welsh Writing in English; and Creative Writing (epsecially poetry).
