Dr Mererid Hopwood

Mererid Hopwood

Contact Details

Associate Faculty
Tel: 01267 676899 (6899)
E-mail: m.hopwood@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk

Campus

Carmarthen Campus

Job Title

Senior Lecturer

Role in the University

To teach Level 4 courses to 6th. form pupils.

Background

  • 1st. Class Honours in Spanish and German from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
  • Doctorate from University College, London in German Literature.
  • Tutor in some of the colleges of the University of London
  • Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages at Swansea University. 
  • Head of the West and Mid Wales office of the Welsh Arts Council
  • Spanish teacher at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Myrddin
  • Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Chair (2001), Crown (2003), Prose Medal (2008)
  • Wales’ Children’s Poet Laureate (2005)
  • Fellow of the Academi and of Trinity University College
  • Nember of Gorsedd y Beirdd (the Bardic Gorsedd) and of Ysgol Farddol Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen Bardic School) and chair the Carmarthen branch of Cymdeithas y Cymod.

In my spare time, I enjoy contributing to the work of Aelwyd Myrddin and the local Gobeithlu. At present, I am preparing a handbook and website on Cynghanedd (strict metre poetry) for children and a text book of Spanish Grammar in Welsh for students. I have a profound interest in literature and language, and am looking forward to the opportunity to render some of the most important poetry in the European canon into Welsh in order to introduce it to the students on the Faculty’s courses.

Publications

Books for Adults include:

Hopwood, M. (1994 ) Johann Peter Hebel and the Rhetoric of Orality, Stuttgart: Heinz

Hopwood, M. (2004) Singing in Chains – Welsh Strict Metre Verse, Llandysul; Gwasg Gomer

Hopwood, M. (2008) O Ran, Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer

Books for Children include:

Hopwood, M. (2005) Yr Ynys Hud, Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer
Hopwood, M. (2006) Y Tandem Hud, Pwllheli: Gwasg Gwynedd
Hopwood, M. (2007) Ar Bwys,  Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer
Hopwood, M. (2008) Cerddi’r Cof, Caerdydd: Gwasg y Dref Wen
Hopwood, M. (2009) Dwdl-mi-do, Pwllheli: Gwasg Gwynedd

Articles include:

Hopwood, M. (1996) ‘zur Nachahmung reizen’: the Lessons of the Early Nineteenth-century Women’s Calendars.  German Life and Letters,  XLIV No. 3,  31- 323

Hopwood, M. (1995) Von Pol zu Pol, Fremderfahrung im Werk Rose Auslanders. In Anne Fuchs & Theo Harden (Gol.) Reisen im Diskurs, (tt. 602- 613). Heidelberg:

Hopwood, M. (2002) ‘Llenwi’r Bylchau’. Transactions of the Honourable  Society of the Cymmrodorion, 9, 57-72

and contributions to Barddas, Taliesin, Tu Chwith.