Dr Rhiannon Ifans
Contact Details
School of Welsh and Bilingual StudiesTel: 01570 424765 (4765)
E-mail: r.ifans@tsd.ac.uk
Location
Sheikh Khalifa Building/Second floor
Campus
Lampeter CampusJob Title
Dyson Fellow
Role in the University
Research Fellow
Teaching on the MA in Celtic Studies course
Background
Dr Rhiannon Ifans’ main field of research is medieval Welsh literature, both poetry and prose. She is the foremost scholar working in the field of the Welsh carol and related texts, and as editor of the old-established and authoritative journal relating to Welsh folksong, Canu Gwerin, she has made a significant contribution to the publication of Welsh music and research.
She has also published extensively on Welsh folk life and folk culture, Welsh theatre (with special reference to the eighteenth-century interludes), and new research by Dr Ifans proves that the first published literary volume by a woman was the work of Jane Ellis, an important milestone in the assessment of Welsh publishing. An award-winning children’s author, she is a regular participator at festivals and in schools and higher education institutions.
Member of
General Secretary of the Welsh Folksong Society; Member of the Welsh Academy.
Academic Interests
Medieval Welsh poetry and prose; ballads; plygain carols; ethnological studies; Welsh theatre (with special reference to the eighteenth-century interludes); publishing in Wales.
Publications
Yn Dyrfa Weddus: Carolau ar gyfer y Plygain (Aberystwyth, 2003)
Gwaith Syr Dafydd Trefor (Aberystwyth, 2005)
Y Golygiadur: llawlyfr ar gyfer awduron a golygyddion (Aberystwyth, 2006)
‘Journeys to Australiathrough the eyes of the Welsh ballad-writers / Awstralia, Gwlad yr Aur: teithiau i Awstralia drwy lygad y baledwyr Cymraeg’ in Trivium (the Tucker Lecture series), 2011
Erthyglau ar ‘Anterliwt’ (t. 76), ‘Arawn’ (t. 79), ‘Canu gwasael’ (tt. 339–41), ‘Mari Lwyd’ (tt. 1260–1), ‘Welsh music [3] cerdd dant’ (tt. 1767–8) yn Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. John T. Koch (Santa Barbara,Calif.;Oxford: ABC-CLIO), 2006).
‘“Dynoliaeth a grewyd mor loyw …”: un arall o garolau plygain Jane Ellis’, Canu Gwerin, 29 (2006), 71–7.
‘Ar drywydd y gyfrol brintiedig gyntaf o waith llenyddol yn y Gymraeg gan ferch’ / ‘On the trail of the first literary volume published in Welsh by a woman’, inCynheiliaid y Gân: Teyrnged i Phyllis Kinney a Meredydd Evans / Bearers of Song: A Tribute to Phyllis Kinney and Meredydd Evans, eds Sally Harper and Wyn Thomas (Cardiff, 2007), 189–226.
‘“Y fferi fawr i ffair Fôn”: Cywydd Syr Dafydd Trefor “I fferi Porthaethwy”’, Dwned, xiii (2007), 169–84.
‘Sarah Jacob, Sarah Hughes, a gweithwyr ffatri yn swyddAyr: lle merched ym maledi Huw Roberts
“Pererin Môn”’, Canu Gwerin, 32 (2009) 23–40.
‘Golwg gyfoes ar y Canu Mai’, Canu Gwerin 32 (2009), 51–64.
Editor: Canu Gwerin, cyfrolau 24 (2001) hyd 32 (2009)
