The Writers of Wales Database

GRAMICH (nee JONES), KATIE

Email: GramichK@cardiff.ac.uk

Critic, editor. Born in Rhydlewis, Ceredigion. Studied English and Spanish Literature at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and King’s College, London, before going on to do a doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. Has held academic posts at the University of Wales, Swansea; Portsmouth University; Trinity College in Carmarthen; and the Open University. Currently Chair of the Association for Welsh Writing in English and co–editor of the Honno Classics series. Her research interests are in the literature of Wales in both languages, women’s writing, post–colonial and translation studies. She is currently Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University.

Katie is a Fellow of The Welsh Academy.

Selected Publications:
Dangerous Diversity: The Changing Faces of Wales  (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 1998)
Twentieth Century Women’s Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging (Gender Studies in Wales) (University of Wales Press, 2007)
Kate Roberts (Writers of Wales Series) (University of Wales Press, 2011)

Contributed to:
Queen of the Rushes (co-editor) (Honno, 1998)
The Rebecca Rioter, Amy Dillwyn (editor) (Honno, 2001)
Welsh Women’s Poetry 1460-2001: An Anthology (co-editor) (Honno, 2003)
Almanac: Welsh Writing in English Yearbook: 12 (editor) (Parthian, 2008)
Mapping the Territories: A Library of Wales Companion (editor) (Parthian, 2010)

Articles & Chapters:
’Gorchfygwyr a Chwiorydd: Storïau Byrion Dorothy Edwards a Kate Roberts yn y Dauddegau’ in DiFfinio Dwy Lenyddiaeth Cymru, M. Wynn Thomas (ed.) (University of Wales Press, 1995)

’Cymru or Wales?: Explorations in a Divided Sensibility’ in Studying British Cultures, Susan Bassnett (ed.) (Routledge, 1997)

’Edward Thomas: Geography, Intertextuality, and the Lost Mother’ in State of Play, Hazel Walford Davies (ed.) (Gomer, 1998)

’Daughters of Darkness: Dylan Thomas and the Celebration of the Female’ in Dylan Thomas: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebook), John Goodby & Chris Wigginton (eds.) (Macmillan, 2001)

’The Masquerade of Gender in the Stories of Rhys Davies’ in Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare, Meic Stephens (ed.) (University of Wales Press, 2001)
 
’Mirror Games: Self and (M)Other in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas’ in Echoes to the Amen: The Achievement of R.S. Thomas, Damian Walford Davies (ed.) (University of Wales Press, 2003)

‘Punks, Pimps and Pub Crooners’ in To Hell with Culture: Anarchism and 20th-Century British Literature (University of Wales Press, 2005)