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Dr Rhys Kaminski-Jones BA, MA, PhD

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Research Fellow

Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS)


Tel: 01970 636543 
Email: rhys.kaminski-jones@wales.ac.uk

Role in the University

Researcher and lecturer

Background

Rhys Kaminski-Jones鈥檚 work focuses on connections between Welsh, English and other Celtic literatures during the eighteenth century and the Romantic era, on relationships between Celtic revivalism, Britishness and imperialism, and on building links between Celtic Studies and other academic disciplines. He joined the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in 2018 as a postdoctoral researcher, and is currently engaged in a British Academy funded project on the neglected Welsh Romantic author William Owen Pughe.

Rhys is also working on a monograph project entitled Reframing Welsh Revivalism: True Britons and Celtic Empires, 1707鈥1819. This study reveals the ways in which Welsh antiquarian and bardic revivalism was a means by which Welsh authors positioned themselves in the emerging contexts of a new British nation and a growing British empire. Based on extensive new archival research, and incorporating Welsh and English-language texts, the story that emerges does not downplay the distinctiveness of Welsh revivalism, but instead emphasizes its engagement with and importance within the period鈥檚 wider archipelagic and global developments.

Rhys has published and has forthcoming articles in journals including RomanticismThe Review of English StudiesTransactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and O鈥檙 Pedwar Gwynt. He regularly speaks at academic conferences and has been interviewed about his research on BBC Radio Cymru. He welcomes any and all enquiries about his work from those inside or outside academia.

Academic Interests

Rhys has an abiding academic interest in Celtic revivalism from c.1700 to the present, and in relationships between anglophone and Celtic-language literatures. He is lead tutor on the following modules:

鈥楻elics of the Celtic Revival: Ten Key Texts in Context (HPCS5011/6011)鈥

鈥楥eltic Revivals (HPCS7007)鈥

Rhys has also taught on the modules 鈥樏芴掖 and Research Methodology (CYCS7014)鈥, 鈥楳yths Made Modern: The Mabinogion in Contemporary Hands (HPCS5002)鈥 and 鈥楾he Celtic Arthur and the Matter of Britain (CYCS7021)鈥.

Publications

with Erin Lafford (eds.), Romanticism, special issue (forthcoming 2021/2)

with Erin Lafford, 鈥楥hange of air: introduction鈥, Romanticism, special issue (forthcoming 2021/2)

鈥 鈥樷楩loating in the Breath of the People鈥: Ossianic mist, cultural health, and the creation of Celtic atmosphere, 1760鈥1815鈥, Romanticism, special issue (forthcoming 2021/2)

鈥榃illiam Owen Pughe and Romantic rewritings of the poetry of Llywarch Hen鈥, The Review of English Studies (forthcoming 2021)

Review: Elizabeth Edwards (ed.), Richard Llwyd: Beaumaris Bay and Other Poems (Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2016), Romanticism, 26, no. 3 (2020), 305鈥6

with Francesca Kaminski-Jones (eds.), Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)

with Francesca Kaminski-Jones, 鈥業ntroduction鈥, in eidem, Celts, Romans, Britons,&苍产蝉辫;1鈥19

Review: Jeff Strabone, Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century: Imagined Antiquities (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), The Review of English Studies, 70, no. 296 (2019), 775鈥7

鈥 鈥淲here Cymry united, delighted appear鈥: The Society of Ancient Britons and the celebration of St David鈥檚 day in London, 1715鈥1815鈥, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 23 (2017), 56鈥68