Assoc ProfessorNerys Williams

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). He wrote some of his best poems before he was twenty in the first half of his short, remarkable life, and was prolific in the second half too with poems such as those set in London under the Blitz and reworkings of his childhood in Swansea, and his famous radio play Under Milk Wood (performed after his death). He was read widely and widely heard: with his reading tours in America and recordings of his works that sold in their hundreds of thousands after his death, he is credited with reviving the act of poetry as performance in the 20th century.

External Examiner PhD Viva Lily Ní Dhomhnaill: ‘”I am indebted to everyone” Susan Howe’s Inheritance’

Editorial Board Edinburgh Critical Studies in Avant-Garde Writing, Edinburgh Foundations in Avant-Garde Writing,

UCD College of Arts and Humanities Funding towards research publication "Poets on Air: Producing Poetry at the BBC 1950-75.:

Elected member

Elected member

External Evaluator for the NCFHE's process of accrediting course American Literature: 1865 to the Present (American University of Malta: MQF 6, 6 ECTS).

Visiting Scholar to the University of California at Berkeley for a semester on research project "Poets on Air "

Contemporary Women's Writing Association Conference University of Brighton in Hastings Poetry by women is wide-ranging, diverse and polyphonic. It works through and across lines and landscapes to create individual poems, collections, and bodies of work. Through traversing these in multiple ways, it establishes clusters and constellations which both speak to and disrupt traditions of poetry and poetics. This conference aims to take stock of contemporary women’s poetry, to begin to map the terrain and to articulate some of the lines and landscapes that women’s poetry explores.

in recognition of a commitment to innovative teaching methods

External Examiner Viva Ellen Dillon 'Abstraction in Contemporary Poetry: An Apprenticeship in Reading'

Working Class Students and Academics and the University System (Who will be behind that lectern in a decade?)

Member of Interviewing panel candidates for NUI Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

Contributing to news programme on the emerging exit polls and projected result of the Irish 2018 Referendum (Repealing the Eighth Amendment) .

Interview re: forthcoming referendum in Ireland (Reoeal the eighth). Opinion from Ireland

Hour long interview music and conversation on Music - reflecting on 1980s alternative Welsh bands Cyrff, Datblygu, Eirin Peryglus, Traddodiad Ofnus a Fflaps. Discussion the culture of the early 90s

Contributing to documentary on the history of Clement C. Moore's famous Christmas Poem

Roundtable current affairs discussion programme- examining in particular the Referendum (recorded in Dublin)

External Examiner MA in English Studies

Contributor to BBC radio documentary on the first world war poet Hedd Wyn (Ellis Evans) on the centenary of his death. Documentary examines his long poem 'Yr Arwr' / The Hero which posthumously won him the Eisteddfodic Chair in 1917

Meeting Hedd Wyn in Le Cirio, Rue de La Bourse, a Letter, by Nerys Williams Essay / Letter on the centenary of Welsh Language War Poet Ellis Evans's death in WW1