Professor Jerry Hunter

Professor

j.hunter@bangor.ac.uk

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Professor Jerry Hunter

Jerry Hunter studied at the University of Cincinnati (BA, English), the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (MPhil, Welsh), and Harvard University (PhD, Celtic Languages and Literatures).  He worked as a lecturer at Harvard University and Cardiff University before coming to Â鶹Íø in 2003.

The fields of his research are extremely varied and he has published about Welsh-language literature from all periods, from the Middle Ages to contemporary literature.  He has published five monographs, one about connections between literature, prophecy and historiography in the sixteenth century, and four treating various aspects of nineteenth-century Welsh-language literature in America.  One of them, Llwch Cenhedloedd:Y Cymry a Rhyfel Cartref America ('The Dust of Nations: the Welsh and the American Civil War'), won the Literature Wales 'Book of the Year' Award in 2004 (and two of his other books have been short-listed for the same award).

At present he is working on Welsh literature and the wars of the seventeenth century and hopes to build on the foundations outlined in a recent publication, 'The Red Sword, the Sickle and the Author's Revenge: Welsh Literature and Conflict in the Seventeenth Century' (the 2016 J.V. Kelleher Lecture,  Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, vol. xxxvi).

Also a creative writer, he has published five novels - Gwenddydd (2010), which won the National Eisteddfod's Prose Medal, Gwreiddyn Chwerw (2012), Ebargofiant (2014), Y Fro Dywyll (2014) - translated by Patrick K. Ford and published as Dark Territory (2017) - and Ynys Fadog (2018).  He has also published a short novel for children.

Jerry Hunter has presented and co-scripted three documentary series for S4C.  One of them, Cymry Rhyfel Cartref America ('The Welsh of the American Civil War), won the Gwyn Alf Williams BAFTA Cymru award.

2025

  • Published
    Hunter, J., 1 Feb 2025, Ysgrifiadau Beirniadol XXXV. Y Lolfa, Vol. XXXV. p. 19 110 p. (Ysgrifau Beirniadol ).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2024

  • Published
    Hunter, J., 1 Mar 2024, Y Lolfa. 304 p.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2023

  • Published
    Hunter, J., 1 Dec 2023, In: Llên Cymru. 46, 1, p. 11-32 22 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

  • Published
    Hunter, J., 1 Mar 2021, In: Gwerrdon. 32, 1, p. 57-69
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Hunter, J., 9 Sept 2021, In: Llên Cymru. 44, p. 1-52 52 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  • Published
    Hunter, J., 2021, Y Lolfa.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2018

  • Published
    Hunter, J., Nov 2018, Talybont: Y Lolfa. 506 p.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2016

  • Published
    Hunter, T., 1 Jan 2016, In: Yearbook of English Studies. 46, p. 37-55 19 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Hunter, J., 1 Jan 2016, In: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. 36, p. 1-29 29 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2014

  • Published
    Hunter, T. G., 20 Mar 2014, Y Lolfa.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • Published
    Hunter, T. G., 21 Nov 2014, Y Lolfa.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2012

  • Published
    Hunter, T. G., 1 Jan 2012, Gwasg Gwynedd.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • Published
    Hunter, T. G., 1 Jan 2012, University of Wales Press.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2011

  • Published
    Hunter, T. G., 1 Jan 2011, Narrative in Celtic Tradition: Essays in Honor of Edgar M Slotkin. 2011 ed.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2010

  • Published
    Hunter, T. G., 1 Jan 2010, Gwasg Gwynedd.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • Published
    Hunter, T. G., Hunter, J., Charles-Edwards, T. M. (Editor) & Evans, R. J. (Editor), 1 Jan 2010, Wales and the Wider World:Welsh History in an International Context. 2010 ed. Shaun Tyas
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2007

  • Published
    Hunter, T. G. & Hunter, J., 1 Jan 2007, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • Published
    Hunter, T. G. & Hunter, J., 1 Jan 2007, University of Wales Press, Cardiff.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2005

  • Published
    Hunter, T. G., Hunter, J., Nagy, J. F. (Editor) & Jones, L. E. (Editor), 1 Jan 2005, Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Tradition: A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford. 2005 ed. Four Court Press, Dublin, p. 158-171
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2001

  • Published
    Hunter, T. G., Hunter, J. & Thomas, M. W. (Editor), 1 Jan 2001, Gweld Sêr: Cymru a Chanrif America. 2001 ed. University of Wales Press, Cardiff, p. 40-73
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • 01/09/2022 – 06/11/2024 (Finished)