Dr Cathryn Charnell-White
BA (Cymru) PhD (Cymru)

Reader
Head of Department (Welsh)
Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies
Contact Details
- Email: ctc@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 1.50, Parry - Williams Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622851
- Twitter: @CathrynChW
- Research Portal Profile
- Personal Pronouns: she / they
Profile
Pennaeth Adran (2013-); Departmental Director of Research (2014-21); Equalities Champion (2018-20) & Aber Enfys Ally (2017-); University Senate & Standing Student Disciplinary Panel (2019-)
Teaching
I contribute to language and literature modules for beginners, intermediate and fluent speakers across all undergraduate and postgraduate schemes in the department. I have also developed modules in my own areas of expertise encompassing modern and contemporary literature as well as the literary culture of the early modern period (1500–1800):
- Golwg ar Ferched mewn Llenyddiaeth cyn 1500 (The male gaze in medieval Welsh poetry and prose).
- Traddodiad Benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth yng Nghymru cyn 1800 (A Female Tradition? Women and Poetry in Wales before 1800)
- Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru (The Editor and Wales’s Publishing Industry).
- Testunau'r Enfys: Llunio Profiadau LHDT+ (Rainbow-coloured Texts: constructing LGBT+ experiences; co-delivered with colleagues from TFTS).
- Women’s Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400–1800.
Research
I am a member of the AHRC’s Peer Review College (2017–21) and have undertaken peer review for external organisations, including Gwerddon (Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol), University of Wales Press, WelshCrucible and The Huntingdon Library Journal.
My research into early modern and contemporary literature includes critical evaluation, editorial scholarship, and literary translation in the following areas which intersect in fascinating ways:
- Women’s literature and literary culture: Honno’s Welsh-language Classics; women’s poetry in a Welsh and pan-Celtic context.
- Literary negotiations of identity: gender, self-identity, regional and national identity, and Britishness in a ‘four nations’ context.
- Literary culture: networks and the burgeoning public sphere in eighteenth-century Wales and beyond.
- Ecocriticism: weather literature and historical meteorology.
- Eschatology: literary negotiations of death and dying.
Publications on women’s literature include the first comprehensive anthology of Welsh-language women’s poetry up to 1800, Beirdd Ceridwen (2005) and new editions of forgotten works by women in Honno’s Welsh Classics series, e.g. Pererinion & Storïau Hen Ferch (2008). Work in progress includes an overview of Welsh women’s poetic culture for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Women’s Writing; ‘Beyond borders: women writing in Ireland, Scotland and Wales’ in Women and Medieval Literary Culture from the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century (CUP, 2022); as well as edited texts, translations, notes and critical evaluation for an anthology (CUP, 2021) and critical companion (CUP, 2022) that will present work undertaken for the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Women’s Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400–1800’ (2013–17). I have written about identity and literary culture more broadly in Bardic Circles (2007), Welsh Poetry of the French Revolution (2012), ‘Networking the nation…’ (2013), ‘Perfformio’r genedl…’ (2017) and ‘Brawdgarwch cenedlgarol…’ (2020). A handful of articles, listed below, engage with weather literature, and I am currently completing an anthology of Welsh-language weather literature for Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, Trysorfa’r Tywydd (2021).
Additional Information
I am a member of the following societies: Yr Academi Gymreig (Literature Wales); Women's Archive Wales; ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment-UK); Barddas; BSECS (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies); Cymdeithas Astudiaethau'r Gymraeg, Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd.
I knit and play violin in my spare time, and some of you will get to know me through the University's orchestra, Philomusica.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- CY13120 - Sgiliau Astudio Iaith a Llên
- WEM4220 - Women's Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400 - 1800
Attendance Dept Admin
- CY01020 - Sylfaen Sgiliau Academaidd 1
- CY01120 - Sylfaen Sgiliau Academaidd 2
- CY11720 - Ysgrifennu Cymraeg Graenus
- CY13120 - Sgiliau Astudio Iaith a Llên
- CY20420 - Gweithdai Ysgrifennu Creadigol
- CY21420 - Cymraeg Llyfr a Chymraeg Llafar
- CY25620 - Y Gymraeg yn y Gweithle
- CYM5310 - Portffolio Cyfieithu 1 (Cyffredinol)
- CYM6010 - Datblygu Sgiliau Cyfieithu (yn y Gweithle)
- IR12220 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language II
- IRM2220 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language II
- CY30420 - Portffolio Ysgrifennu Creadigol Annibynnol
- CY31120 - Gloywi Iaith yr Ail Iaith
- IRM0120 - Old Irish for Beginners
- IRM0220 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- WEM0020 - The Mabinogion: Legendary and Arthurian Literature in Middle Welsh
- CY11020 - Ymwneud â'ch pwnc yn Gymraeg: sgiliau dwyieithog ar gyfer y brifysgol a'r gweithle
- CYM5520 - Cyfieithu ar Waith
- CYM7020 - Cyfieithu a Byd Busnes
- IR10620 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language I
- IRM0020 - Introduction to Scottish Gaelic Language and Literature
- WEM4220 - Women's Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400 - 1800
- CY10920 - Trafod y Byd Cyfoes twy'r Gymraeg
- CY35320 - Rhyddiaith Tri Chwarter Canrif, 1900-79
- CYM5110 - Datblygu Sgiliau Cyfieithu
- CYM6210 - Uwch Sgilau Golygu
- GC22120 - Gwyddeleg Modern (Iaith a Llên) 1+2
- GC23120 - Gaeleg yr Alban: cyflwyniad i'r iaith
- IR11220 - Modern Irish Language and Literature for Non-Beginners
- WE11420 - Introduction to Welsh Literature
- CY11420 - Cymraeg Llyfr a Chymraeg Llafar
- CY11520 - Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg: cyfoes a hanesyddol
- CY35420 - Barddoniaeth Tri Chwarter Canrif, 1900-79
- CYM5720 - Meistroli Mynegiant yn y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CYM6420 - Cyfieithu ar y Pryd : Arfer ac Ymarfer
- GC11820 - Cymru a'r Celtiaid
- IRM0320 - Comparative Celtic Philology
- MOR0320 - Sgiliau Ymchwil a Datblygiad Personol
- WE11320 - Beginning Welsh ii
- WEM0320 - Reading Early Modern Gaelic Prose Texts
- WEM0460 - Dissertation: Welsh and Celtic Studies
- WEM1120 - Welsh Language 1
- CY13020 - Cymraeg Llafar
- CY20120 - Gloywi Iaith
- CY30320 - Gweithdai Ysgrifennu Creadigol
- CY35620 - Y Gymraeg yn y Gweithle
- CYM5620 - Prosiect Arbenigol
- CYM6110 - Cyflwyniad i Gyfieithu ar y Pryd
- IR11820 - The Celts: A Contested Legacy
- IRM0620 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language I
- MOR0510 - Dulliau Darllen
- WE11220 - Beginning Modern Welsh 1
- CY11120 - Themau a Ffigurau Llen c.550-1900
- CY12720 - Cyflwyniad i Gymraeg Proffesiynol
- CY20520 - Cymraeg y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CYM5210 - Cyfarpar Cyfieithu
- CYM6310 - Hanfodion Isdeitlo
- CYM6510 - Ymarfer Cyfieithu a Golygu
- GC10120 - Gwyddeleg Modern: Cyflwyniad
- IR11720 - Introduction to the Literature of Gaelic Ireland
- WEM0120 - Comparative Celtic Literature
- WEM0520 - Early Medieval Welsh Poetry
- CY11220 - Beirdd a Llenorion o 1900 hyd heddiw
- CY35940 - Prosiect Hir
- CY36040 - Traethawd Estynedig
- CYM5410 - Portffolio Cyfieithu 2 (Arbenigol)
- CYM5820 - Cyfieithu Creadigol Rhyngwladol
- CYM5960 - Prosiect Estynedig
- IR22220 - Modern Irish (Language and Literature)
- WEM0220 - Welsh Language 2
- CY20720 - Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500
- CY35820 - Bro a Bywyd: Dehongli Treftadaeth Lenyddol y Cymry
- CY22420 - Y Cyfieithydd a'r Sector Cyfieithu
- CY25220 - Barddoniaeth Gymraeg Ddiweddar, 1979-
- CY25820 - Bro a Bywyd: Dehongli Treftadaeth Lenyddol y Cymry
- CY30720 - Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300 - 1500
- CY20620 - Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi
- CY30620 - Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi
- CY23220 - Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i Gyfoeswyr
- IR10120 - Modern Irish: Introduction
- CY22720 - Testunau'r Enfys: llunio profiadau LHDT+
- CY32720 - Testunau'r Enfys: llunio profiadau LHDT+
- WE30220 - Language revitalisation in a global context
- WE20120 - Language revitalisation in a global context
- WEM0720 - Language revitalisation in a global context
- IR12020 - Introduction to Old Irish
- IRM1020 - Modern Irish: Introduction
- CY33220 - Dafydd Ap Gwilym a'i Gyfoeswyr
- CY35220 - Barddoniaeth Gymraeg Ddiweddar (1979-)
- IR22320 - Modern Irish (Language and Literature)
- CY32520 - Hanes a Hanfodion Beirniadaeth Lenyddol
- CY22520 - Hanes a Hanfodion Beirniadaeth Lenyddol
- GC21820 - Cyflwyniad i Hen Wyddeleg
- GC33520 - Gwyddeleg Modern (iaith a llen) 3 + 4
- IRM1120 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- CY32420 - Y Cyfieithydd a'r Sector Cyfieithu
- IR21820 - Old Irish (Language + Literature) 1+2
- GC20120 - Gwyddeleg Modern: Cyflwyniad
Blackboard Dept Admin
- CY11020 - Ymwneud â'ch pwnc yn Gymraeg: sgiliau dwyieithog ar gyfer y brifysgol a'r gweithle
- CY11220 - Beirdd a Llenorion o 1900 hyd heddiw
- CY11520 - Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg: cyfoes a hanesyddol
- CY30320 - Gweithdai Ysgrifennu Creadigol
- CY30420 - Portffolio Ysgrifennu Creadigol Annibynnol
- CYM5110 - Datblygu Sgiliau Cyfieithu
- GC11820 - Cymru a'r Celtiaid
- WEM1120 - Welsh Language 1
- CY01020 - Sylfaen Sgiliau Academaidd 1
- CY01120 - Sylfaen Sgiliau Academaidd 2
- CY20420 - Gweithdai Ysgrifennu Creadigol
- CY25620 - Y Gymraeg yn y Gweithle
- CY35940 - Prosiect Hir
- CY36040 - Traethawd Estynedig
- CYM6420 - Cyfieithu ar y Pryd : Arfer ac Ymarfer
- CYM7020 - Cyfieithu a Byd Busnes
- IR22220 - Modern Irish (Language and Literature)
- IRM0020 - Introduction to Scottish Gaelic Language and Literature
- WEM0020 - The Mabinogion: Legendary and Arthurian Literature in Middle Welsh
- WEM0320 - Reading Early Modern Gaelic Prose Texts
- WEM0460 - Dissertation: Welsh and Celtic Studies
- CY35620 - Y Gymraeg yn y Gweithle
- CYM5210 - Cyfarpar Cyfieithu
- CYM5720 - Meistroli Mynegiant yn y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CYM6010 - Datblygu Sgiliau Cyfieithu (yn y Gweithle)
- CYM6310 - Hanfodion Isdeitlo
- CYM6510 - Ymarfer Cyfieithu a Golygu
- GC22120 - Gwyddeleg Modern (Iaith a Llên) 1+2
- GC23120 - Gaeleg yr Alban: cyflwyniad i'r iaith
- IR11720 - Introduction to the Literature of Gaelic Ireland
- WEM0120 - Comparative Celtic Literature
- CY11720 - Ysgrifennu Cymraeg Graenus
- CY21420 - Cymraeg Llyfr a Chymraeg Llafar
- CY31120 - Gloywi Iaith yr Ail Iaith
- CYM5620 - Prosiect Arbenigol
- CYM5820 - Cyfieithu Creadigol Rhyngwladol
- IRM0120 - Old Irish for Beginners
- IRM0320 - Comparative Celtic Philology
- CY11120 - Themau a Ffigurau Llen c.550-1900
- CY12720 - Cyflwyniad i Gymraeg Proffesiynol
- CY13020 - Cymraeg Llafar
- CY20520 - Cymraeg y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CY35320 - Rhyddiaith Tri Chwarter Canrif, 1900-79
- CYM5960 - Prosiect Estynedig
- IR10620 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language I
- IR11220 - Modern Irish Language and Literature for Non-Beginners
- WE11320 - Beginning Welsh ii
- WEM0220 - Welsh Language 2
- CY11420 - Cymraeg Llyfr a Chymraeg Llafar
- CY35420 - Barddoniaeth Tri Chwarter Canrif, 1900-79
- CYM5310 - Portffolio Cyfieithu 1 (Cyffredinol)
- CYM5410 - Portffolio Cyfieithu 2 (Arbenigol)
- CYM5520 - Cyfieithu ar Waith
- GC10120 - Gwyddeleg Modern: Cyflwyniad
- IRM2220 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language II
- MOR0320 - Sgiliau Ymchwil a Datblygiad Personol
- WE11220 - Beginning Modern Welsh 1
- CY20120 - Gloywi Iaith
- CYM6210 - Uwch Sgilau Golygu
- IR11820 - The Celts: A Contested Legacy
- IR12220 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language II
- IRM0220 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- IRM0620 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language I
- MOR0510 - Dulliau Darllen
- WE11420 - Introduction to Welsh Literature
- WEM4220 - Women's Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400 - 1800
- CY10920 - Trafod y Byd Cyfoes twy'r Gymraeg
- CY13120 - Sgiliau Astudio Iaith a Llên
- CYM6110 - Cyflwyniad i Gyfieithu ar y Pryd
- WEM0520 - Early Medieval Welsh Poetry
- CY25820 - Bro a Bywyd: Dehongli Treftadaeth Lenyddol y Cymry
- CY20620 - Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi
- CY23220 - Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i Gyfoeswyr
- CY25220 - Barddoniaeth Gymraeg Ddiweddar, 1979-
- CY30620 - Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi
- CY35820 - Bro a Bywyd: Dehongli Treftadaeth Lenyddol y Cymry
- CY22420 - Y Cyfieithydd a'r Sector Cyfieithu
- CY20720 - Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500
- CY30720 - Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300 - 1500
- IR10120 - Modern Irish: Introduction
- WE20120 - Language revitalisation in a global context
- CY32720 - Testunau'r Enfys: llunio profiadau LHDT+
- WE30220 - Language revitalisation in a global context
- CY22720 - Testunau'r Enfys: llunio profiadau LHDT+
- WEM0720 - Language revitalisation in a global context
- IR12020 - Introduction to Old Irish
- CY33220 - Dafydd Ap Gwilym a'i Gyfoeswyr
- IRM1020 - Modern Irish: Introduction
- CY35220 - Barddoniaeth Gymraeg Ddiweddar (1979-)
- IR22320 - Modern Irish (Language and Literature)
- CY32520 - Hanes a Hanfodion Beirniadaeth Lenyddol
- CY22520 - Hanes a Hanfodion Beirniadaeth Lenyddol
- GC21820 - Cyflwyniad i Hen Wyddeleg
- IR21820 - Old Irish (Language + Literature) 1+2
- GC33520 - Gwyddeleg Modern (iaith a llen) 3 + 4
- IRM1120 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- CY32420 - Y Cyfieithydd a'r Sector Cyfieithu
- GC20120 - Gwyddeleg Modern: Cyflwyniad
Moderator
- CYM6510 - Ymarfer Cyfieithu a Golygu
- CYM5310 - Portffolio Cyfieithu 1 (Cyffredinol)
- CY22520 - Hanes a Hanfodion Beirniadaeth Lenyddol
Lecturer
- CY13120 - Sgiliau Astudio Iaith a Llên
- CY20520 - Cymraeg y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CYM5720 - Meistroli Mynegiant yn y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CYM6210 - Uwch Sgilau Golygu
- CY11120 - Themau a Ffigurau Llen c.550-1900
- CY13020 - Cymraeg Llafar
- CY11720 - Ysgrifennu Cymraeg Graenus
Coordinator
- WEM4220 - Women's Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400 - 1800
- CY13120 - Sgiliau Astudio Iaith a Llên
I contribute to language and literature modules for beginners, intermediate and fluent speakers across all undergraduate and postgraduate schemes in the department: Sgiliau Astudio Iaith a Llên; An Introduction to Welsh Literature; Trafod y Byd Cyfoes drwy’r Gymraeg; Ysgrifennu Graenus; Cymraeg y Gweithle Proffesiynol; Y Gymraeg yn y Gweithle; Bro a Bywyd; Traethawd Estynedig.
I have also developed modules in my own areas of expertise that encompass modern and contemporary literature as well as the literary culture of the early modern period (1500–1800):
- Golwg ar Ferched mewn Llenyddiaeth cyn 1500 (The male gaze in medieval Welsh poetry and prose before 1500).
- Traddodiad Benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth yng Nghymru cyn 1800 (A Female Tradition? Women and Poetry in Wales before 1800)
- Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru (The Editor and Wales’s Publishing Industry).
- Testunau Bob Lliw: Llunio Profiadau LHDT+ (Rainbow-coloured Texts: constructing LGBT+ experiences; co-delivered with colleagues from TFTS).
- Women’s Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400–1800.
Research
I have been a member of the AHRC’s Peer Review College (2017–21) and have undertaken peer review for external organisations, including Gwerddon (Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol), University of Wales Press, WelshCrucible and The Huntingdon Library Journal.
My research into early modern and contemporary literature includes critical evaluation, editorial scholarship, and literary translation in the following areas which sometimes intersect in fascinating ways:
- Women’s literature and literary culture: Honno’s Welsh-language Classics; women’s poetry in a Welsh and pan-Celtic context.
- Literary negotiations of identity: gender, self-identity, regional and national identity, and Britishness in a ‘four nations’ context.
- Literary culture: networks and the burgeoning public sphere in eighteenth-century Wales and beyond.
- Ecocriticism: weather literature and historical meteorology.
- Eschatology: literary negotiations of death and dying.
Publications on women’s literature include the first comprehensive anthology of Welsh-language women’s poetry up to 1800, Beirdd Ceridwen (2005) and new editions of forgotten works by women in Honno’s Welsh Classics series, e.g. Pererinion & Storïau Hen Ferch (2008). Work in progress includes an overview of Welsh women’s poetic culture for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Women’s Writing; ‘Beyond borders: women writing in Ireland, Scotland and Wales’ in Women and Medieval Literary Culture from the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century (CUP, 2022); as well as edited texts, translations, notes and critical evaluation for an anthology (CUP, 2021) and critical companion (CUP, 2022) that will present work undertaken for the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Women’s Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400–1800’ (2013–17). I have written about identity and literary culture more broadly in Bardic Circles (2007), Welsh Poetry of the French Revolution (2012), ‘Networking the nation…’ (2013), ‘Perfformio’r genedl…’ (2017) and ‘Brawdgarwch cenedlgarol…’ (2020). A handful of articles, listed below, engage with weather literature, and I am currently completing an anthology of Welsh-language weather literature for Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, Trysorfa’r Tywydd (2021).
Responsibilities
Literature Wales, Chair (2021-) and Director (2019-)
External Examiner, Ysgol y Gymraeg / School of Welsh, Cardiff University (2019-)
Books Council of Wales, Council and Management Board, (2015-21)
Honno Welsh Women's Press, Management Board (2003-) & Co-editor of Honno Welsh Classics Series (2008-)
Treasurer, Adran Diwylliant y 18-19g (University of Wales Guild of Graduates; 2002-)
I am a member of the following societies: Archif Menywod Cymru; ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment-UK); Barddas; BSECS (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies); Cymdeithas Astudiaethau'r Gymraeg, Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd.