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
- WEM1120 - Welsh Language 1
- WE11220 - Beginning Modern Welsh 1
- WEM4220 - Women's Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400 - 1800
- WEM0220 - Welsh Language 2
- CY36120 - Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru
- CY26120 - Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru
- CY24220 - Traddodiad benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth yng Nghymru 1400-1800
- CY34220 - Traddodiad Benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth 1400-1800
Lecturer
- CY11720 - Ysgrifennu Cymraeg Graenus
- CY20520 - Cymraeg y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CYM5720 - Meistroli Mynegiant yn y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CY13020 - Cymraeg Llafar
- CYM6210 - Uwch Sgilau Golygu
- CY11120 - Themau a Ffigurau Llen c.550-1900
- CY13120 - Sgiliau Astudio Iaith a Llên
- CY32320 - Cymraeg Ddoe a Heddiw: Cyflwyniad i ieithyddiaeth
- CY24220 - Traddodiad benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth yng Nghymru 1400-1800
- CY34220 - Traddodiad Benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth 1400-1800
Coordinator
- WEM4220 - Women's Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400 - 1800
- WEM0220 - Welsh Language 2
- WE11220 - Beginning Modern Welsh 1
- WEM1120 - Welsh Language 1
- CY26120 - Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru
- CY36120 - Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru
- CY34220 - Traddodiad Benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth 1400-1800
- CY24220 - Traddodiad benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth yng Nghymru 1400-1800
Moderator
- CYM5310 - Portffolio Cyfieithu 1 (Cyffredinol)
- CYM6510 - Ymarfer Cyfieithu a Golygu
- CYM6210 - Uwch Sgilau Golygu
Blackboard Dept Admin
- CY11120 - Themau a Ffigurau Llen c.550-1900
- CY12720 - Cyflwyniad i Gymraeg Proffesiynol
- CY24520 - Y Gynghanedd: Cwrs Trochi
- CY30420 - Portffolio Ysgrifennu Creadigol Annibynnol
- CY31120 - Gloywi Iaith yr Ail Iaith
- CY33620 - Rhyddiaith y Dadeni
- CYM5620 - Prosiect Arbenigol
- CYM5960 - Prosiect Estynedig
- CYM6420 - Cyfieithu ar y Pryd : Arfer ac Ymarfer
- CYM7020 - Cyfieithu a Byd Busnes
- GC11820 - Cymru a'r Celtiaid
- GC22120 - Gwyddeleg Modern (Iaith a Llên) 1+2
- IR33220 - Comparative Celtic Philology
- IRM0320 - Comparative Celtic Philology
- WEM0520 - Early Medieval Welsh Poetry
- CY11220 - Beirdd a Llenorion o 1900 hyd heddiw
- CY11520 - Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg: cyfoes a hanesyddol
- CY13020 - Cymraeg Llafar
- CY25420 - Barddoniaeth Tri Chwarter Canrif, 1900-1979
- CY34220 - Traddodiad Benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth 1400-1800
- CYM5410 - Portffolio Cyfieithu 2 (Arbenigol)
- CYM5820 - Cyfieithu Creadigol Rhyngwladol
- CYM6110 - Cyflwyniad i Gyfieithu ar y Pryd
- CYM6210 - Uwch Sgilau Golygu
- GC23120 - Gaeleg yr Alban: cyflwyniad i'r iaith
- IR11220 - Modern Irish Language and Literature for Non-Beginners
- IR11820 - The Celts: A Contested Legacy
- IR12220 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language II
- IR23120 - Modern Irish (Language and Literature)
- IR32520 - Modern Irish (Language and Literature) 3+4
- LL21120 - Llydaweg: Cyflwyniad
- WEM0020 - The Mabinogion: Legendary and Arthurian Literature in Middle Welsh
- WEM1120 - Welsh Language 1
- CY01120 - Sylfaen Sgiliau Academaidd 2
- CY10020 - Cyflwyniad i Ysgrifennu Creadigol
- CY20420 - Gweithdai Ysgrifennu Creadigol
- CY25620 - Y Gymraeg yn y Gweithle
- CY36040 - Traethawd Estynedig
- CYM5720 - Meistroli Mynegiant yn y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- IR33320 - Comparative Celtic Literature
- LL11120 - Llydaweg: Cyflwyniad
- LL31120 - Llydaweg: cyflwyniad
- WE11320 - Beginning Welsh ii
- WEM0120 - Comparative Celtic Literature
- CY01020 - Sylfaen Sgiliau Academaidd 1
- CY22320 - Cymraeg Ddoe a Heddiw: cyflwyniad i ieithyddiaeth
- CY23420 - Y Chwedl Arthuraidd cyn 1200
- CY25320 - Rhyddiaith Tri Chwarter Canrif (1900-1979)
- CY26120 - Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru
- CY32320 - Cymraeg Ddoe a Heddiw: Cyflwyniad i ieithyddiaeth
- CY35320 - Rhyddiaith Tri Chwarter Canrif, 1900-79
- CY35420 - Barddoniaeth Tri Chwarter Canrif, 1900-79
- CY35940 - Prosiect Hir
- CYM5110 - Datblygu Sgiliau Cyfieithu
- CYM5520 - Cyfieithu ar Waith
- IR10620 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language I
- IR22220 - Modern Irish (Language and Literature)
- CY13120 - Sgiliau Astudio Iaith a Llên
- CY20120 - Gloywi Iaith
- CY24220 - Traddodiad benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth yng Nghymru 1400-1800
- CY35620 - Y Gymraeg yn y Gweithle
- CY35720 - Astudiaethau Trosi ac Addasu
- CYM5210 - Cyfarpar Cyfieithu
- CYM6010 - Datblygu Sgiliau Cyfieithu (yn y Gweithle)
- GC10120 - Gwyddeleg Modern: Cyflwyniad
- IR11720 - Introduction to the Literature of Gaelic Ireland
- IR11920 - Introduction to Old Irish
- IR32120 - Introduction to Scottish Gaelic Language and Literature
- IRM0120 - Old Irish for Beginners
- IRM0220 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- IRM2220 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language II
- WE11420 - Introduction to Welsh Literature
- CY11420 - Cymraeg Llyfr a Chymraeg Llafar
- CY30320 - Gweithdai Ysgrifennu Creadigol
- CY34520 - Y Gynghanedd: Cwrs Trochi
- CY36120 - Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru
- IR22520 - Middle Irish Texts in Context
- IRM0020 - Introduction to Scottish Gaelic Language and Literature
- WEM0220 - Welsh Language 2
- WEM4220 - Women's Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400 - 1800
- CY10920 - Trafod y Byd Cyfoes twy'r Gymraeg
- CY11020 - Ymwneud â'ch pwnc yn Gymraeg: sgiliau dwyieithog ar gyfer y brifysgol a'r gweithle
- CY21420 - Cymraeg Llyfr a Chymraeg Llafar
- CYM5310 - Portffolio Cyfieithu 1 (Cyffredinol)
- IR32220 - Princes, Priests and Poets: Reading Early Modern Gaelic Prose
- IR32320 - Early Irish Saga Literature
- MOR0320 - Sgiliau Ymchwil a Datblygiad Personol
- MOR0510 - Dulliau Darllen
- WEM0320 - Reading Early Modern Gaelic Prose Texts
- CY11720 - Ysgrifennu Cymraeg Graenus
- CY20520 - Cymraeg y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CY23120 - Y Cynfeirdd: o Taliesin i Heledd
- CY23620 - Rhyddiaith y Dadeni
- CY25720 - Astudiaethau Trosi ac Addasu
- CY33120 - Y Cynfeirdd: o Taliesin i Heledd
- CY33420 - Y Chwedl Arthuraidd cyn 1200
- CYM6310 - Hanfodion Isdeitlo
- CYM6510 - Ymarfer Cyfieithu a Golygu
- IR21920 - Old Irish (Language + Literature) 1+2
- IRM0620 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language I
- WE11220 - Beginning Modern Welsh 1
- WEM0460 - Dissertation: Welsh and Celtic Studies
Attendance Dept Admin
- CY13020 - Cymraeg Llafar
- CY23620 - Rhyddiaith y Dadeni
- CY33120 - Y Cynfeirdd: o Taliesin i Heledd
- CY36040 - Traethawd Estynedig
- CYM5210 - Cyfarpar Cyfieithu
- CYM5620 - Prosiect Arbenigol
- IR11820 - The Celts: A Contested Legacy
- IR23120 - Modern Irish (Language and Literature)
- LL31120 - Llydaweg: cyflwyniad
- CY10920 - Trafod y Byd Cyfoes twy'r Gymraeg
- CY11420 - Cymraeg Llyfr a Chymraeg Llafar
- CY34220 - Traddodiad Benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth 1400-1800
- CY34520 - Y Gynghanedd: Cwrs Trochi
- CYM6210 - Uwch Sgilau Golygu
- GC23120 - Gaeleg yr Alban: cyflwyniad i'r iaith
- IR10620 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language I
- IR32120 - Introduction to Scottish Gaelic Language and Literature
- IR32320 - Early Irish Saga Literature
- WEM1120 - Welsh Language 1
- WEM4220 - Women's Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400 - 1800
- CY01020 - Sylfaen Sgiliau Academaidd 1
- CY11220 - Beirdd a Llenorion o 1900 hyd heddiw
- CY11520 - Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg: cyfoes a hanesyddol
- CY13120 - Sgiliau Astudio Iaith a Llên
- CY20120 - Gloywi Iaith
- CY23120 - Y Cynfeirdd: o Taliesin i Heledd
- CY23420 - Y Chwedl Arthuraidd cyn 1200
- CY25620 - Y Gymraeg yn y Gweithle
- CY31120 - Gloywi Iaith yr Ail Iaith
- CY32320 - Cymraeg Ddoe a Heddiw: Cyflwyniad i ieithyddiaeth
- CY33620 - Rhyddiaith y Dadeni
- CYM5310 - Portffolio Cyfieithu 1 (Cyffredinol)
- CYM5520 - Cyfieithu ar Waith
- CYM7020 - Cyfieithu a Byd Busnes
- GC10120 - Gwyddeleg Modern: Cyflwyniad
- LL21120 - Llydaweg: Cyflwyniad
- CY12720 - Cyflwyniad i Gymraeg Proffesiynol
- CY24520 - Y Gynghanedd: Cwrs Trochi
- CY25320 - Rhyddiaith Tri Chwarter Canrif (1900-1979)
- CY33420 - Y Chwedl Arthuraidd cyn 1200
- CY35720 - Astudiaethau Trosi ac Addasu
- CY36120 - Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru
- CYM6310 - Hanfodion Isdeitlo
- IR11720 - Introduction to the Literature of Gaelic Ireland
- IR32220 - Princes, Priests and Poets: Reading Early Modern Gaelic Prose
- IRM0020 - Introduction to Scottish Gaelic Language and Literature
- MOR0320 - Sgiliau Ymchwil a Datblygiad Personol
- WEM0020 - The Mabinogion: Legendary and Arthurian Literature in Middle Welsh
- WEM0220 - Welsh Language 2
- WEM0520 - Early Medieval Welsh Poetry
- CY11120 - Themau a Ffigurau Llen c.550-1900
- CY20520 - Cymraeg y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CY24220 - Traddodiad benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth yng Nghymru 1400-1800
- CY25720 - Astudiaethau Trosi ac Addasu
- CY30320 - Gweithdai Ysgrifennu Creadigol
- CYM5720 - Meistroli Mynegiant yn y Gweithle Proffesiynol
- CYM5960 - Prosiect Estynedig
- IR32520 - Modern Irish (Language and Literature) 3+4
- IRM0320 - Comparative Celtic Philology
- IRM0620 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language I
- LL11120 - Llydaweg: Cyflwyniad
- WEM0320 - Reading Early Modern Gaelic Prose Texts
- CY01120 - Sylfaen Sgiliau Academaidd 2
- CY11720 - Ysgrifennu Cymraeg Graenus
- CY22320 - Cymraeg Ddoe a Heddiw: cyflwyniad i ieithyddiaeth
- CY26120 - Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru
- CY35620 - Y Gymraeg yn y Gweithle
- CYM5410 - Portffolio Cyfieithu 2 (Arbenigol)
- CYM5820 - Cyfieithu Creadigol Rhyngwladol
- CYM6110 - Cyflwyniad i Gyfieithu ar y Pryd
- GC11820 - Cymru a'r Celtiaid
- IR12220 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language II
- IR21920 - Old Irish (Language + Literature) 1+2
- IR22220 - Modern Irish (Language and Literature)
- IR33320 - Comparative Celtic Literature
- CY21420 - Cymraeg Llyfr a Chymraeg Llafar
- CY25420 - Barddoniaeth Tri Chwarter Canrif, 1900-1979
- CY35320 - Rhyddiaith Tri Chwarter Canrif, 1900-79
- CYM5110 - Datblygu Sgiliau Cyfieithu
- CYM6010 - Datblygu Sgiliau Cyfieithu (yn y Gweithle)
- CYM6420 - Cyfieithu ar y Pryd : Arfer ac Ymarfer
- CYM6510 - Ymarfer Cyfieithu a Golygu
- IR11920 - Introduction to Old Irish
- IRM0220 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- IRM2220 - Introduction to Modern Irish Language II
- MOR0510 - Dulliau Darllen
- WE11320 - Beginning Welsh ii
- WE11420 - Introduction to Welsh Literature
- WEM0460 - Dissertation: Welsh and Celtic Studies
- CY10020 - Cyflwyniad i Ysgrifennu Creadigol
- CY11020 - Ymwneud â'ch pwnc yn Gymraeg: sgiliau dwyieithog ar gyfer y brifysgol a'r gweithle
- CY20420 - Gweithdai Ysgrifennu Creadigol
- CY30420 - Portffolio Ysgrifennu Creadigol Annibynnol
- CY35420 - Barddoniaeth Tri Chwarter Canrif, 1900-79
- CY35940 - Prosiect Hir
- GC22120 - Gwyddeleg Modern (Iaith a Llên) 1+2
- IR11220 - Modern Irish Language and Literature for Non-Beginners
- IR22520 - Middle Irish Texts in Context
- IR33220 - Comparative Celtic Philology
- IRM0120 - Old Irish for Beginners
- WE11220 - Beginning Modern Welsh 1
- WEM0120 - Comparative Celtic Literature
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.