Staff

Dr Rhiannon Ifans BA, PhD (Wales)
Tucker Lecturer in History

Tel: (01570) 424765
Fax: (01570) 424996
e-mail: rhiannon.ifans@lamp.ac.uk

Research Interests

Dr Rhiannon Ifans’ main field of research is medieval Welsh literature, both poetry and prose. She is the foremost scholar working in the field of the Welsh carol and related texts, and as editor of the old-established and authoritative journal relating to Welsh folksong, Canu Gwerin, she has made a significant contribution to the publication of Welsh music and research. She has also published extensively on Welsh folk life and folk culture, Welsh theatre (with special reference to the eighteenth-century interludes), and new research by Dr Ifans proves that the first published literary volume by a woman was the work of Jane Ellis, an important milestone in the assessment of Welsh publishing. An award-winning children’s author, she is a regular participator at festivals and in schools and higher education institutions.
Selection of publications since 2006

Volumes

Gwaith Syr Dafydd Trefor (Aberystwyth, 2005), xxi + 250tt.
Y Golygiadur: llawlyfr ar gyfer awduron a golygyddion (Aberystwyth, 2006), 440tt.
Awstralia, Gwlad yr Aur: teithiau i Awstralia drwy lygad y baledwyr Cymraeg (Aberystwyth, 2008), 92tt.

Articles

Erthyglau ar ‘Anterliwt’ (t. 76), ‘Arawn’ (t. 79), ‘Canu gwasael’ (tt. 339–41), ‘Mari Lwyd’ (tt. 1260–1), ‘Welsh music [3] cerdd dant’ (tt. 1767–8) yn Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. John T. Koch (Santa Barbara, Calif.; Oxford: ABC-CLIO), 2006).
‘“Dynoliaeth a grewyd mor loyw …”: un arall o garolau plygain Jane Ellis’, Canu Gwerin, 29 (2006), 71–7.
‘Ar drywydd y gyfrol brintiedig gyntaf o waith llenyddol yn y Gymraeg gan ferch’ / ‘On the trail of the first literary volume published in Welsh by a woman’, inCynheiliaid y Gân: Teyrnged i Phyllis Kinney a Meredydd Evans / Bearers of Song: A Tribute to Phyllis Kinney and Meredydd Evans, eds Sally Harper and Wyn Thomas (Cardiff, 2007), 189–226.
‘“Y fferi fawr i ffair Fôn”: Cywydd Syr Dafydd Trefor “I fferi Porthaethwy”’, Dwned, xiii (2007), 169–84.
‘Sarah Jacob, Sarah Hughes, a gweithwyr ffatri yn swydd Ayr: lle merched ym maledi Huw Roberts “Pererin Môn”’, Canu Gwerin, 32 (2009) 23–40.
‘Golwg gyfoes ar y Canu Mai’, Canu Gwerin 32 (2009), 51–64.
Editor: Canu Gwerin, cyfrolau 24 (2001) hyd 32 (2009)

Forthcoming

Ymrysonau Syr Dafydd Trefor (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies).
‘Sarah Jacob, Sarah Hughes, and the factory workers of Ayrshire: women in the ballads of Huw Roberts “Pererin Môn”’ in Transactions of the 2008 International Ballad Conference.
‘Journeys to Australia through the eyes of the Welsh ballad-writers / Awstralia, Gwlad yr Aur: teithiau i Awstralia drwy lygad y baledwyr Cymraeg’ in Trivium (the Tucker Lecture series).
Review: Ioan Williams, Y Mudiad Drama yng Nghymru 1880–1940 (Caerdydd, 2006) in Welsh History Review.

Selection of lectures and readings since 2006

‘Dafydd Trefor, y bardd-offeiriad’, Cymdeithas Lenyddol Bro Goronwy, February 2006
‘Yn dyrfa weddus: traddodiad y canu plygain’, National Symposium to celebrate the centenary of the Welsh Folk Song Society, Cardiff, April 2006
‘Y diwydiant cyhoeddi yng Nghymru: canllawiau i awduron a golygyddion’, G^wyl Bedwen Lyfrau Cwlwm Cyhoeddwyr Cymru, Galeri Caernarfon, April 2006
‘Folk Poetry: its strength and dignity’, Conference on ‘Traditional and comtemporary folk performances in Britain’, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, June 2006
‘Y gyfrol brintiedig gyntaf o waith llenyddol yn y Gymraeg gan ferch: tystiolaeth newydd’, North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History International Conference on Welsh Studies, University of Wales Swansea, July 2006
‘Hosanna! dyma'r dydd: ushering in the festive season in Wales’, The Eighth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica / The Finnish Society for Celtic Studies, Helsinki, September 2006
‘Creating cultural partnerships in the Arts’, Ealann na Gaeltachta, Donegal, November 2006
Lecturer on the ‘Llên Gwerin Hen a Chyfoes: Patrymau Bywyd’ module in the Department of Welsh at the University of Wales Aberystwyth (2006–7)
Readings from the tales of theMabinogion at the National Library of Wales, February 2007
‘Songs of exile: Welsh ballads in Australia’, International Ballad Conference, Kyle of Lochalsh, August 2007
‘Pwy oedd Jane Ellis, Llanycil?’, Annual Lecture of Cymdeithas y Beiblau, Y Bala, November 2007
‘Y beirdd a’u cariad – y ffolant’, Cymdeithas y Cymmrodorion, Cardiff, February 2008
‘Agweddau ar arddull a themâu chwedlau’r Oesoedd Canol’, In-Post Training Day for Pembrokeshire secondary schoolteachers, Crymych, February 2008
‘Diweddaru testunau Cymraeg Canol’, In-Post Training Day for Pembrokeshire secondary schoolteachers, Crymych, February 2008
‘Awstralia, Gwlad yr Aur: teithiau i Awstralia drwy lygad y baledwyr Cymraeg’, Cliff Tucker Memorial Lecture, University of Wales Lampeter, March 2008
‘Hanes dwy Sarah: lle merched ym maledi Huw Roberts “Pererin Môn”’, International Ballad Conference, Cardiff, July 2008
‘Awstralia, gwlad y rhyddid’, Welsh Folk Song Society Annual Conference, Dolgellau, September 2008
‘Australia, Land of Gold – travels to Australia as noted in the Welsh ballads’, The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, October 2008
‘Village Carolling in Wales’, The Festival of Village Carols, Sheffield, November 2008
Tutoring the course ‘Editing for Print’ at The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, February–April 2009
Tutoring workshops on May Carolling at the Arad Goch Centre, Aberystwyth (28 February 2009), Welsh Folk Museum, St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff (4 April 2009), National Eisteddfod of Wales, Y Bala (5 August 2009)
Tutoring Welsh learners Level 5, University of Wales Lampeter, April 2009
‘Treiddio i’r adnabyddiaeth: penillion Ann Griffiths’, Ann Griffiths Memorial Day, Capel John Hughes, Pontrobert, August 2009