Research
The English Department is committed to high quality research, and staff are involved in a variety of research related activities. Recent staff publications include Rebecca Ferguson's book Rewriting Black Identities: Transition and Exchange in the Novels of Toni Morrison, which received a recognition award from the Toni Morrison Society in America. Peter Mitchell’s study The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy and Theology (2007) and Helen Vella Bonavita’s edition of Caelivs Secvndus Curio his Historie of the Warr in Malta, trans. Thomas Mainwaringe (Renaissance English Text Society, 2007). Details of individuals' research activities can be found on their webpages.
Trivium Publications
Trivium Publications forms the main part of the corporate publications programme at Lampeter. This consists of three series: the arts and humanities journal Trivium, the series of Trivium occasional papers, and the Tucker Lecture Series. Professor Janet Burton of the History Department and Dr William Marx of the English Department are currently general editors, and Carol Déry is editorial assistant, for all three series.
Lampeter’s arts and humanities journal Trivium was established in 1966 and has a continuous history of publication since then. Individual volumes of Trivium are designed to focus on particular themes or issues. Volume 35, Readers, Printers, Churchmen, and Travellers, is a collection of papers mostly by members of different departments at Lampeter and is concerned with material in Lampeter’s antiquarian library known at The Founders’ Library. Volume 37, The Nature and Culture of the Human Body, was edited by Peter Mitchell of the English Department and is a collection of essays focusing on images and ideas about the body in a range of disciplines, from anthropology, to literature, to book illustration.
The series of occasional papers publishes individual pieces of work that are too substantial for a journal article and address subjects of special interest.
The Tucker Lecture Series is based in the English Department and is sponsored by a bequest to the Department from the late A. E. Dyson, the eminent literary critic and scholar, to honour the memory of his partner Cliff Tucker, who, a graduate of the History Department, was himself a major benefactor to Lampeter. The Dyson bequest stipulates that each year the English Department should invite a major scholar or critic to deliver a public lecture on the work of one of a number of poets specified in a list drawn up by A. E. Dyson. These range in date from Henry Vaughan to R. S. Thomas. Each lecture is to be published, and we have established the ‘Tucker Lecture Series’ for this purpose. The first publication is Ned Thomas’s lecture on Matthew Arnold, and is available from the Department of English at Lampeter.
For information on any aspect of Trivium Publications please contact Carol Déry c/o The Library, University of Wales, Lampeter; or by e-mail: c.dery@lamp.ac.uk
Middle English Texts
The Department of English at Lampeter is the home in Britain of a major international project known as Middle English Texts which makes available previously unpublished medieval texts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The series is published in Heidelberg by one of the leading university presses in Germany, Carl Winter. William Marx of the English Department at Lampeter is the senior general editor; the other two editors are Dr Margaret Connolly of the University of St Andrews and Professor Hans Sauer of the University of Munich. Middle English Texts was founded in 1975 and has so far published 40 volumes. The series provides opportunities for postgraduate students at Lampeter to select research projects in the field of textual editing that can be directed to publication in Middle English Texts. The series editors are open to proposals from established scholars and from those who are beginning their academic careers.
For information on Middle English Texts, the latest prospectus of projects published and in preparation, as well as the pamphlet Notes for Editors, please contact: Dr William Marx, Reader in Medieval Literature, Department of English, University of Wales, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, SA48 7ED; or by e-mail: w.marx@lamp.ac.uk
