吾爱吃瓜

I am a Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, specialising in modern and contemporary English Literature, especially in relation to two areas: the English-language literature of Wales; and Ecocriticism, specifically the cultural representation of climate change and environmental crisis. I joined 吾爱吃瓜 in January 2012, having previously held positions at Swansea and Birmingham Universities. I was an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced 吾爱吃瓜 at Warwick University in 2010, where I finished my PhD in the same year.

Name: Dr Andrew Webb

Position: Senior Lecturer in Modern English Literature

Email: a.webb@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: 01248 388624

Location: Room 308, New Arts

I teach a broad range of modern English literature from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period. At undergraduate level, I convene 'Exploring Modern and Contemporary Writing', an Honours-level module which offers a survey of twentieth and twenty-first century literature. I also convene 'Alternative Worlds,: Sci-Fi, Speculative and Young Adult Fiction', 'Writing Wales, Writing Ireland' and 'Climate Change in Contemporary Culture'. As Masters-level, I convene the team-taught core research skills module and the module on 'This World: Going Global'.

In the past, I have offered undergraduate modules in world-literature, and Modern Four-Nations Literature, which takes a comparative approach to texts from the range of nations and regions within these islands. I contribute lectures to a range of other modules, including Exploring Romantic and Victorian Literature, Children's Fictions, and I supervise final-year undergraduate dissertations in a range of areas. In my first year at Bangor, I was awarded New Teacher of the Year at Bangor鈥檚 Student-Led Teaching Awards, and have since been nominated for Teacher of the Year.

I supervise students at PhD level in a range of areas mainly focused on Ecocriticism and Welsh writing in English, and am always interested in fielding enquiries from students interested in pursuing research in these areas, or related areas of modern literature in English.聽聽聽

My research interests lie in two areas: Ecocriticism and the English-language literature of Wales.聽

I am interested in the way that literature, film and other forms of cultural expression represent and intervene in contemporary debates about the relation between humans and the environment. This especially includes the ways in which public perception of aspects of climate change -decarbonisation, food production, landscape and global justice - are registered and influenced by literature, film and language.

In recent years, I have presented my research all over Wales, the UK, and further afield, including in the US and in Japan. I am Editor of the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English, Series Co-Editor for the Writers of Wales series, a Patron of the Association for Welsh Writing in English, and was proud to be one of the judges on the Wales Book of the Year Award (English-language categories).

2025

• Published
  Webb, A., 28 Mar 2025, In: International Journal of Welsh Writing in English.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2024

• Published
  Forino, G., Yorke, L., Del Pinto, M., Griffiths, H., Barker, L., Bates, M., Brummage, S., Davies, S., Patterson, C., Roberts, H., Robinson, G. & Webb, A., 18 Sept 2024, Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers .
  Research output: Other contribution 鈥� peer-review
• Accepted/In press
  Webb, A., 18 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of European Studies / Studii Europene .
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
• Unpublished
  Webb, A., 23 May 2024, (Unpublished).
  Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper 鈥� peer-review
• Unpublished
  Webb, A., 17 Jan 2024.
  Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper

2023

• Published
  Webb, A., 10 May 2023.
  Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper 鈥� peer-review
• Unpublished
  Webb, A., 8 Jun 2023, (Unpublished).
  Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper 鈥� peer-review

2022

• Unpublished
  Webb, A., 9 Nov 2022, (Unpublished).
  Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
• Unpublished
  Webb, A., 7 Sept 2022, (Unpublished).
  Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper 鈥� peer-review
• Unpublished
  Webb, A., 8 Jul 2022, (Unpublished) Blue Extinction Conference, Sheffield Uni, July 2022.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Conference contribution 鈥� peer-review

2020

• Published
  Webb, A., Feb 2020, New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas. 鈥淎 writer of words, and nothing else鈥�?. Smith, K. & Barfoot, R. (eds.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, (Writing Wales in English).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review

2019

• Published
  Webb, A., 28 Feb 2019, Cambridge History of Welsh Literature. Evans, G. & Fulton, H. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 529-556 27 p.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
• Published
  Webb, A., Apr 2019, Locating Lynette Roberts: `Always Observant and Slightly Obscure'. McAvoy, S. (ed.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, (Writing Wales in English).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
• Published
  Webb, A., 15 Apr 2019, Locating Lynette Roberts: Always Observant and Slightly Obscure. McAvoy, S. (ed.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, p. 83-99 17 p. (Writing Wales in English).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review

2018

• Published
  Webb, A., Nov 2018, Edward Thomas and Wales. Towns, J. (ed.). Cardigan: Parthian Books, p. 193-216 23 p.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review

2017

• Published
  Webb, A. (Other), 7 Apr 2017
  Research output: Non-textual form 鈥� Web publication/site
• Published
  Webb, A., 2017, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. 2017 ed. Harvard: Harvard University Press, Vol. 37.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter

2016

• Published
  Webb, A. S., 15 Jun 2016, Queer Wales: The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales. Osborne, H. (ed.). University of Wales Press, p. 115-126
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter

2013

• Published
  Webb, A. S., 1 Jan 2013, University of Wales Press.
  Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
• Published
  Webb, A. S., Nally, C. (Editor) & Smith, A. (Editor), 30 Apr 2013, Naked Exhibitionism: Gendered Performance and Public Exposure. I.B.Tauris, p. 86-108
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter

2012

• Published
  Webb, A. S., 24 Dec 2012, In: Textual Practice. p. 1103-1123
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2009

• Published
  Webb, A. S., 1 Jul 2009, In: European Journal of American Culture. 28, 2, p. 167-183
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2024

• I am co series editor for Writers of Wales monograph series, publishing on average one monograph per year (from 2014 to present).

  1 Sep 2024

  Activity: Editorial activity (Editor)

• A public talk on oil in Welsh culture as part of the Shankland Series of Lectures, held at Bangor Uni on 17.1.24

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  17 Jan 2024

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)

2023

• Welsh Fictions: Extraction, Energy, and Environmental Justice

  29 Aug 2023 鈥� 1 Sep 2023

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

• inaugural member of the Welsh Energy Humanities Network (April 2023 - date)

  25 Apr 2023

  Activity: Membership of network (Member)

2022

• Sole Editor

  1 Oct 2022 鈥� 1 Oct 2025

  Activity: Editorial activity (Editor)

• Invited Panel Chair

  8 Sep 2022 鈥� 11 Sep 2022

  Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)

• Co-organiser of Writing Welsh Environments Conference, May 2023

  12 May 2022 鈥� 14 May 2022

  Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)

2017

• Plenary Talk on Edward Thomas 吾爱吃瓜 Day, Oxford University Dept for Continuing Education, October 2017

  Oct 2017

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

• Plenary Lecture

  20 Apr 2017

  Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

• Shankland Lecture Series

  31 Jan 2017

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

• 2017

  Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)

2016

• Co-Editor of the Writers of Wales series

  2016 鈥� 2019

  Activity: Publication peer-review (Editor)

2015

• From time to time, I have peer review proposed monographs for the University of Wales Press.

  2015 鈫�

  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)

2014

• 2014 鈫�

  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)

• 01/09/2022 鈥� 16/08/2023 (Finished)

• 01/10/2012 鈥� 30/09/2017 (Finished)

• 03/10/2011 鈥� 01/10/2012 (Finished)

• 24/05/2011 鈥� 31/08/2012 (Finished)

• 01/10/2010 鈥� 15/04/2011 (Finished)

• 01/06/2010 鈥� 13/08/2011 (Finished)

• 01/01/2010 鈥� 31/10/2017 (Finished)

  Links:

• 01/10/2009 鈥� 10/07/2017 (Finished)

  Links:

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• 01/07/2009 鈥� 31/05/2010 (Finished)

• 01/04/2008 鈥� 27/12/2009 (Finished)

• 29/02/2008 鈥� 31/07/2009 (Finished)

  Description

  Medievalism Transformed is an annual event hosted by 吾爱吃瓜, School of English, that aims to explore the medieval world and its sustained impact on subsequent culture and thought. It brings together postgraduates and early career researchers from across the United Kingdom and worldwide.

  This conference is unique not only because it welcomes research from a multitude of medieval studies鈥� disciplines, but also because of its interest in the sustained fascination with and impact of the Middle Ages in later centuries.

  Links:

• 24/01/2008 鈥� 10/07/2009 (Finished)

• 01/07/2007 鈥� 14/06/2013 (Finished)

• 01/07/2006 鈥� 30/06/2008 (Finished)

• 01/10/2005 鈥� 31/07/2009 (Finished)

  Links:

• 05/07/2004 鈥� 23/07/2008 (Finished)

• 01/04/2002 鈥� 31/08/2013 (Finished)

I have held various administrative positions in the School and College, including a five-year stint as Head of School from 2016-21, a three-year period as College Director of Teaching and Learning, and from - 2013-16 鈥� time as a member of the steering committee for the University's Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT).