Dr Nerys Owen Williams BA, MA, DPhil.
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Biography:
| Nerys Williams joined the department in 2003. Her DPhil research focused on a reading of error and the lyric in the poetry of Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian and Michael Palmer. Having completed her DPhil at Sussex (2002) she worked as a lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin. She has also worked outside of academia in fields ranging from psychiatric nursing to BBC Cymru. |
Research Interests
| Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics; relationship between poetic practice and theory; recent Anglo-Welsh poetry. Her book length study of contemporary American Poetry and Poetics - Reading Error was published by Peter Lang at the close of 2007. She has recently completed a study of Contemporary Poetry for Edinburgh University Press (publication April 2011) and a volume of poetry with Seren press entitled Sound Archive - (publication March 2011) |
Books
Nerys Williams; (2011) Contemporary Poetry (Edinburgh Critical Guides). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.  [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2011) Sound Archive. Bridgend: Seren. [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2007) Reading Error: The Lyric and Contemporary American Poetry. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Nerys Williams; (2011) 'Poems' In: Andrew Motion (eds). The Forward Book of Poetry 2012 (Anthology). London: Faber/ Forward. [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2011) 'My tend sees errant, Vulnerable Chanceways: Maggie O'Sullivan's House of Reptiles and recent American Poetics' In: Chris Hamilton-Emery (eds). The Salt Companion to Maggie O'Sullivan. Cambridge: Salt. [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2010) 'Peter Finch: Recycling the avant-garde in a Welsh wordscape' In: Daniel G. Williams (eds). Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1970-2005. Bridgend: Seren Press. [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2004) ''A provisional poetics: Language Writing, erring and Lyn Hejinian's The Guard.'' In: Michael Hinds and Stephen Matterson (eds.)(New York; Amsterdam: Rodopi Press) (eds). Rebound: The American Poetry Book. Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Nerys Williams; (2011) 'Poetics'. Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory, 19 (1):159-172. [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2010) 'Poetics'. Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory, 18 (1):120-137. [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2009) 'Chronicling the half life of poetry: Robert Minhinnick, Gwyneth Lewis and John James's longer works'. Poetry Wales, . [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2010) 'Peter Finch: 'Make it New in Wales''. Angel Exhaust, 21 :121-130. [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2009) 'Entry- Charles Bernstein '. Literary Encyclopedia, . [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2009) 'The Monstrosity of the Long Poem'. Poetry Wales, . [Details] |
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| Nerys Williams; (2008) ''Jennifer Moxley's Deceitful Subjective''. Aufgabe Journal of Poetry, 7 . [Details] |
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| Nerys Williams; (2008) ''The Shopkeeper's Ledger' (poem)'. Poetry Wales, 43 (3). [Details] | |||||||||
| Williams, Nerys; (2006) 'Three Poems: 'The Dancing House', 'The Maestro', 'Escher's Lens''. Poetry Wales, 41 (4):26-30. [Details] | |||||||||
| Williams, Nerys; (2006) 'Poem 'The Dead Zoo''. Poetry Ireland Review, :26-27. [Details] |
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| Nerys Williams and Sarah MacLachlan; (2004) 'American Fiction Post 1945'. Years Work in English Studies, :*-*. [Details] |
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| Williams, Nerys; (2005) 'Interview with Peter Finch'. Poetry Wales, 40 (4):20-24. [Details] | |||||||||
| Williams, Nerys; (2004) 'Desire was a quotation from someone: Memory, Concealment and Modernism in Michael Palmer's lyric'. Irish Association of American Studies Journal, :58-72. [Details] | |||||||||
| Williams, N; (2003) 'Michael Palmer: Recovering a constellation of voices'. Poetry Wales, 39 :31-35. [Details] | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams and Sarah MacLachlan; (2003) 'American Fiction Post 1945'. Years Work in English Studies, . [Details] | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (1999) 'Close Listenings and Ghostlier demarcations'. Textual Practice, . [Details] | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (1996) 'Interview with Robert Hass during his period as American Poet Laureate - 'No Odes to Trade Embargoes''. Poetry Wales, . [Details] | |||||||||
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Other Journals
| Nerys Williams; (2003) ''Michael Palmer: Recovering a constellation of voices'' Poetry Wales . [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2003) ''John Davies: The Geography of Life Round Here' Poetry Wales . [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2003) ''Blasphemy and Taboo. Bilingualism and the poetry of Gwyneth Lewis'' Poetry Wales . [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2002) ''Duncan Bush: The Parasitic Art'' Poetry Wales . [Details] |
| Nerys Williams; (2002) ''Sheenagh Pugh: Exploring Fanfics, life studies and reanimating history'' Poetry Wales . [Details] |
Editorial
| Williams, N,Finch, P; (2005) Nerys Williams interviews Peter Finch. Editorial [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 2011. Title: Shorlisted for the Felix Dennis Forward First Volume Prize |
| Year: 2008. Title: Ted Mc Nulty Poetry Prize (Poetry Ireland) |
| Year: 2007. Title: Fulbright Scholar's Award |
| Year: 1997. Title: British Academy Postgraduate Research Award (1997-2000) |
| Year: 1993. Title: British Academy Postgraduate Award (1993-4) |
Conference Contributions
| Dr Nerys Williams; (2011) 'Inexpert, I notice with the attention and drifting inattention of poetry: Kaia Sand's poetics'. [Chaired Session], British Association for American Studies Annual Conference 2011, Preston , 14-APR-11 - 17-APR-11. |
| Nerys Williams; (2011) 'We hear the tune, you and I, / but inside our ears it is always a different one' (Peter Finch, 'Zen Cymru'): Negotiating experiment in Irish and Welsh contemporary poetry. [Invited Lecture], Wales-Ireland network, Department of English, Cardiff University , 24-JAN-11 - 24-JAN-11. |
| Nerys Williams; (2010) 'While the bird sang, like a shower of rain /they forgot about Bush and Saddam Hussein' Robert Minhinnick's representation of War from Wales. [International Refereed Conference], British and Irish Contemporary Poetry, Queen's University, Belfast , 15-SEP-10 - 17-SEP-10. |
| Nerys Williams; (2010) 'Huge protests continue, protests without alone and against alone': Juliana Spahr's anti-war poem this connection of everyone with lungs. [International Refereed Conference], European Association for American Studies Conference, Dublin , 26-MAR-10 - 29-MAY-10. |
| Nerys Williams; (2009) Transforming information as a site for poetic knowledge: Juliana Spahr and Robert Minhinnick. [Invited Oral Presentation], Placing Poetry, Bangor, Wales , 06-NOV-09 - 07-NOV-09. |
| Nerys Williams; (2008) Do not steal my words for your work: Michael Palmer's Baudelaire Series and Emmanuel Hocquard's Theory of Tables. [International Refereed Conference], Poetry and Translation, International Conference University of Stirling, University of Stirling, Scotland , 16-JUL-08 - 20-JUL-08. | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (2008) A series of correspondences: Reflections on collaboration and the long poem. [International Refereed Conference], Long Poem : Major Forms, University of Sussex, University of Sussex , 16-MAY-08 - 17-MAY-08. | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (2008) Pedagogical Poetics:Reading the poetry of Lyn Hejinian, Jennifer Moxley and Juliana Spahr. [Invited Lecture], English Seminar Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College English Seminar , 23-APR-08 - 23-APR-08. | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (2008) Pedagogical Poetics: Collaboration Between Theory and Practice, or Collective Doubt. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Pedagogy and Poetry Mater Dei Institute, Dublin, Mater Dei Institute Dublin , 01-FEB-08 - 01-FEB-08. | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (2007) Jennifer Moxley Post-Language Poetics and Afflicted Powers. [Invited Lecture], Graduate Seminar UCD, School of English, Drama and Film UCD , 07-NOV-07 - 07-NOV-08. | |||||||||
| Williams, Nerys; (2007) Peter Finch: Ideolects, Bilingualism and the Welsh avant garde. [International Refereed Conference], A New Global Poetics: Annual Conference: American Comparative Literatures Association, Puebla, Mexico , 04-APR-07 - 07-APR-07. | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (2004) 'Why can't I write a book called Fraud?'. [Invited Lecture], British Association of American Studies Conference, Manchester , 01-APR-04. | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (2003) 'Camouflage and Collage: Reading the poetry of Michael Palmer through Robert Duncan'. [International Refereed Conference], BAAS Annual Conference, Aberystwyth , 01-APR-03. | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (2003) 'The Poetry of Michael Palmer: Mechanisms of Concealment and The Promises of Glass.'. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Irish Association of American Studies Annual Conference, Dundalk , 01-APR-03. | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (2002) There is no one correct path': The Poetry of Lyn Hejinian. [Invited Lecture], English Research Seminar, Trinity College Dublin , 01-NOV-02. | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (2001) 'Then ego scriptor gets blotted out'. The lyric in Contemporary American Poetry.'. [Invited Oral Presentation], American Studies Research Seminar, Department of American Studies University of Sussex , 01-FEB-01. | |||||||||
| Nerys Williams; (2000) 'Introduction to the show me business: error and irony in the poetry of Charles Bernstein. [National Refereed Conference Paper], BAAS Annual Conference (2000), Swansea , 04-APR-00 - 07-APR-07. | |||||||||
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Committees
| Committee : College committee on Plagiarism Policy |
| Committee : School Teaching and Learning Group |
Employment
| Employer: University College Dublin Position: College Lecturer in American Literature |
| Employer: Trinity College Dublin Position: Temporary Lecturer |
Education
| Year 2002 Institution: University of Sussex Qualification: DPhil Subject: |
| Year 1993 Institution: University of Stirling Qualification: BA Subject: |
| Year 1994 Institution: University of Sheffield Qualification: MA Subject: |
Languages
| English: |
| Welsh: |
Outreach Activities
| Contributor: Off The Shelf RTE Radio 1 Discussion of The Letters of Saul Bellow edited by Benjamin Taylor , discussed by Nerys Williams and Stephen Matterson. Presenter: Andy O'Mahony. Producer: Bernadette Comerford TX: 22/10/2011 www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_offtheshelf.xml |
| Contributor: Arena RTE Radio 1. Interview re: volume of poetry Sound Archive. Presenter: Sean Rocks. Producer: Nuala O'Neill. TX: 28/04/2011. http://www.rte.ie/radio1/arena/archive1/2011/0428/arena_av.html?2950454,null,209 |
| Contributor: Sound Stories (Series 1) 'Living Doll- A Spoken Word Special' RTE Radio 1: Presenter: Luke Clancy. Producer: Kevin Brew TX: 01/10/2009 http://www.rte.ie/radio1/soundstories/1061086.html |
Reviews
| Year'S Work In Critical & Cultural Theory: Reviewer. |
Teaching Interests
| Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics (20-21st Centuries). Relationship between theory and praxis, manifesto essay and poetic practice. Politics and Poetics. Also teach elements of American modernist prose and postmodern writing of the eighties. Relationship between war and poetry |
Recent Postgraduates
| I have supervised @ 21 MA dissertations to completion as part of the MA in American Literature at UCD Research students: I am currently supervising the following research projects: Alan Hickey Narratives of Raymond Carver PhD Mark O'Leary Bergson and Robert Frost PhD Damien Lennon Eliot and Joyce (with Professor Anne Fogarty) PhD Ciaran Lawless Decayed Modernism : The Fiction of William H Gass (with Dr Ron Callan) PhD |