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 Bangor University in January 2012, having previously held positions at Swansea and Birmingham Universities. I was an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study 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’s 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.   

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

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).

I am interested in supervising projects in the fields of Ecocriticism, of Welsh writing in English, and in related fields on modern literature in English.

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  • Cyhoeddwyd'"Tawe pressed in upon him": Dylan Thomas, Modernity and the Rural-Urban Divide
    Webb, A., Chwef 2020, New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas. “A writer of words, and nothing else”?. Smith, K. & Barfoot, R. (gol.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, (Writing Wales in English).
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

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  • CyhoeddwydWales in the Poetry of Edward Thomas
    Webb, A., Tach 2018, Edward Thomas and Wales. Towns, J. (gol.). Cardigan: Parthian Books, t. 193-216 23 t.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

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  • Writers of Wales Monograph series, University of Wales Press (Cyhoeddwr)

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

    1 Medi 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd)
  • Oil in Welsh Culture

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

    https://www.bangor.ac.uk/stephen-colclough-centre/shankland-lectures-2023

    17 Ion 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr)

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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 – time as a member of the steering committee for the University's Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT).