M. Wynn Thomas OBE FEA FLSW FBA is a Professor of English at Swansea University and holds the Emyr Humphreys Chair of Welsh Writing in English at Swansea University. His expertise is in American poetry and modern Welsh literature.
Career
Thomas graduated from Swansea University in 1965 with a BA in English, and after starting his postgraduate studies, he was appointed a member of staff at Swansea University at the age of just 21, and spent much of his academic career working there. Alongside teaching English, Thomas was the founder and former director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW) at Swansea University.
Away from his work at Swansea University, Thomas was the former Chairman of the Books Council of Wales, the former Chairman of the Welsh Arts Council's Literature Committee, and the former Chairman of the Welsh Academy of Writers, Yr Academi Gymreig.
Honours
1996 - Elected Fellow of the British Academy
2000 - Elected Fellow of Yr Academi Gymreig
2000 - Received highest honour of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
2010 - Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
Selected works
Thomas, M. Wynn (1987). The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. ISBN 978-0-674-53952-4 Thomas, M. Wynn (2009). In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-1-783-16477-6 Thomas, M. Wynn (2009). Transatlantic Connections: Whitman US, Whitman UK. Iowa: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-925-8
References
Living people
Alumni of Swansea University
Academics of Swansea University
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales
Year of birth missing (living people)