'Pioneering Criticism'
Professor Matthew Jarvis FLSW is a writer, critic and poet. His scholarship focuses mainly on English-language poetry in Wales since the 1960s and he has supplementary interests in British avant-garde poetry of the same period.
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He is particularly interested in environmental approaches to literature and in ideas about the literary construction of Welsh space and place. His work has been described as 'pioneering criticism' by Professor Jeremy Hooker.
Matthew is Professor and Anthony Dyson Fellow in Poetry in the Faculty of Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. At Aberystwyth University he works in the Department of English & Creative Writing, is Deputy Head of the University's Graduate School, and is also Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Matthew is co-Chair of the Association for Welsh Writing in English and for a long time led the editorial team of the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English. He has been Chair of the Poetry Wales Committee and currently chairs the Publishing Development Subcommittee (English Language) of the Books Council of Wales .
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For the Learned Society of Wales, Matthew has produced reports on the sector-wide health of Wales Studies and on the implementation of the 'Welsh perspective and international perspective' within the new Welsh curriculum . He was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2019.
Matthew is a former winner of the M. Wynn Thomas Prize. He also won the Aberystwyth University SU Lecturer of the Year award in 2018. His first poetry pamphlet was published by Cinnamon Press in 2020.