Jane Rhiannon Aaron FEA

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(born 26 September 1951) is a Welsh

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, literary researcher and writer. She was Professor of English at the

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in south Wales, until her retirement in September 2011. She then became an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations at the

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. Aaron is known for her research and publications on Welsh literature and the writings of Welsh women. She was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011.

Biography and research

Aaron was born on 26 September 1951 in

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. Her father was the philosopher Richard Ithamar Aaron and his wife Annie Rhiannon Morgan. She graduated in English at the University of Wales, Swansea (1970–1973) and then studied at

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, where she gained a

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in 1980. In 1993, she was appointed Senior Lecturer of English at the

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. She became Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, in 1999, remaining there until her retirement in 2011. Since the early 1990s, Aaron has published a number of essays and books, and edited works for Honno Press, which specializes in the writings of Welsh women.Publisher's page. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
/ref> In 1999 she edited Honno's anthology of short stories entitled, ''A View Across the Valley: Short Stories from Women in Wales 1850–1950''. In 1998, Aaron herself produced ''Pur Fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llen Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg'', an account in Welsh of the contribution by women to 19th-century Welsh literature. For this she received the Ellis Griffith Memorial Prize in 1999. She also wrote ''Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity'' (2007), for which she was awarded the Roland Mathias Prize in 2009.

Selected works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Jane 1951 births Living people Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Academics of the University of Glamorgan People associated with the University of South Wales Alumni of Swansea University People from Aberystwyth 20th-century Welsh educators 21st-century Welsh educators 20th-century Welsh women writers 21st-century Welsh women writers 20th-century Welsh writers 21st-century Welsh writers 20th-century Welsh women educators 21st-century Welsh women educators Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales