M. Wynn Thomas

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. 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. Thomas, M. Wynn (2009). In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. Thomas, M. Wynn (2009). Transatlantic Connections: Whitman US, Whitman UK. Iowa: University of Iowa Press.