Professor Gweno Williams
Professor of Creative Arts Education, National Teaching
Fellow
Modules
Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Renaissance Theatre,
MA in Contemporary Literature, British Literature:
Professor Gweno Williams teaches Shakespeare
and Renaissance literature, women’s writing, contemporary British
literature and modules designed to help students develop their
writing skills and their future career prospects. She runs a
number of collaborative and creative projects involving students
and is YSJU's Royal Literary Fund Co-ordinator.
She has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for her
pioneering work involving undergraduates in original research.
Research Interests
Gweno Williams' research specialism is early modern
theatre and dramatic production by women. She founded and leads the
Margaret Cavendish Performance Project and co-founded the
interdisciplinary research project: Women & Dramatic
Production: 1550-1670. Her DVD and video publications have won
international awards. Other recent theatre work includes producing
medieval Mystery Plays staged on wagons in the City of
York.
Publications
- Gweno has published a range of articles and chapters on early
modern women's involvement with drama and co-authored a monograph
(with Alison Findlay and Stephanie Hodgson-Wright) Women
and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 pp95-122 (Longman Medieval and
Renaissance Library, 2000)Gweno has recently completed work on a
3.5 hour DVD entitled Margaret Cavendish: Plays in
Performance (2004) (pictured left).
- Co-authored 90 minute video Women Dramatists
1550-1670: Plays in Performance (with Alison Findlay and
Stephanie Hodgson-Wright) (Lancaster, Lancaster University
Television 1999) which won the Society for the Study of Early
Modern Women Award for the Outstanding Collaborative Project
of 1999.