Daniel G. Williams

Daniel G. Williams is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales at Swansea University. He was educated at the University of East Anglia, Harvard University, and Cambridge University (King’s College).

He is the author of Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Arnold to Du Bois (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales (University of Wales Press, 2012) and Wales Unchained (2015). He has edited Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1970-2005 (Seren, 2010), Canu Caeth: Affro-Americaniaid a’r Cymry (Gomer, 2010), co-edited (with Alyce von Rothkirch) Beyond the Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts (University of Wales Press, 2004), co-edited (with Kirsti Bohata) Transatlantic Vistas: On the Literatures of Wales and the United States (Univeristy of Wales Press, 2024) and edited a collection of Raymond Williams’s writings, Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity (University of Wales Press, 2003) with a Centenary Edition published in 2021. His latest edited book is The Werner Sollors Reader (Edinburgh Univeristy Press, 2025).

He is general editor of the Welsh-language cultural studies series ‘Safbwyntiau’ (2012 - ) and co-edits (with Kirsti Bohata) the CREW series of monographs ‘Writing Wales in English’ (both University of Wales Press).

He is also saxophonist with the jazz-folk sextet ‘Burum’ who have recorded four albums: Alawon: The Songs of Welsh Folk (Fflach, 2007), Caniadau (Bopa, 2012), Llef (Bopa. 2016), Eneidiau (Bopa, 2021).