Wendy Hayes-Jones

Wendy Hayes-Jones is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of English Studies. Her main area of interest is African American literature - particularly the issues of identity and ethnicity in the works of Ishmael Reed - which is the current research focus of her PhD. Other areas of interest include nineteenth century and contemporary Slave Narratives which formed the subject of her MA thesis and currently inform her teaching. Wendy teaches undergraduate courses in Romanticism, Victorianism and Postmodernism.

Recent Conference Papers:

• ‘Black Irishman': Ishmael Reed and the game of Celtic Identity.' Conference on Transatlantic Connections: African Americans and the Celtic Nations, Swansea University (28 - 30 March 2007).

• ‘The Gender Wars in the works of Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker.' Paul Robeson Seminar Series, Swansea University (3 December 2008).

• 'Boxing on Paper': Deconstructing Masculinity in the Works of Ishmael Reed.' Conference on Celebrating Contemporary African American Literature: The Novel since 1988, Pennsylvania State University, USA (22-24th October 2009).