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The Festival of the Wolf: G'wyl y Blaidd
Poetry, fiction and drama and testimony by refugees and asylum seekers, side by side with other writers in Wales, past and present.
206 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2006
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About the author
Tom Cheeseman
2 booksTom Cheesman is Reader in German, a member of the Modern Languages Admissions Team, and a College of Arts and Humanities Unfair Practice Representative.
Tom is Principal Investigator on the collaborative, multi-disciplinary ‘Version Variation Visualisation’ project: details at www.delightedbeauty.org. This project, investigating Digital Humanities approaches to analysing the multiplicity of Shakespeare re-translations, is currently funded by the Research Institute of Arts and Humanities and supported by ABBYY and Wolfestone Translation.
Other current research projects include: edited book on Feridun Zaimoglu (co-edited with Karin Yesilada); edited book on German ‘Text Crimes’, literary-legal controversies since the 1950s; and critical work on the concepts of cosmopolitanism and super-diversity.
Tom was the Principal Researcher on the Axial Writing Project (1998-2002), part of the ESRC Transnational Communities Research Programme.
With Eric Ngalle Charles and Sylvie Hoffmann, Tom established non-profit Hafan Books in 2003, to publish literary texts by refugees in Wales, alongside work by other writers. Tom is Treasurer of Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group.
He is an associate of the Centre for Contemporary German Culture, the Centre for Migration Policy Research, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
Tom is Principal Investigator on the collaborative, multi-disciplinary ‘Version Variation Visualisation’ project: details at www.delightedbeauty.org. This project, investigating Digital Humanities approaches to analysing the multiplicity of Shakespeare re-translations, is currently funded by the Research Institute of Arts and Humanities and supported by ABBYY and Wolfestone Translation.
Other current research projects include: edited book on Feridun Zaimoglu (co-edited with Karin Yesilada); edited book on German ‘Text Crimes’, literary-legal controversies since the 1950s; and critical work on the concepts of cosmopolitanism and super-diversity.
Tom was the Principal Researcher on the Axial Writing Project (1998-2002), part of the ESRC Transnational Communities Research Programme.
With Eric Ngalle Charles and Sylvie Hoffmann, Tom established non-profit Hafan Books in 2003, to publish literary texts by refugees in Wales, alongside work by other writers. Tom is Treasurer of Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group.
He is an associate of the Centre for Contemporary German Culture, the Centre for Migration Policy Research, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
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