Kirsti Bohata

Kirsti Bohata FLSW FHEA is a Professor at Swansea University and a scholar in the field of Welsh Writing in English.^[1] She has published on postcolonial theory, queer literature, disability studies and literary geography from the nineteenth century to the present.^[2]

She was elected as a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2018.^[3]

She graduated from Durham University with a first class BA (Hons) in English Literature; her PhD in Welsh Writing in English was awarded in 2003 by Swansea University.^[4]

Following her PhD, she worked as a Publishing Grants Officer at the Books Council of Wales until 2007, when she joined Swansea University as an Associate Professor.^[5] Since 2017, she has been a Professor of English Literature at Swansea University.^[2]

She is the Director of CREW (the Centre for Research into the English Literature and English Language of Wales) at Swansea University and co-chair of the Association of Welsh Writing in English.^[6][7] She serves in advisory roles to the Arts Council of Wales, Literature Wales, and Arts and Humanities Research Council.^[2]

Her projects have received support and funding from the Wellcome Trust, Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the British Academy.^[2]

• Bohata, Kirsti (2009). Postcolonialism Revisited: Writing Wales in English. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0708322369.
• Bohata, Kirsti; Jones, Alexandra, eds (2019). Welsh Women's Industrial Fiction 1880-1910. Abingdon: Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-0429330865.
• Bohata, Kirsti; Jones, Alexandra; Mantin, Mike; Thompson, Steven (2019). Disability in industrial Britain:: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1526124326.
• Bohata, Kirsti; Gramich, Katie (2013). Rediscovering Margiad Evans: Marginality, Gender and Illness. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0708325612