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The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling - Canolfan Adrodd Storiau George Ewart Evans

Publications

Books

Fyfe, H. ‘She Danced and We Danced’: Artists, Creativity and Education. Belfast: The Stranmillis Press. 2003.

Ryan, P. Shakespeare’s Storybook, Folk Tales that Inspired the Bard. Bath: Barefoot Books. 2001.

Wilson, M. Performance and Practice: Oral Narrative Traditions Among Teenagers in Britain and Ireland. Aldershot: Ashgate. 1992

Wilson, M. Storytelling and Theatre: Contemporary Professional Storytellers and their Art. ‘Theatre and Performance Practices’ Series, Palgrave. 2005.

Wilson, M and R. J. Hand. Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror. ‘Studies in Performance’ Series, University of Exeter Press. 2002.

Wilson, M. and R. J. Hand. London’s Grand-Guignol and the Theatre of Horror. ‘Studies in Performance’ Series, University of Exeter Press. 2007. (forthcoming)

Book chapters

Fyfe, H. ‘The New Focus on Creativity in Culture and Development Policies’ in Developing New Instruments to Meet Cultural Policy Challenges Fisher, R. (ed), Chulalongkorn University Press, Bangkok. 2005.

Ryan, P. ‘Storytelling’ The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children’s Literature, Jack Zipes and Kimberley Reynolds (eds), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004

Ryan, P. ‘Storytelling Overseas’ Storytelling Art and Technique, Ellin Green and Janice Del Negro (eds), Libraries Unlimited, 2010

Wilson, M. ‘Telling It As It Is: storytelling in the china clay villages’. In Cornwall: The Cultural Construction of Place, Ella Westland (ed.), Penzance:Patten Press/Institute of Cornish Studies, 1997. pp.143–53.

Wilson, M. and O. Double. ‘Brecht and Cabaret’, in The Cambridge Companion to Brecht (second edition), Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2006. pp.40–61.

Selected academic journal papers

Ryan, P. ‘Celticity and the Storyteller Identity: The Use and Misuse of Ethnicity to Develop a Storyteller’s Sense of Self’ Folklore. December 2006

Ryan, P. ‘The Storyteller in Context’ Storytelling Self and Society, (forthcoming)

Wilson, M. ‘The Imagined Self: (Re)presentations of Identity and Persona in Contemporary Professional Storytelling’, Journal of American Folklore. 2007. (forthcoming)

Wilson, M. ‘Karl Valentin’s “Father and Son Discuss the War”’ (with Dr. Oliver
Double, University of Kent), Studies in Theatre and Performance, 27:1, 2007. pp. 5–11.

Reports

Fyfe, H. ‘Changing Spaces Building Social Capital in Wales through Cross-Sector Creativity’ . Welsh Assembly: Cardiff. 2005

Selected conference papers and lectures

Fyfe, H. ‘Storytelling and Learning: Towards a New Pedagogy’. Keynote Speech to ‘Storytelling, Learning and Community Development Conference’, Bunclody, County Wexford, Ireland (Invited Keynote Speech) Nov 2005.

Fyfe, H. ‘“Habits of the Heart” Storytelling and Everyday Life’ George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling Research Seminar. University of Glamorgan. June 2007.

Fyfe, H. ‘Cycles of Affirmation: Art and Community in the New Century.’ Inaugural Professorial Lecture. University of Glamorgan. November 2007.

Ryan, P. ‘Once Upon A Time Into Altered States’ International Board on Books for Young People conference. Guatemala City, Guatemala. August 2006
Published in Time Everlasting, Representations of Past, Present and Future in Children’s
Literature
, Pat Pinsent (ed.), Pied Piper Press, 2007.

Ryan, P. ‘Fallen Between the Cracks?.....’ UEA conference, “The Fairy Tale After Angela Carter” April 2009

Ryan, P. ’ ‘A Jest’s Prosperity…’—Storytelling and Shakespeare’ National Association of Writers in Education Conference, Southampton, November 2009
Published in Writing in Education, NAWE, Issue Number 50 Spring 2010

Ryan, P. Plenary Speaker, ‘Using Storytelling and Creative Writing with Students to Explore and Study Shakespeare’ Writers Forum, Writers-in-Schools/Poetry Ireland Conference, Dublin, February 2010

Wilson, M. ‘The Imagined Self: (Re)presentations of Identity and Persona in Contemporary Professional Storytelling’, Storytelling and Cultural Identity International Conference, Terceira, Azores (organized by Brock University, Canada). Attendance supported by British Academy Overseas Conference Grant. June 2005.

Wilson, M. ‘New Developments: Storytelling projects that challenge boundaries’, Keynote Speech to ‘Storytelling, Learning and Community Development Conference’, Bunclody, County Wexford, Ireland (Invited Keynote Speech) Nov 2005.

Wilson, M. ‘Storytelling and its Value for Organisations’, seminar for National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare (Wales). Feb 2006.

Wilson, M. ‘Not By Bread Alone: The Necessity for Stories in Everyday Life’, Childcare Network Loch Garman Conference, Wexford, Ireland. (Invited Keynote Speech) April 2006.

Wilson, M. ‘Some Thoughts on Performer Identity in Contemporary Professional Storytelling’, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling Research Lecture Series #1, University of Glamorgan. April 2006.

Wilson, M. ‘Storytelling and Higher Education: The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of Glamorgan’, Research Seminar for education staff at University of Wales Institute Cardiff. April 2006

Wilson, M. ‘Story-Literacy and the Failure of Ideas: Storytelling in Higher Education’, Value-added Tales Conference, Northern Centre for Storytelling, Grasmere, Cumbria (Invited Keynote Speech) June 2006.

Wilson, M. ‘The Serious Business of Translating Comedy Performance’, presentation to Faculty Research Round Table, Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan. October 2006.

Wilson, M. ‘The Grand Guignol in London, 1920–22’, Guest lecture at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum, USA. Nov 2006.

Wilson, M. ‘Storytelling and Higher Education’, Storytellers of Ireland A.G.M., Dublin, Ireland (Invited Keynote Speech). Nov 2006.

Wilson, M. ‘The Wise Fools of Contemporary Storytelling’, The First International Conference on the Wise Fool, University of Malta. Dec 2006.

Wilson, M. ‘1877 and all that: Episodes of Death, rebirth and Intrigue and all that at the Theatre Royal, Cardiff’, Professorial Inaugural Lecture, University of Glamorgan. Jan 2007.

Wilson, M. ‘Why Stories Matter – Looking at things through the narrative lens’, Research Seminar, University of Central Lancashire. Jan 2007.

Wilson, M. ‘Who’s Afraid of the Written Text’, Society for Storytelling Annual Conference. April 2007.

Wilson, M. ‘Storytelling and Ideology: what the stories we tell, tell us’, Well-Spoken: Storytelling and Narrative in Healthcare Conference, University of Central Lancashire/Northern Centre for Storytelling, Grasmere, Cumbria (Invited Keynote Speech) June 2007.

Wilson, M. ‘Storytelling and Ideology: what the stories we tell, tell us’, Invited keynote for Well-Spoken: Storytelling and Narrative in Healthcare Conference, University of Central Lancashire/Northern Centre for Storytelling, Grasmere, Cumbria. June 2007.

Wilson, M. ‘Rage Against the Machine: the uneasy alliance between storytelling and technology from the printing press to G4’, Beyond the Border Wales International Storytelling Festival. July 2007.

Wilson, M. ‘The Narrative Itch: Why we need stories and how Digital Storytelling might be a useful tool for communication, advocacy and delivery of the dignity agenda’, Seminar for Cancer Experiences Collaborative (collaboration between Southampton, Liverpool, Lancaster, Manchester and Nottingham Universities), University of Southampton. Sep 2007

Wilson, M. ‘Digital Storytelling and the Development of a Knowledge Exchange Partnership with BBC Wales’, Address to Technology Strategy Board, London. Nov 2007.

Wilson, M. ‘Passing Through the Chink in Snout’s Wall: Daniel Morden and The Devil’s Violin’, Storytelling in Contemporary Theatre Conference, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Nov 2007.

Journal editorships

Fyfe, H. Art and Communities (editor), published by Intellect.

Wilson, M. Papyrus (series co-editor) – an occasional series of internationally refereed research papers on the theory and practice of storytelling, published by Daylight Press and, from 2005, the University of Glamorgan Press, on behalf of the Society for Storytelling.

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