Publications

RESEARCH DATABASES

• LlongauUBoat. Eds. Rita Singer, Geoffrey Hickings and Helen Rowe. Casgliad y Werin Cymru / People’s Collection Wales. 2019. https://www.peoplescollection.wales/users/29486
• Accounts of Travel: Travel Writing by European Visitors to Wales. Eds. Rita Singer, Kathryn N. Jones, Carol Tully and Heather Williams. European Travellers to Wales, 1750-2010. Bangor University, Bangor. 2013-2017. etw.bangor.ac.uk/about-database

EDITED WORKS

• Spooner, Louisa Matilda. Country Landlords. 1860. Ed. Rita Singer. Welsh Women’s Classics. Aberystwyth: Honno Press, forthcoming.
• ‘Minoritised Languages and Travel’ special collection in Modern Languages Open, 2023(1).
• Ports, Past and Present: Stories of the Irish Sea. Eds. Rita Singer, Peter Merriman, Rhys Jones. Aberystwyth: Aberystwyth University, 2023. DOI: 10.7486/DRI.qz216k63t
• Richards, Thomas. Rob the Red-Hand and Other Stories of Welsh Society and Scenery. Ed. Rita Singer. Aberystwyth: Llyfrau Cantre’r Gwaelod, 2017.
• Prichard, T. J. Llewelyn. The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti. 1828. Ed. Rita Singer. Aberystwyth: Llyfrau Cantre’r Gwaelod, 2017.
• Spooner, Louisa Matilda. Gladys of Harlech, or: The Sacrifice. 1858. Ed. Rita Singer. Welsh Women’s Classics. Aberystwyth: Honno Press, 2017.
• Britische Orientbilder: Auf Spurensuche zwischen Oxford und Oxiana. Ed. Rita Singer. Leipzig: Edition Hamouda, 2013.

RESEARCH ARTICLES, CHAPTERS AND INTRODUCTIONS

• ‘”[A] very improbable and imaginative fiction”: Fictionalising the French Invasion of Fishguard.’ Literature & History, 33.2 (14 Nov 2024): 119-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/03061973241295331
• ‘DASS, SHOSHI MUKHI (1868 – 1921), missionary, teacher and nurse.’ Dictionary of Welsh Biography. 11 Nov 2024. https://biography.wales/article/s15-DASS-MUK-1868‘
• ‘LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (fl.1745-1768; d.1769), medical doctor and mineralogist.’ Dictionary of Welsh Biography. 17 Apr 2024. https://biography.wales/article/s14-LIND-WES-1745
• ‘Introduction.’ Modern Languages Open, special collection ‘Minoritised Languages and Travel’, 0(1), pp.24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.472
• ‘Introduction.’ Ports, Past and Present: Stories of the Irish Sea. Eds. Rita Singer, Peter Merriman, Rhys Jones. Aberystwyth: Aberystwyth University, 2023. 4-5. DOI: 10.7486/DRI.qz216k63t
• Connolly, Claire, Rita Singer and James L. Smith. ‘Public Humanities EcoGothic at the Coast in Ireland and Wales.’ Gothic Nature Journal: New Directions on Ecohorror and the EcoGothic. Special Issue: Haunted Shores. 3 (2022): 19-45. https://gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-iii/
• ‘“The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: Inscribing Touristic Disappointment in Victorian Visitors.’ Books.’ Studies in Travel Writing (2022). https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2022.2063102.
• Connolly, Claire, Rita Singer, and James L. Smith. ‘Environmental Dimensions of the RMS Leinster Sinking.’ Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia 32 (Autumn 2021) Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi:10.5282/rcc/9370.
• ‘Von Hay-on-Wye nach Blaenau Ffestiniog: Elmar Schenkels Reisen in Wales, 1974–2010.’ Festschrift. Das Leben und die seltsamen Abenteuer des Elmar Schenkel, aus Soest, Professor. Nicht von ihm selbst verfasst. Eds. Maria Fleischhack, Jürgen Ronthaler, Stefan Welz. Leipzig: Edition Hamouda, 2019. 168-74.
• ‘Through Wales in the Footsteps of William Gilpin: illustrated Travel Accounts by early French Tourists, 1768–1810.’ European Romantic Review 30 (2019): 127-47. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509585.2019.1583563
• ‘Introduction.’ Richards, Thomas. Rob the Red-Hand and Other Stories of Welsh Society and Scenery. Ed. Rita Singer. Aberystwyth: Llyfrau Cantre’r Gwaelod, 2017. vii-xlii.
• ‘Introduction.’ Prichard, T. J. Llewelyn. The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti. 1828. Ed. Rita Singer. Aberystwyth: Llyfrau Cantre’r Gwaelod, 2017. vii-xxxvi.
• ‘Leisure, refuge and solidarity: messages in visitors’ books as microforms of travel writing.’ Studies in Travel Writing 20.4 (9 Mar 2017): 392-408. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645145.2016.1259606
• ‘Introduction.’ Spooner, Louisa Matilda. Gladys of Harlech, or: The Sacrifice. 1858. Ed. Rita Singer. Honno Classics. Aberystwyth: Honno Press, 2017. v-xvii.
• ‘Adapting the Risorgimento: Ideas of Liberal Nationhood in L. M. Spooner’s Country Landlords (1860).’ Women’s Writing (20 Dec. 2016). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09699082.2016.1268342
• ‘Project report: Teithwyr Ewropeaidd i Gymru, 1750-2010 / European Travellers to Wales, 1750-2010.’ Journal of Tourism History 8.1 (11 Feb. 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2016.1140826
• ‘Liberating Britain from Foreign Bondage: A Welsh Revision of the Wars of the Roses in L. M. Spooner’s Gladys of Harlech; or, The Sacrifice (1858).’ Rule Britannia?: Britain and Britishness, 1707-1901. Ed. Christie Margrave. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 143-58.
• ‘Bicultural Geographies: Narrating Anglo-Welsh Identities in the Novels of Allen Raine.’ International Journal of Welsh Writing in English 3 (2015): 102-22. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/uwp/jwwe/2015/00000003/00000001/art00006
• ‘“Vielen Dank im Voraus, meidet die Menschen und bleibt gesund”, oder: Die hohe Kunst der universitären E-Mail-Korrespondenz.’ Kulturkontakte / Cultures in Contact: Essays für Joachim Schwend. Eds. Frauke Hofmeister and Dietmar Böhnke. Leipzig: Edition Hamouda, 2013. 145-53.
• ‘Vorwort.’ Britische Orientbilder: Auf Spurensuche zwischen Oxford und Oxiana. Ed. Rita Singer. Leipzig: Edition Hamouda, 2013.
• ‘Rebellious Children of Wales: Amy Dillwyn and the Sons and Daughters of Rebecca.’ in: ‘Selected Papers from Strange New Today (Exeter, 17 Sep. 2011).’ Journal of Victorian Culture Online 29 Apr. 2013.
  http://jvc.oup.com/2013/04/29/strange-new-today/
• ‘Harry Potter and the Battle for the Soul: The Revival of the Psychomachia in Secular Fiction.’ Heroism in the Harry Potter Series. Eds. Katrin Berndt and Lena Steveker. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 25-38.
• ‘A Welshman on the Water: The Portrayal of In-Betweener Identities in Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s The Maid of Sker (1872).’ Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 44.2/3 (2011): 139-52.

REVIEWS

• ‘North Wales: Intended as a Guide to Future Tourists.’ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru / Welsh History Review 23.1 (June 2024): 211-3. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/uwp/whis/2024/00000032/00000001/art00009
• ‘Vulcana.’ Planet: The Welsh Internationalist 251 (Aug. 2023). https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/planet-online/251/review/rita-singer
• ‘Graig: One Hundred Years in Shipping.’ Morgannwg: The Journal of Glamorgan History 65 (2021).
• ‘From the Welsh Border to the World.’ Planet: The Welsh Internationalist 241 (Feb. 2021). https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/planet-online/241/review/rita-singer
• ‘Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing.’ Planet: The Welsh Internationalist 236 (Winter 2019). https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/planet-online/236/review/rita-singer
• ‘Stories of Solidarity and Wales: England’s First and Final Colony.’ Planet: The Welsh Internationalist 234 (May 2019). https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/planet-online/234/review/rita-singer
• ‘Queer Wales: The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales.’ International Journal of Welsh Writing in English 5 (2018), 1. https://ijwwe.uwp.co.uk/article/id/384/
• ‘Gwalia Patagonia.’ Planet: The Welsh Internationalist 215 (Aug. 2015): 83-5.
• ‘Cartographies of Culture: New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English.’ Studies in Travel Writing 18.2 (2014): 201-2. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645145.2014.896172

POPULAR ARTICLES AND BLOGS

• ‘Hen wlad fy mamau.’ Cara. Summer 2024. 82-4. https://www.gwales.com/bibliographic/?isbn=B626321289
• ‘Mwy na dynion gwyn heterorywiol.’ Hanes Byw 4 (June 2024): 28-9. https://www.gwales.com/bibliographic/?isbn=L913563777&tsid=2
• ‘The Diversity Project of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ The National Library of Wales. 27 Oct. 2023. https://blog.library.wales/the-diversity-project-of-the-dictionary-of-welsh-biography/
• ‘The Last Invasion of Britain Wasn’t in 1066.’ The Conversation. 21 Feb. 2023. https://theconversation.com/the-last-invasion-of-britain-wasnt-in-1066-197235
• ‘How Gothic Was My U-Boat?: The Welsh Press and German Submarine Warfare during the First World War.’ Planet: The Welsh Internationalist 236 (Nov 2019): 69-76. https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/planet-online/236/rita-singer
• ‘Royal Commission Staff Learning British Sign Language.’ CBHC / RCAHMW. Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru / Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. 23 Sep. 2019. https://rcahmw.gov.uk/royal-commission-staff-learning-british-sign-language/
• ‘A Dog Called Lotte: The Happy Ending to a Pup Rescue at Sea.’ U-Boat Project Wales 1914-18: Commemorating the War at Sea. Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru / Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. 6 Sep. 2019. https://uboatproject.wales/2019/09/06/a-dog-called-lotte-the-happy-ending-to-a-pup-rescue-at-sea/
• ‘What now for UK Academia? Twelve Academics on Brexit.’ Women Are Boring. 27 June 2016. Web. https://womenareboring.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/what-now-for-uk-academia-twelve-academics-on-brexit/
• ‘EwrOlwg: Cymru drwy Lygaid Teithwyr Ewropeaidd, 1750-2015 / EuroVisions: Wales through the Eyes of European Visitors, 1750-2015.’ Dehongli Cymru / Interpret Wales 22 (Spring 2016): 14-5. http://etw.bangor.ac.uk/files/DC22-low%20to%20print%20feb%2024.pdf
• ‘Land der tausend Geschichten: Walisische Ortsnamen und ihre Bedeutung.’ Liaisons 7 (Spring 2015): 6-11.

EDUCATIONAL WEB-BASED RESOURCES

• ‘Enwogion o fri Colouring Book 2024.’ Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig/Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Casgliad y Werin Cymru / People’s Collection Wales. 2024. https://www.peoplescollection.wales/collections/2156156
• Ports, Past and Present. Rita Singer, ed. Casgliad y Werin Cymru / People’s Collection Wales. 2023. https://www.peoplescollection.wales/users/108301
• ‘The Cry of the Hungry.’ Ports, Past and Present. 1 Feb. 2023. https://perma.cc/XCE4-4KPW
• ‘Port Voices | Lleisiau Porthladdoedd.’ Oral History. Ports, Past and Present. YouTube. 2022. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSqDy-CF3zB-ozftP9xgiZrKtSvlQU5Y
• ‘Of Cock Fights and Duels | Ymladd Ceiliogod a Gornesta.’ Ports, Past and Present. 22 Apr. 2022. https://perma.cc/6P9X-44NL
• ‘King George IV’s Visit to Holyhead| Ymweliad Brenin IV â Chaergybi.’ Ports, Past and Present. 3 Feb. 2022. https://perma.cc/Q99D-RERJ
• ‘The Hollywood of Pembrokeshire | Hollywood Sir Benfro.’ Ports, Past and Present. 9 Mar. 2022. https://perma.cc/7GBV-QPYJ
• ‘Picturing the Battle of Fishguard | Portreadu Brwydr Abergwaun.’ Ports, Past and Present. 21 Feb. 2022. https://perma.cc/9TPB-AZVE
• ‘The RAAF in Pembroke Dock | Yr RAAF yn Noc Penfro.’ Ports, Past and Present. 11 Feb. 2022. https://perma.cc/Y3EG-3Y76
• ‘Willem van de Poll in Rosslare Harbour.’ Ports, Past and Present. 28 Jan. 2022. https://portspastpresent.eu/items/show/657
• Evershed, Jonathan and Rita Singer, eds. ‘Oral Histories.’ Ports, Past and Present. 2021. https://portspastpresent.eu/tours/show/18
• ‘Of Mermaids and Fairies | Môr-forynion a’r Tylwyth Teg.’ Ports, Past and Present. 6 Aug. 2021. https://perma.cc/U3A5-VGT2
• ‘Curses and Blessings at the Holy Wells of Anglesey | Bendith a Melltith wrth Ffynhonnau Sanctaidd Môn.’ Ports, Past and Present. 26 May 2021. https://perma.cc/F4XJ-HLS2
• ‘Holyhead Celebrates St David’s Day in 1829 | Caergybi’n Dathlu Dydd Gŵyl Dewi ym 1829.’ Ports, Past and Present. 23 Feb. 2021. https://perma.cc/T72L-GU88
• ‘Geoff Charles in Holyhead | Geoff Charles yng Nghaergybi.’ Ports, Past and Present. 14 Oct. 2020. https://perma.cc/U69C-L4YY
• ‘The Haunting of the HMS Asp | Ysbryd yn cerdded HMS Asp.’ Ports, Past and Present. 10 Aug. 2020. https://perma.cc/WQJ9-5W96
• ‘Responses to the Sinking of the Leinster.’ Ports, Past and Present. 2 July 2020. https://perma.cc/5QJL-NQ48
• U-Boat Project Wales 1914-18: Commemorating the War at Sea. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. 2018-19. https://uboatproject.wales/
• Teithwyr Ewropeaidd i Gymru, 1750-2010 // European Travellers to Wales, 1750-2010. Casgliad y Werin Cymru / People’s Collection Wales. 2017-18. https://www.peoplescollection.wales/users/23054
• Journey to the Past: Wales in Historic Travel Writing from France and Germany. Bangor University, Bangor. 2018. http://footsteps.bangor.ac.uk/
• Refugees to Wales. Ed. Owain Dafydd. Hwb: Digital Learning for Wales. Welsh Government, Cardiff. 10 Nov. 2015. http://hwb.wales.gov.uk/Resources/resource/95514aba-1550-4128-b5ad-f770739601c2/en
• EuroVisions: Wales through the Eyes of European Visitors, 1750-2015. European Travellers to Wales, 1750-2010. Bangor University, Bangor. 2015. http://eurovisions.bangor.ac.uk

DOCUMENTARIES

• Ports, Past and Present: Documentary Series. Ports, Past and Present. 2022. Role: Assistant Producer and Background Research. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSqDy-CF3zCb7oDOvhwml6P47pF9YGOA
• At the Water’s Edge: Stories of the Irish Sea. Ports, Past and Present. 2022. Role: Assistant Producer and Background Research. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZj_EnvOIzM

• The Story of the PENSHURST. U-Boat Project 1914-18: Commemorating the War at Sea. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Aberystwyth. 2019. Role: Script and Background Research.
  • English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UTMlWhikhE
  • Welsh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGmC1P01wOg

• The Story of the AGBERI and the U 87. U-Boat Project 1914-18: Commemorating the War at Sea. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Aberystwyth. 2019. Role: Script and Background Research.
  • English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSW8N1tkhwU
  • Welsh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UsTvZtPzRo

• Land of Forges and Fire: Merthyr Tydfil in the 1800s. Journey to the Past: Wales in Historic Travel Writing from France and Germany. Bangor University, Bangor. 2017. Role: Script, German Translation and Background Research.
  • English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEe2x2DqYwk
  • Welsh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GinAhRz8yjU
  • German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4_vWm5BEPc
  • French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GinAhRz8yjU