About

Dr Rita Singer is an experienced researcher and project officer with a particular interest in historical fiction, ideas of space and place in fictional and non-fictional writing in Wales, heritage tourism, maritime history and cultural geography.

Since 2013, she has worked for the following projects:

• Ports, Past and Present (since 2019), Aberystwyth University
• U-Boat Project 1914-18: Commemorating the War at Sea (2018-2019), Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
• Journey to the Past: Wales in Historic Travel Writing from France and Germany (2017-2018), Bangor University
• European Travellers to Wales 1750-2010 (2013-2016), Bangor University

Academic Interests

• Welsh writing in English
• Romantic Studies
• Victorian Studies
• Visual Culture
• History
• (Digital) Heritage
• Museums
• Film Studies

Exhibitions

• U-Boat Project 1914-18. Travelling Exhibition. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. 22 venues across Wales. 2017-18.
• EuroVisions. Travelling Exhibition. European Travellers to Wales, 1750-2010. Bangor University, CAWCS, Swansea University. 3 venues across Wales. 2015-16.

Conferences

• Commemorating the Welsh Experience of The Great War at Sea. Conference. MOROL / U-Boat Project 1914–18. Pater Hall, Pembroke Dock. 3-4 November 2018.
• ‘Minority’ Cultures and Travel. Conference. Bangor University, CAWCS, Swansea University. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. 14-16 September 2015.
• Reassessing Anglicisation in Wales 1536-1868. Symposium. Aberystwyth University. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. 18 April 2015.
• The Common Denominator. Conference. Universität Leipzig. Bibliotheca Albertina, Leipzig. 21-22 March 2014.

Education

2021

• BSL Level 1 Certificate, Dysgu Bro Ceredigion, Aberystwyth

2014

• Summer School ‘Culture & Technology’ – The European Summer School in Digital Humanities, 2014, Universität Leipzig

2013

• Module for Teaching in Higher Education ‘Aktivierende Methoden in der Lehre’, Universität Leipzig
• PhD (summa cum laude), Institut für Anglistik, Universität Leipzig, Thesis: ‘Re-inventing the Gwerin: Anglo-Welsh Identities in Fiction and Non-Fiction, 1847-1914’
  Supervisors: Prof Dr Joachim Schwend (Universität Leipzig) and Prof Tony Brown (Bangor University, Wales)
  Funded by: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

2008

• Magistra Artium (GPA: 1.2), Universität Leipzig Master thesis: ‘Harry Potter and the Psychomachia’ (GPA: 1.0)
  1st Major: British studies at Institut für Anglistik
  2nd Major: German as a Foreign Language at the Herder-Institut

2006

• ERASMUS semester at University of Wales, Bangor
  School of English; School of Modern Languages

Languages

German, English, Welsh, BSL (Level 1)