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Bangor-Harvard Relationship

As part of the the institutional arrangement between the School of Welsh and Harvard University's Department of Celtic Studies, Sam Jones is spending the current semesteter at Bangor.  He talks about himself in the following item.

Image of Sam Jones"Though I am an Australian and I still think of Australia as home, I have been living in America for over eight years. I did my first degree at the University of Sydney where I had the opportunity to start studying Middle Welsh with Professor Helen Fulton, something I greatly enjoyed. I moved to the U.S. with my wife in 1999 so that she could begin a graduate degree there, and she seemed to be having such fun that I decided to pursue my own interests by doing a PhD degree at Harvard University in Boston, looking at medieval Welsh poetry from the standpoint of performance theory.

"I jumped at the chance to spend a term at Bangor University in order to make use of the library and meet with the scholars here and so far I have found the School of Welsh so friendly and welcoming that I am having a great time."