Professor Ann Parry Owen

Professor Parry Owen began her career at CAWCS as a Research Fellow on the ‘Poets of the Princes’ project (1985–93), working specifically on the poetry of Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr (12th cent.). In 1993 she was appointed leader of the ‘Poets of the Nobility’ project, which produced 44 volumes over twenty years.

In 2007 she won an AHRC grant of £900K to lead a team of researchers to create a new and digital edition of the 15th-century poet, Guto’r Glyn. The main output of the project was an innovative bilingual website: Guto’rGlyn.net.

She has been a Senior Editor with the University of Wales Dictionary since 2017, and is interested in the early history of words, and specifically the poets’ vocabulary. She has a particular interest in historical lexicography.

She is Chief Editor of Studia Celtica and a member of the Editorial Board of the MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature. She is also a member of the Welsh Language Commissioner’s Place Names Standardization Panel.