Jane Aaron (educator)

Jane Rhiannon Aaron
Born	(1951-09-26) September 26, 1951 Aberystwyth, Wales
Occupation(s)	Academic, literary scholar, author
Years active	1990s–present
Known for	Scholarship on Welsh literature and Welsh women writers

Jane Rhiannon Aaron FEA FLSW (born 26 September 1951) is a distinguished Welsh academic, literary scholar, and author. She held the position of Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan until her retirement in September 2011, after which she joined the Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations at the University of South Wales as an associate member. Aaron is noted for her scholarly work and publications focusing on Welsh literature and the writings of Welsh women. In 2011, she was honored with election as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Biography and research

Born in Aberystwyth to philosopher Richard Ithamar Aaron and Annie Rhiannon Morgan, Aaron completed her undergraduate studies in English at the University of Wales, Swansea between 1970 and 1973, before obtaining a PhD from Somerville College, Oxford in 1980.

Her academic career includes her appointment as Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1993. She later served as Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan from 1999 until she retired in 2011.

From the early 1990s onward, Aaron has contributed essays, authored books, and edited collections for Honno Press, with a particular emphasis on literature by Welsh women. Among her editorial projects is the 1999 anthology A View Across the Valley: Short Stories from Women in Wales 1850–1950 published by Honno.

Her 1998 publication Pur Fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llen Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg, which explores women's roles in nineteenth-century Welsh literature, was awarded the Ellis Griffith Memorial Prize in 1999. Additionally, she wrote Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity (2007), which received the Roland Mathias Prize in 2009.