Mererid Puw Davies is a senior lecturer in German language, translation, modern literature, culture, thought, theory and film at University College London. She is especially interested in gender issues and women as writers and producers of culture, having worked extensively on violence and representation, political writing and the complex relationships between art, literature, theory and history during and after twentieth century violence and atrocities.
Engineered flooding displaces communities, eradicating the landmarks of family histories. When little remains, narratives about who controls water provide telling pointers – feature films raise complex questions about industrialization, linguistic minorities, and matriarchy versus youthful masculinity.
Finding time and space for literature and reflection: Mererid Puw Davies’s poetry review advances the merits of literary fragmentation that cuts chronology and slots into layered lives.
