Jerry Hunter

Who is Jerry Hunter?

T. Gerald Hunter, more commonly known as Jerry Hunter, is an American graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Aberystwyth and Harvard University. Originally from Cincinnati, he now lives in Wales and has held academic posts at Cardiff and more recently Bangor University, where he is currently a Reader in the School of Welsh. He was a founding member of the pressure group Cymuned and is former editor of the Welsh Academi's literary periodical Taliesin.

His first monograph, Soffestri’r Saeson, a study of the use of prophecy as political propaganda in the Tudor age, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award in 2001. Llwch Cenhedloedd, which writes the history of the American Civil War based on Welsh-language evidence, won the Wales Book of the Year award in 2004. He has also published a book on the prominent Welsh American anti-slavery campaigner, Robert Everett: I Ddeffro Ysbryd y Wlad, again drawing on a wealth of Welsh-language evidence mainly unused by historians.