University of Edinburgh
Dr Bill Bell is Director of the Centre for the History of the Book. He specialises in Nineteenth Century literature and culture and has written extensively on the sociology of the text, the history of the book, and theories of cultural production.
He was for several years a member of the editorial team of the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (vols 19-24) and is general editor of the Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, to be published in 4 volumes by Edinburgh University press, of which he is also editor of volume 3 (1800-1880).
He has been a member of the Council of The Bibliographical Society, a Board member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) and the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). He is on the advisory boards of several publications including the American annual Book History. He is currently completing a study of itinerant readers, entitled Crusoe's Books: Journeys through the Textual Imagination.
Dr Bell supervises postgraduates in aspects of the sociology of the text and its material culture (particularly in the nineteenth century), reading practices and reading theory, and ideas of authorship. He also has interests in the export of Scottish culture, the history of English Studies, and utopian writing.
Professor Ian Campbell, Professor of Scottish and Victorian Literature, teaches in these fields and generally at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is one of the editors of the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Vols. 1-34, 1970-2006; continuing). The Carlyle project is one of the research centres of the Department and will complete, in due course, an edition of over forty volumes (Duke University Press). With K.J. Fielding, he has edited Carlyle’s Reminiscences (Oxford University Press, 1997), and his Thomas Carlyle (Hamish Hamilton, 1974) was revised and republished in 1993 (Edinburgh, Saltire Society). He has also produced Thomas Carlyle (Longman for the British Council, 1978), which was collected and reprinted in Writers and their Work IV (Scribner,1981). Professor Campbell works and publishes on a wide range of associated authors and subjects, drawing on the valuable archives in Edinburgh. He has edited and/or authored Nineteenth Century Scottish Fiction: Critical Essays (Carcanet, 1978); Robert Louis Stevenson: Selected Short Stories (Edinburgh, Ramsay Head, 1980, paperback edn. 1985); and a series of reprints of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s writings: The Speak of the Mearns: With Selected Short Stories and Essays (Edinburgh, Polygon, 1994; new ed. 2001, 2006), Three Go Back: A Novel (Edinburgh, Polygon, 1995), Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights (Edinburgh, Polygon, 1998), Nine Against the Unknown (Edinburgh, Polygon, 1999), Spartacus (Edinburgh, Polygon, 2001), and The Lost Trumpet (Edinburgh, Polygon, 2001), Sunset Song (Edinburgh, Polygon, 2006), and A Scots Quair (Edinburgh, Polygon, 2006). He has also issued new editions of Lockhart’s Adam Blair (Edinburgh, Saltire, 2006), Galt’s Annals of the Parish, The Ayrshire Legatees and The Provost (Edinburgh, Mercat, 1996 republished Edinburgh, Saltire 2006) and Barrie’s A Window in Thrums (Edinburgh, Saltire, 2005). He is general editor of the Carlyle Society Occasional Papers, President of the Carlyle Society and (for 2006-7) of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
His research interests are, and he would be happy to consider supervision in: Victorian literature, particularly fiction and non-fictional prose; Twentieth Century literature of every genre, principally Scottish but with a strong interest in comparative studies linking Scottish literature to continental Europe and North America; Popular literature, film and science fiction; the Bible and literature. For anyone wishing to contact him to discuss possible research projects his email address is: Ian.Campbell@ed.ac.uk
Geoffrey Carnall (Honorary Fellow) has interests in two main areas of research: literature and society in Britain from the mid-eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century; and relations between India and Britain from the time of Warren Hastings until the achievement of independence in 1947. He is writing a biography of Horace Alexander (1889-1989), a friend of Gandhi who did much to make Indian aspirations better understood in Britain. His main publications are Robert Southey and his Age: the Development of a Conservative Mind (1960) and, with John Butt, The Mid- Eighteenth Century, volume 8 of the Oxford History of English Literature (1979). He has edited a volume of essays on the impeachment of Warren Hastings (1989), and edited and completed a history of Quakers in India written by Marjorie Sykes, An Indian Tapestry (1997).
His email address is: G.D.Carnall@ed.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Carpenter works in the fields of medieval and Tudor literature, and drama of that period and beyond. She has focused particularly on the material and performance aspects of theatre and its cultural context. She is the author of a forthcoming book on Masks in Late Medieval Theatre and Society, an editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre, and has published numerous articles on early theatre, performance, staging, political and cultural issues.
Areas of interest for supervision: Medieval and early modern theatre; medieval literature; drama, performance and theatre history.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: Sarah.Carpenter@ed.ac.uk
Aileen Christianson is one of the editors of the Duke-Edinburgh The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Vols. 1-34, Duke University Press, 1970-2006; continuing). She was a co-applicant on the AHRB award to the Carlyle Letters, 2003-6, and is a co-investigator in the AHRC award to the Carlyle Letters, for 2006-2009. She was co-editor of The Carlyles, vol. 2 of Lives of Victorian Literary Figures III (Pickering and Chatto, 2005). She also writes on Jane Welsh Carlyle, for example: ‘Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Private Writing Career’ in Gifford and McMillan, eds., History of Scottish Women’s Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 1996); she has received a Leverhulme award, 2006-7, to begin work on the monograph Jane Welsh Carlyle: Writing Volumes. She is the co-editor of Scottish Women’s Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into Being (Tuckwell Press, 2000) and Contemporary Scottish Women’s Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) and contributed the chapter ‘The Passable Boundaries of Gender and Nation in Scotland’ to Glenda Norquay and Gerry Smyth eds., Across the Margins: Identity and Resistance throughout the British Archipelago (Manchester University Press, 2002). Her work on 20th century women writers includes essays on Willa Muir, Muriel Spark, Candia McWilliam and Liz Lochhead; her monograph Moving in Circles: Willa Muir's Writings was published by Wordpower Books in 2007.
She is interested in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Scottish Women’s prose, fiction and non-fiction, and in post-1979 Scottish cultural history, particularly the women’s movement. She would be interested in considering proposals involving any of these areas. For anyone wishing to contact her to discuss possible research projects her email address is: Aileen.Christianson@ed.ac.uk.
Dr Dermot Cavanagh is the author of Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and co-editor of Subversion and Scurrility: Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present (Ashgate, 2000) and Shakespeare’s Histories and Counter-Histories (Manchester University Press, 2005). He is currently working on a study entitled Shakespeare and the Mourning Play. He would welcome proposals for research in early modern literature and drama especially from those with interests in the following areas: Shakespeare; Marlowe; Reformation and sixteenth-century writing; literature and political ideas; critical theory.
His e-mail address is Dermot.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk.
Dr Raj Chakraborti. Since completing his PhD at Edinburgh University in 2003, Rajorshi Chakraborti has lived and worked as a writer in Edinburgh, Calcutta, and London. His first novel, Or the Day Seizes You, was published in 2006, and was short-listed for the Hutch Crossword Book Award, the best-known prize for English language writing in India. He now teaches Literature and Creative Writing in the department. Rajorshi's second novel, Derangements, should be out in 2008. In the meantime, he has written two more novels, and is presently at work on a fifth book and some stories.
His e-mail address is rchakrab@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Professor Claire Colebrook holds a BA in philosophy from Melbourne University, a B.Litt. in English Literature from Australian National University and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. She has taught at Murdoch University, Monash University and the University of Stirling. She has published on continental philosophy, feminist theory, literary theory and Romanticism. She is the author of New Literary Histories (1997), Ethics and Representation (1999), Gilles Deleuze (2002), Understanding Deleuze (2002), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2002), Gender (2003) and Irony: The New Critical Idiom (2003). Current research interests are the relationship between philosophy and literature, Romanticism and the influence of German Romanticism on literature in English. She is currently writing a book on happiness and narrative theory.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: Claire.Colebrook@ed.ac.uk.
Dr Sarah Dunnigan is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. She is the author of Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI (Palgrave, 2002), and of articles on medieval and Renaissance Scottish literature, Renaissance women's writing, and twentieth-century Scottish women's writing. She is a co-editor of Scottish Literature (2002), Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (2004) and Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Centenary Celebration (2004). An introduction to Scottish Ballads is forthcoming from the Association of Scottish Literary Studies this year. She has contributed to the New Dictionary of National Biography, the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, and to the New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. She is writing a book on the history of the fairy tale in Scotland.
I would welcome research proposals in any of the following areas: Scottish medieval and Renaissance literature; medieval and Renaissance women writers; comparative research in medieval and European literature; traditional literature, including ballads and folktales.
For anyone wishing to contact me, my email address is: S.M.Dunnigan@ed.ac.uk
Dr Penny Fielding works on both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, and has a particular interest in Scottish literature and prose narrative of this period. Her book Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture and Nineteenth Century Scottish Literature was published by Oxford University Press in 1996 and her edition of Scott’s The Monastery (the first modern edition of this novel) by Edinburgh University Press in 2000. Her book North Britain: Scotland, Fiction and Geography will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. She is currently working on a book on fiction and espionage, and is the editor of the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dr Fielding welcomes research proposals in Romanticism (particularly with reference to language theory and Enlightenment philosophy) and nineteenth-century literature in general.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: Penny.Fielding@ed.ac.uk
Professor Peter Garside. Peter Garside was educated at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, and taught English Literature at Cardiff University from 1967 to 2004, where he was a Professor of English Literature. From 1997-2004 he was Director of The Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR) at Cardiff. He became an Executive Editor for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (EEWN) in 1986, and has been a General Editor since 1994
He served as Advisory Editor to the Stirling/South Carolina Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg from 1991, and in 1998 became Associate General Editor. He has edited three volumes apiece for these two scholarly collected editions. He was also a General Editor of the ground-breaking bibliographical survey The English Novel 1770-1829, 2 vols (Oxford University Press, 2000), and Director of the AHRC-funded online database, British Fiction, 1800-1829 (2004).
Main research interests are Romantic Studies, Scottish Literature, the Novel, and Book History. Present work includes a study of the 'Scotch' Novel, 1770-1836. Research proposals in any of the above areas are welcomed.
He is the author of:
Dr Alan Gillis is a poet and critic. Somebody, Somewhere (Gallery Press, 2004) was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2005, and won The Strong Award for best first collection. A second book of poems is due from The Gallery Press in 2007. The author of Irish Poetry of the 1930s (Oxford University Press, 2005), and co-editor of Critical Ireland: New Essays on Literature and Culture (Four Courts Press, 2001), Gillis is currently writing on contemporary Northern Irish poetry, on links between modern Scottish and Irish poetry, and is researching for a book on modern poetics focused on Wallace Stevens.
He would welcome research proposals concerning modern and contemporary poetry, modern Irish literature, and creative writing projects.
For anyone wishing to contact Alan to discuss possible research projects, his email address is alan.gillis@ed.ac.uk.
Keith Hughes holds a BA (Joint Hons) in English & American Literature from the University of Manchester, and a MSc & PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He did postdoctoral research at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Studies. He has published on Thomas Carlyle, and delivered papers on Jean Toomer and J.G. Lockhart. Current research/publication interests are comparative readings of African American and Scottish literature , and Frederick Douglass’s mid-19th century tour of the British Isles. He would welcome research proposals in any area of African American writing, particularly its Transatlantic contexts. He would also be happy to consider proposals relating to any aspect of 19th or 20th century American Literature; or to Robert Louis Stevenson. Dr Hughes' email address is: keith.hughes@ed.ac.uk.
Dr Robert Irvine specialises in and is interested in supervising research on eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century fiction, particularly Walter Scott. He has published journal articles on Scott, as well as a book, Enlightenment and Romance: Gender and Agency in Smollett and Scott (Bern: Peter Lang, 2000), and edited the recent Broadview edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: r.p.irvine@ed.ac.uk.
Professor R.D.S. Jack (Honorary Fellow) is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the English Association. He holds a personal chair in Scottish and Medieval literature. He is the author of The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature; Patterns of Divine Comedy; and The Road to Never Land. These, along with a number of shorter monographs, editions and anthologies, broadly define his research interests as Scottish literature (pre-1707) and Medieval literature in relation to scholastic and postmodernist thought. He would be happy to supervise students in any of the above areas. The following check list suggests the kind of topics which most meet his present interests: Medieval literature and theory, from a British or European focus; The Spiritual Journey as a European mode in the Fourteenth Century; Scottish literature: Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian-Edwardian drama.
The following checklist suggests the kind of topics (general and specific) which most meet his present interests.
Specific:
Barrie topics needing research include his unpublished 'feminist' dramas and his involvement in early film (practically and theoretically).
General:
As Joint-Director of the Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT), he is interested in students who wish to use that facility for comparative literary research.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: R.D.S.Jack@ed.ac.uk
Mr. (Robert) Alan Jamieson. After publishing two novels and a collection of poetry during the 1980s, Alan Jamieson studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh as a mature student, before taking up the William Soutar Fellowship in Perth (1993-96). He co-edited Edinburgh Review from 1993 until 1998, and was Creative Writing Fellow at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, 1998-2001. His research areas are contemporary Scottish Literature and the development of Creative Writing as an academic discipline. His most recent publication is a collaboration with the painter Graeme Todd, 'Mount Hiddenabyss' (Fruitmarket Gallery, 2000).
Dr Aaron Kelly holds a BA (Hons), MA in Irish Writing and PhD from Queen’s University Belfast. He is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature. Aaron is the author of the following monographs: Irvine Welsh (Manchester University Press 2005) and The Thriller and Northern Ireland Since 1969 (Ashgate Press 2005). He is co-editor of Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture (Four Courts Press 2001) and Cities of Belfast: Interventions of Recovery (Four Courts Press 2003). He is currently finishing books entitled James Kelman: Politics and Aesthetics; Contemporary Scottish and Northern Irish Writing: Class, the City and Devolution; Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers and Conspiracy in Contemporary Culture; and Culture and Neo-Imperialism: Postmodernism and Globalization. Aaron is also working on a book on Irish working-class writing and co-editing, with Julie Marney, a collection of essays entitled What Was Postmodernism?. His research interests include contemporary Irish and British culture, Postcolonial and Marxist theory, literatures of decolonization, popular cultural forms, working class writing and theories of the novel. He is happy to supervise in any of these areas, especially Irish-Scottish comparative studies, and can be contacted at: akelly1@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Michelle Keown specialises in Postcolonial literature and theory, particularly that of the Pacific region. She has published widely on Maori and Pacific writing and is the author of Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representing the Body (Routledge 2005) and Pacific Islands Writing: The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2006). She has also edited (with Stuart Murray) a special issue of the Journal of New Zealand Literature (no. 21, 2003) focusing upon diasporic connections between New Zealand and the UK. She is a founding committee member and membership secretary for the New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA), which holds annual conferences and publishes proceedings with Kakapo Books and in the NZSA-affiliated journal British Review of New Zealand Studies (BRONZS).
Dr Keown is happy to consider research proposals in the following areas: Postcolonial literature and theory; indigenous and European literatures of the Pacific region (including Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia); (NZ) Maori literature; New Zealand literature; diaspora culture and theory.
Her email address is: mkeown@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr James Loxley is the author of The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson (2002), Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars (1997) and of a number of articles on Renaissance poetry and critical theory. He is currently working on a book on the concept of performativity from Austin to Butler and Jon McKenzie, and has research interests in early modern and contemporary theories of poetry, in performance theory and performativity, and in the relationship between early modern literary theory and political thought.
He would be particularly interested to hear of research proposals in the following areas: Renaissance or early modern poetry and drama, including Shakespeare and Jonson; literature and political thought; performance theory; contemporary literary theory.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: James.Loxley@ed.ac.uk
Dr Simon Malpas has published The Postmodern (Routledge 2005) and Jean-Francois Lyotard (Routledge, 2003), and has edited the following volumes: The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory (with Paul Wake for Routledge, 2006), The New Aestheticism (with John Joughin for Manchester University Press, 2003), Postmodern Debates (Palgrave, 2001) and William Cowper: the Centenary Letters (Carcanet, 2000). He has also published articles and reviews in areas that include aesthetics, continental philosophy, literary theory, Romanticism, Victorian nonsense and contemporary literature. He is currently working on a monograph entitled The Literary Aesthetic for Manchester University Press that aims to explore Romantic and contemporary accounts of the relationship between literature and philosophical aesthetics.
Dr Malpas is happy to supervise research students in any of these areas, and can be contacted on Simon.Malpas@ed.ac.uk by anyone wishing to discuss potential projects.
Professor Susan Manning, is Grierson Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities: http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/index.html. She works on British and American Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century literature, in particular on Scottish and American literary, religious and philosophical relationships, and she has a special interest in the writing of the Scottish Enlightenment and its influence in Europe and America. She has also written extensively on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. She is the author of The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1990), and Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (2002), and editions of Walter Scott’s Quentin Durward (1992), Washington Irving’s The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1996), Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer (1997) and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (2002). Her editions of Scottish Enlightenment texts include The Works of Henry Mackenzie (1996), Mackenzie’s Life of John Home (1997) and Julia de Roubigné (1999); she is currently completing (with Li Ping Geng) the first modern edition of Mackenzie’s three novels. Susan is a co-editor of the new three-volume Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in 2006. With Andrew Taylor, she is general editor of the Edinburgh Series in Transatlantic Literatures, which is commissioning new work in this expanding field. She is working on a book on Becoming a Character, and another provisionally entitled Lateral Literary History.
Susan Manning is a Board member and past President of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Anglo-American journal Symbiosis, and the Advisory Boards of the Walter Scott and James Hogg editions. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Arts, and serves on the Executive of the Council for College and University English and the Advisory Board of the English Subject Centre. She is deputy Chair of the English Literature 2008 Research Assessment Panel. With Dr N.T. Phillipson of the School of History, she runs a Leverhulme Research Interchange project on "The Science of Man in Scotland" http://www.scienceofman.ed.ac.uk/index.html. She convenes the Carnegie Trust funded STAR (Scotland's Transatlantic Relations) Project, a collaborative initiative between Scottish and North American universities, libraries and museums. For further information please see the STAR website: http://www.star.ac.uk.
Susan convenes the Transatlantic MSc [http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/graduateschool/transatlanticstudies/ and http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgrad/msc/2006-7/booklets/Transatlantic%20Studies%20Programme%20handbook%202006-7.htm], and welcomes postgraduate applications in interdisciplinary topics involving British or American literature of the Enlightenment, Romantic and nineteenth-century periods, and any comparative topics involving Scottish, English and American literatures. To discuss possible research projects, contact at: Susan.Manning@ed.ac.uk.
Professor Laura Marcus took up the post of Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in 2007. She was previously Professor of English at the University of Sussex. Her research interests and teaching interests are predominantly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, with particular expertise in autobiography and biography; narrative and the novel; modernism; feminist theories and women’s writing; Virginia Woolf; early cinema and film theory; psychoanalysis; contemporary fiction. She is author of Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994); Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997, new edition 2004) and The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007). She has edited a number of volumes, including (with Lynda Nead) The Actuality of Walter Benjamin (1993/1998); (with James Donald and Anne Friedberg) Close Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism (1998); Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams: New Interdisciplinary Essays (1999); Mass-Observation as Poetics and Science (2001) and (with Peter Nicholls) The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2005). New research projects included books on representations of the twentieth-century city in literature and film, and British literature 1910-1920.
Laura Marcus is one of the editors of the journal Women: a Cultural
Review. She is also on the editorial and advisory boards for a number
of journals
and editing projects, including Comparative Criticism; The Modernist
Magazines Research Project; Journal of Modern Periodical Studies;
European Network
for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. She is also Chair of the recently
founded Scottish Network of Modernism Studies.
At the University of Edinburgh, Laura Marcus teaches Honours and MSc
courses on contemporary fiction; modernism and the cinematic city;
writers and
the cinema; Virginia Woolf: texts and contexts. She is currently supervising
PhD students in the areas of modernist literature; sexualities and
writing; Virginia Woolf.
She is Director of Research for the English Literature department.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: Laura.Marcus@ed.ac.uk
Dr. Michèle Mendelssohn holds a BA (cum laude) in English Literature and Liberal Arts from Concordia University (Canada), a MPhil (First) in American Literature and a PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University. During her doctoral studies, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. She has also been a DAAD Research Scholar at Heidelberg University (Germany). Michèle has taught at Boston University, Harvard, Cambridge, and Heidelberg.
Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature, Anglo-American literary relations, Canadian literature, gender and sexuality studies, and intersections between visual, material and literary culture. She has published in Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, The Eugene O'Neill Review, and The Oscholars. She has reviewed for The Henry James Review, Victorian Review, and ELT: English Literature in Transition.
Her first book -- Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture -- examines the influence James and Wilde had on each other and on the late nineteenth century's most exciting transatlantic cultural enterprise. The book reveals how the oppositions within Aestheticism profoundly altered British and American culture by responding to anxieties about nationality, sexuality, identity, influence, originality and morality.
Michèle's forthcoming publications include essays and chapters in Small Change: The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture (Ed. Dennis Denisoff, Ashgate); Henry James in Context (Ed. David McWhirter, Cambridge University Press); The Critical Companion to Henry James (Eds. Eric Haralson and Kendall Johnson, Clearmark).
Her email address is mmendels@staffmail.ed.ac.uk.
Dr Kenneth Millard did his D.Phil at Oxford University and taught there for 5 years before moving to Edinburgh in 1993. He has also taught at Newcastle University, De Montfort University, and Arizona State University. Dr Millard has written Edwardian Poetry (O.U.P, 1991), and two books on recent American novelists: Contemporary American Fiction (O.U.P. 2000) and American Adolescence: The Contemporary Coming-of-Age Novel (E.U.P. forthcoming); he has also published articles on American writers in Mississippi Quarterly and Texas Studies in Literature. Dr Millard has supervised PhDs on Vidal, Delillo, Mailer and Auster, and he is currently writing a book on contemporary fiction of the American West.
For anyone wishing to contact him to discuss possible research projects the email address is: K.Millard@ed.ac.uk
Tim Milnes obtained his MA in English and Philosophy from St Andrews University (1992) and his DPhil from St Hugh’s College, Oxford (1997). While still a doctoral student he was a Lecturer in English at Christ Church University College, Canterbury (1995-98). From 1998 to 2001 he was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College, Oxford. He is the author of/ Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose (/Cambridge UP, 2003) and has published journal articles on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Charles Lamb. His current research interests cover these writers, among others, but focuses on the problems of reading Romantic period literature in the context of the relationship between postmodern historicism, literary theory and post-analytic cognitive philosophy.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: tim.milnes@ed.ac.uk.
Colin Nicholson, a professor in eighteenth-century and modern literature, is the author of Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century (1994); and Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity (2002). During the 1990s he edited the British Journal of Canadian Studies. He has published widely in Scottish, Canadian and Postcolonial areas and has edited several collections of essays, including Iain Crichton Smith: New Critical Essays (1992); Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence (1990); and Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity (1994).
“I am particularly interested in supervising graduate students who would like to work on eighteenth-century topics, including the Scottish eighteenth century. I am also looking for graduate students keen to work on modern Scottish poetry, on black British writing, on topics in modern British Isles poetry or in postcolonial (particularly Caribbean) poetry. For anyone who’d like to discuss possible research projects, my email address is: C.Nicholson@ed.ac.uk.”
Faith Pullin specialises in postcolonial writing, writing by women, and Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American literature. She has published extensively in these areas and has a forthcoming book on Literature of the American South. She has recently co-edited a collection of commissioned essays on Gender in Progress, examining gender issues in a multi-disciplinary context. She is also General Editor of the Pluto Press series on Postcolonial Writing. Currently, she is working on a book entitled: From Margin to Centre: New Writing by Chicana, Latina and Native American Women. In 2001, she will be introducing a new honours course, based on original research for this book; it will examine the work of representative Hispanic and Native American writers, among them Gloria Anzaldua, Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Julia Alvarez, Esmeralda Santiago, Linda Hogan adn Leslie Silko. This course will consider the question; what does it mean to be an 'American' in the late twentieth century? Mexican, Caribbean and Native American are among the cultural diasporas that are recuperated in this New World Literature, as is the experience of displacement itself. The work of cultural theorists, like Henri Lefevbre, will be used in a close analysis of texts. Other honours courses taught include an in-depth examination of the Literature of the American South, dealing with the writing of white and black authors and ranging from Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to contemporary novels by Anne Tyler and Bobbie Ann Mason.
With Professor Susan Manning, Faith Pullin is also actively engaged in setting up a new Centre for Transatlantic Studies which will investigate cross-cultural contacts between Scotland and America. It is envisated that a series of international conferences and colloquia will develop out of this, involving several American Institutions and exchanges of staff and students. A major conference in Edinburgh is planned for 2003, with support from the Museum of Scotland which will be mounting a linking exhibition on Scotland and the New World
Faith Pullin supervises students over a very wide area of research (current PhD students are working on topics as diverse as Nationhood in Postcolonial Writing; The Novels of Margaret Drabble; Mapping the Cartographies of Postmodernism; Liberal Democracy in Modern American Writing; The Language African Writers Use;she would welcome applications concerned with Nineteenth and Twentieth Century women’s writing, feminist theory, Postcolonialism, and Twentieth Century American literature. For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: Faith.Pullin@ed.ac.uk.
Dr David Salter’s principal research interests lie in the culture of the later Middle Ages, focusing in particular on romance and the literature of traditional religion. He is the author of Holy and Noble Beasts: Encounters with Animals in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001), a study of the representation of animals in romance and saints’ lives. He is currently writing a cultural history of the Franciscan Order in England, entitled St Francis and Cultural Memory: Catholicism and the English National Imagination, which is due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2007. In addition to the above, David has published essays on subjects as diverse as Shakespeare’s religious background, Anthony Van Dyck, and film and gender studies.
For anyone wishing to contact David to discuss possible research projects, his email address is: David.Salter@ed.ac.uk.
Dr Roger Savage (Honorary Fellow) has published essays on neo-classical mimetic theory (especially as it relates to Swift and Pope), the ‘Dido’ myth, literary and theatrical links in the music of Purcell (e.g. for the Faber Purcell Companion,1995), the work of Auden as a librettist and of Henry Reed as a radio dramatist, etc. For an Oxford University Press collaborative edition of the texts of the Purcell ‘semi-operas’ he has edited the 1692 adaptation by [?] Thomas Betterton of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has also published several pieces on staging matters in the Italian renaissance and early baroque, and on the staging of opera, including the essay on that subject in the Oxford Illustrated History of Opera (1994). He has broadcast frequently for BBC Radio 3, work there including documentaries on Restoration theatre, the survival of Eighteenth Century playhouses in Sweden and the Czech Republic, the operas of Rameau in the context of Enlightenment thought, and the connections/contrasts between Western art-music and the indigenous musics of India and Japan in the 20th century. His research interests have long been performance theory, issues of staging in spoken and sung theatre, the links between drama and music, ‘courtly entertainments’ and the writing of librettos. A current further preoccupation is with literary-musical links in Britain in the late-Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries (Vaughan Williams, D.F. Tovey etc.). He would consider supervising research relating to any of the above.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: Roger.Savage@ed.ac.uk
Dr Lee Spinks has primary teaching and research interests in Post-Colonial and Postmodern literature and theory and also in Contemporary American literature. Dr Spinks is the author of Friedrich Nietzsche (London: Routledge, 2003; rpt 2003). Volumes in preparation include The Complete Critical Guide to James Joyce (London: Routledge, 2008) and Michael Ondaatje (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008). He has published articles on Postmodern literature and theory in journals such as Postmodern Culture and Contemporary Literature and has written on Post-Colonial literature and poetics in journals like The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and The Journal of Australian Studies. He would be particularly interested in supervising doctoral students in the area of either post-colonial or postmodern studies or in the field of the Contemporary American novel.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: Lee.Spinks@ed.ac.uk
Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature and Head of Department. He is the author of The British Novel Since the Thirties (1986); Modernist Fiction (1992; revd. edn, 1998); A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth Century Novel in Britain (1993); and the Oxford English Literary History, vol.12, 1960-2000: The Last of England? (2004), as well as many articles and book chapters on modernist and postmodernist fiction. He edited The Scottish Novel since the Seventies (1992) and Scottish Theatre since the Seventies (1996), both with Gavin Wallace; Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama: An Anthology (2001), with Cairns Craig; and The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006), with Brian McHale. He is general editor of the forthcoming Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain series, and is currently working on a book for OUP on time and narrative.
He is interested in supervising research in most areas of Twentieth Century fiction, modernism especially; in Twentieth Century Theatre, Scottish particularly; and, potentially, in most phases of English writing since 1960.
For anyone wishing to contact him to discuss possible research projects, the email address is: Randall.Stevenson@ed.ac.uk
Dr Olga Taxidou's main teaching and research interests lie in the general field of performance theory, with particular interest in modernism and performance and theories of tragedy. She is the author of The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (1998); Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (2004); Modernism and Performance: Jarry to Brecht (2007); and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998) and Post-War Cinema and Modernism: A Film Reader (2000).
She is interested in supervising research in performance theory, gender and performance, modernism and performance, and adaptation of classical texts.
For anyone wishing to contact me to discuss possible research projects my email address is: Olga.Taxidou@ed.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Taylor specialises in nineteenth-century North American literature and intellectual history, and has an interest in the intersection of historiography and contemporary American fiction. He is the author of Henry James and the Father Question (CUP 2002) and several articles on American writing and culture. An edited collection of essays on John Brown is forthcoming, as well as a new edition of Henry James's The Europeans. He is currently working on a study of the public intellectual and the national imaginary in the Unted States. Dr Taylor is also co-editor (with Susan Manning) of the Edinburgh Series in Transatlantic Literatures, published by Edinburgh University Press.
Dr Taylor welcomes research proposals in any aspect of nineteenth-century American writing and in transatlantic literary relations. His email address is Andrew.Taylor@ed.ac.uk.
Dr Alex Thomson has research interests in Scottish Literature, in literature and philosophy, and in political theory. He is the author of Deconstruction and Democracy: Derrida’s Politics of Friendship (Continuum, 2005) and of Adorno: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2006) as well as a range of articles on literature, philosophy and the visual arts. Recent topics include: Jacques Derrida and ‘deconstruction’, Eduardo Paolozzi, Frank Kuppner, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas. His current research is concerned with the relationship between literature, aesthetics, philosophy and the philosophy of history in the modern period, and is focused on three areas: conceptions of literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the relationship between Idealist philosophy and Anglo-American modernism in the early twentieth century; questions of literary form in relation to contemporary Scottish writing.
Dr Thomson welcomes research proposals in any area of modern Scottish Literature, but particularly in modern and contemporary Scottish fiction, in Scottish modernism, and in the history of ideas in Scotland. He would also welcome proposals relating to his interests in twentieth century French thought, and in the work of the Frankfurt School as well as interdisciplinary projects linking literature to philosophy and / or political theory. He can be contacted to discuss possible topics via email: Alex.Thomson@ed.ac.uk.
Dr Suzanne Trill is the co-editor of Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Writing, 1500-1700 (Edinburgh UP,1996/1998) and ‘Lay by Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen’: Writing Women in England, 1500-1700 (Arnold, 1997) with Kate Chedgzoy and Melanie Osborne, and of Writing and the English Renaissance with William Zunder (Longman, 1996). Her edition of Lady Anne Halkett: Selected Life Writings is forthcoming (Ashgate, 2006). Her publications include articles on early modern English and Scottish women’s writing (c.1550-1700), with a particular emphasis upon Protestant devotional literature and archival resources. While these are her primary fields of research, her work also engages with the theory and history of sexuality.
She welcomes research proposals relating to any aspect of women’s writing, sexuality, or devotional literature, c. 1550-1700. Her email address is: S.Trill@ed.ac.uk
Professor Greg Walker. Greg was previously Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture and Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester. He gained a BA in English and History and a PhD in early-Tudor literature and history from the University of Southampton, was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Southampton and taught at the Universities of Queensland and Buckingham before joining the University of Leicester in 1991. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the English Association, Chair of the Council for College and University English, and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and the Research Assessment Exercise sub-panel for English Language and Literature for 2008. He is co-editor, with Elaine Treharne, of the Oxford Textual Perspectives monograph series (OUP), and with Martin Stannard of Studies in European Cultural Transition (Ashgate), and a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Medieval English Theatre, PE:ER, and Reformation. He is married with two sons, and admits to being an enthusiast for two generally unpopular causes, Nottingham Forest Football Club and Progressive Rock music.
Greg has written widely on late-medieval drama and poetry, Renaissance literature, the history of the stage in the period before the building of the professional playhouses, and the cultural consequences of the Henrician Reformation, and also has interests in the early films of Alexander Korda.
He has supervised students on a range of topics at MA and PhD level, ranging from the dream-visions and romances of the Fourteenth Century to the drama of the late Sixteenth Century, and covering topics as diverse as the Shakespearean films of Sir Laurence Olivier and the representation of animals in late fourteenth century literature. He is very happy to supervise postgraduate work in any or all of the following areas:
Publications include
Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2005; pbk editions, 2007). Alexander Korda, The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) (I.B. Tauris, British Film Series, 2003).
edited: Medieval Drama: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2000).
The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama (Cambridge University Press, 1998; paperback, 2006).
edited: John Skelton (Everyman Poetry Library, 1997),
Persuasive Fictions: Faction, Faith, and Political Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII (Scolar Press, 1996), pp. xv + 203.
Plays of Persuasion: Drama and Politics at the Court of Henry VIII (CUP, 1991).
John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s (CUP, 1988; CUP pbk, 2002).
‘The Textual Archaeology of The Plowman’s Tale’ in Anne Marie D’Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds, The Key of All Good Remembrance: Essays on Medieval Texts in History (Dublin, Four Courts, 2005), pp. 375-401.
‘ Flytyng Against Convention: Protest and Innovation in Lindsay’s Satire of the Thrie Estaitis’, W. Hüsken and P. Happé, eds, Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Power, Gender and Theatricality (Rodopi, 2007), pp. 211-39.
‘ Selling England (and Italy) by the Pound?: Performing Englishness in English and Italian Progressive Rock’, in R. Hertel and M. Pfister, eds, In Medias Res (Rodopi, 2007).‘The Cultural Work of Early Theatre’, in R. Beadle and Alan J. Fletcher, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (2nd edition, CUP, 2007/8).
He is currently editing The Oxford Anthology of Renaissance Literature and co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature, with Elaine Treharne.
His e-mail address is Greg.Walker@ed.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Wild specialises in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century literature and culture. He is also a member of the editorial team of the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle and the Deputy Director of the Centre for the History of the Book. Wild’s forthcoming book, The Rise of the Office Worker in Literary Culture (Palgrave, 2005), examines the relationship between work and print culture between 1880 and 1939. In addition he has published (and forthcoming) articles on George Gissing, Jerome K. Jerome, First World War literature, and the popular literary magazine John O’London’s Weekly. His current research interests involve the development of the concept of ‘middlebrow’ literary culture from the 1890s.
He is happy to consider research applications relating to his areas of interest and can be contacted on jwild@ed.ac.uk.
Dr Karina Williamson (Honorary
Fellow) has research interests in three areas: English literature, especially
poetry, of the long eighteenth century (1660-1830), twentieth-century
Caribbean writing, and British West Indian literature and history of the
colonial period.
She is principal editor of The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart (6
vols., 1980-96), and co-editor with Marcus Walsh of the Penguin Classics
Christopher Smart (1990). She has recently edited the
anonymous novel, Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica [1828] for Macmillan
Caribbean Classics (2005). Other publications include essays on the
impact of Smart on modern American and English poets, eighteenth-century
women poets, science and poetry in the eighteenth century, Augustan verse
epistles and gender cross-dressing, the Jamaican writer Roger Mais, and
Jean Rhys
and
Phyllis Shand Allfrey. She is currently compiling an anthology of representations
of West Indian slavery in prose and verse, 1657-1834.
For anyone wishing to contact her to discuss possible research projects her email address is: Karina.Williamson@ed.ac.uk
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