POSTGRADUATE REPRESENTATIVES
Chao Dai is a PhD student at Macao Polytechnic University. His research focuses on the translation and reception of Scottish literature in China, particularly how images of Scotland are constructed and reshaped through Chinese translation. His work also draws on digital humanities methods to examine the cross-cultural circulation and reception of Scottish writing.
Gabrielle Fath is a PhD scholar at the University of Limerick (funded by Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland), where she researches the representation of older women in contemporary Scottish and Irish short fiction, in Scottish Gaelic, Irish and English. The project, co-supervised by Dr. Michaela Schrage-Früh, Dr. Philippe Laplace and Dr. Máire Ní Annracháin, focuses on how the narratives write and rewrite tropes and folk motifs surrounding women’s ageing, at the crossroads of age and gender studies. She has published articles on the figure of the cailleach in Iain Crichton Smith/Mac a’ Ghobhainn’s works, as well as on women’s ageing in Muriel Spark’s fiction. On the EC, Gabrielle is also a member of the IASSL social media team.
Nuri Batuhan Lüleci is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University in Prague. He holds an MA in National and Transnational Studies: Literature, Culture, Language (NTS) from the University of Münster. He also completed a semester at the University of St Andrews, a full academic year at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and a visiting doctoral studentship at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. He is researching and writing at the conceptual intersections between and among life-writing, postcolonial studies, and critical theory. He is currently working on his dissertation entitled ‘Transgressive Life Writing and Exilic Criticism,’ focusing on the nexus between theory and lived experience in the life narratives of Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Stuart Hall. His article, ‘The Rhetoric of Violence in Irvine Welsh’s Marabou Stork Nightmares,’ was published in Scottish Literary Review.
ECR REPRESENTATIVES
Giuseppe Capalbo holds a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy). In 2022, he was awarded a fellowship by the Warburg Institute (University of London, UK), and in 2026 he received a Research Trip Bursary from the European Society for the Study of English. He has carried out research on complex embodiments in modern and contemporary Anglophone fiction at the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford, UK) and at the National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh, UK). He has presented at national and international conferences. His research interests include representations of the body, fin-de-siècle literature and culture, gender, queer, and disability studies.
Amy Wilcockson is Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. Prior to this, she was an MHRA Research Fellow at QMUL working on ‘The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley’ (2025-26) and a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘The Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies’ (2023-25). Based on her PhD thesis, Amy’s edition of The Selected Letters of Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) is forthcoming with Liverpool University Press.
