CONVENER
Robert Irvine (University of Edinburgh)
SECRETARY
Petra Johana Poncarová is based at Charles University in Prague and has been working mostly on modern writing in Scottish Gaelic. In 2023-25, she conducted a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Glasgow on Ruaraidh Erskine’s Scottish magazines. With the ASL, she published a Scotnote on Thomson’s Gaelic poetry in 2020, and her monograph Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2024. She edited a collection of Thomson’s Gaelic prose, An Staran (Acair, 2025), which won the Donald Meek Award for the Best Non-fiction Book. She is one of the co-directors of Ionad Eòghainn MhicLachlainn | National Centre for Gaelic Translation and translates directly from Gaelic into Czech, including the novel Deireadh an Fhoghair by Tormod Caimbeul. She was the manager of the 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures (Prague, 2022).
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman is Research Associate at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies, where she co-leads the project The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. In 2025, she was awarded her AHRC-funded PhD from the University of Stirling (with co-supervision from Glasgow and Edinburgh) for a thesis that examined the association between novel reading and self-improvement in the female-authored Scottish Romantic novel. Her research is on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish and British literature, with specialisms in women’s writing, the history of the novel, the history of reading, theories of ‘improvement’, digital humanities, and canonisation. In 2024, she co-edited a special issue of Library and Information History with colleagues from the AHRC-funded project Books and Borrowing 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers. Other recent publications include an essay on the intersection between Scottish Enlightenment philosophy and the works of Susan Ferrier (Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 2025) and a chapter on nineteenth-century female borrowing patterns at Chambers’ Circulating Library in Edinburgh (Feminist Librarianship, 2026).
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Cristina Riaño Alonso teaches in the Department of English at the University of Oviedo (Spain). She was awarded a “Severo Ochoa” Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and earned her PhD from the University of Oviedo in 2023, with a thesis titled Narratives of Cosmopolitanism and Strange(r)ness in the Work of Contemporary African Scottish Writers. Her research focuses on contemporary Scottish literature, analysed from the framework of cultural, postcolonial, decolonial and gender studies. She is the author of Scotland so far awa awa: Pasados y legados coloniales de la nación (Edicions UIB, 2024) and has published articles and book chapters on the work of Leila Aboulela and Tendai Huchu. She has also translated into Spanish the work of Bashabi Fraser and Tendai Huchu.
Corey Gibson is Senior Lecturer in Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow. He works on folk culture, Marxist thought, working-class literature, feminist writing, the occult, balladry, psychoanalytic thought, and the national curriculum. His book, The Voice of the People: Hamish Henderson and Scottish Cultural Politics (EUP, 2015), was shortlisted for the Saltire Research Book of the Year, and he is the editor of Hamish Henderson’s Collected Poems (Polygon, 2019).
Daisy Li Li (Macao Polytechnic University) holds a PhD in Translation Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is Professor of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Languages and Translation, Macao Polytechnic University. Her research interests include children’s literature, Translation Studies, Scottish Literature and Digital Humanities. She has published over 50 refereed journal articles in Chinese, English and Portuguese, and her monograph Production and Reception: Translated Children’s Literature in China 1898-1949 is the first book to conduct a systemic study on the translation of children’s literature in China. She is a translator of many books from English, Chinese and Portuguese languages, such as Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Application, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children’s Novels, The Last Battle, The Poetry of Edwin Morgan, and Scottish Ballads. She co-edited and contributed to Scotland and China: Literary Encounters (Brill, 2025). She was the recipient of 2026 Tannahill Fund, 2025 Glasgow University Library Fellow and 2023 Edwin Morgan Translation Scholarship.
Scott Lyall is Associate Professor of Modern and Scottish Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. His main research interests are in the areas of twentieth-century literature and Modernism, especially in Scotland, and much of his work concerns the interwar revival in Scottish literature known as the Scottish literary renaissance, on which he has published widely and been interviewed on TV and radio. He is the author of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry and Politics of Place (published by Edinburgh University Press), co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid, and editor of The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Community in Modern Scottish Literature. Dr Lyall was project leader of the Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded The Scottish Revival Network (2021-23), and is currently co-editor of Scottish Literary Review. He is working currently on several book projects: with Michael Shaw (University of Stirling), he is co-editor of the forthcoming The Scottish Literary and Cultural Revival, 1880s–1950s, which is contracted by Edinburgh University Press; also contracted by EUP, he is co-editor with Kerri Andrews (University College Cork) of a forthcoming volume of essays, Nan Shepherd: New Critical Essays; and, with Juliet Shields (Southern Methodist University, Dallas), he is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Novel, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. He is also working on the first scholarly edition of Hugh MacDiarmid and Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scottish Scene, which will be published as an annual volume by Association for Scottish Literature.
Hongling Lyu is Professor of English Literature and Head of the Scottish Studies Center at Nanjing Normal University. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh, Harvard University, the University of Glasgow, and the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of the monograph Contemporary Scottish Fiction, and has completed two state research projects on Scottish literature. Currently, she is leading a state-funded study on nineteenth-century Scottish fiction. Her research on authors such as Henry Mackenzie, John Moore, Alasdair Gray, and Irvine Welsh has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Foreign Literature Studies and Contemporary Foreign Literature. In collaboration with ASLS, she edited and published five translated volumes of the Scotnotes series in Chinese.
Paul Malgrati (University of Highlands and Islands) was born in France and moved to Scotland in 2013, earning his award-winning PhD in Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews in 2020. From 2020 to 2022 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies where he published an interactive world map of Burns Suppers. In 2023, he published his first monograph, Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics. The Bard of Contention (1914-2014) with Edinburgh University Press. This was Paul’s second book, following the publication of his debut collection, Poèmes Écossais (Blue Diode Press, 2022): the first book of Scots poetry by a non-native Anglophone, which was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Prize in 2020.
Steve Newman is Associate Professor of English at Temple University, where he specializes in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century and Scottish Literature. He is the author of Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon (Penn), articles on Robert Burns, Allan Ramsay, songs in Shakespeare, personal statements for medical school, and a forthcoming essay in ELH on Adam Smith and questions of value. He is the textual editor of The Gentle Shepherd (2022), the first volume of The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay by Edinburgh University Press, and is the director of a DH project on The Beggar’s Opera. He is currently working on Time for the Humanities: Learning from the Competing Narratives of Value in the Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish Romanticism. From 2017-21, he served as the President of The Temple Association of University Professionals (AFT #4531), the labor union representing full-time and part-time faculty, librarians, and academic professionals at Temple.
Katarzyna Pisarska began her academic career in Poland, at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. In 2015, she moved to Portugal, where she worked at the University of Coimbra and is currently at the Department of English and North-American Studies of the University of Minho in Braga. Her main research interests include Scottish fiction, utopia, the Gothic, and myth in literature and culture. She is the author of two books: Mediating the World in the Novels of Iain Banks: The Paradigms of Fiction (2013) and Reversed Food Chains: Humanity, Monstrosity and an Evolutionary Utopia in Colin Wilson’s Spider World Novels (2019). She has published on British and American literature and cinema, in journals like Utopian Studies, Gothic Studies, Science Fiction Studies and BIBLOS. She has also taken part in several research projects.
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