Members Directory

Andrews, Corey E. Professor of English, Youngstown State University. USA. Contact: ceandrews@ysu.edu. Research interests: eighteenth-century Scottish poetry, Robert Burns, reception studies, biography, biofiction.

Argüeso San Martin, Paula. Independent Scholar (formerly University of Oviedo, Spain). Contact: paulaarguesosanmartin@gmail.com. Research interests: Devolutionary Scottish Literature, Contemporary Scottish Literature, Masculinities Studies, Gender Studies, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman.

Beattie-Smith, Gillian. Open University. UK. Contact: Gillian.Beattie-Smith@open.ac.uk. Research interests: Women; Travel writing; Scotland; Performativity; Romanticism.

Bell, Eleanor. University of Strathclyde. Scotland. Contact: eleanor.bell@strath.ac.uk. Research interests: C20th Scottish literature; Scottish literary magazines; Scottish sixties; Archie Hind centenary project; Scottish literary archives.

Benn, Lisa. University of Nottingham. UK. Contact: lisa.benn@nottingham.ac.uk. Research interests: Early Modern Scots and English literature; Court literature; Occasional verse; Political discourse; Book history.

Bianchi, Diana. Department of Political Science, University of Perugia. Italy. Contact: diana.bianchi@unipg.it. Research interests: translation; reception studies; popular fiction; identity; gender.

Bianchin, Ruggero. Università degli Studi di Roma Tre. Italy. Contact: ruggerobianchin@gmail.com Research interests: Older Scots poetry in Italian and Romance translations; The Buke of the Howlat; William Dunbar; fifteenth-century Scots literature; representing scribal variants in modern translations; philology; investigating how Old Northumbrian developed into Scots; manuscript studies.

Bicket, Linden. University of Edinburgh. Scotland. Contact: lbicket@ed.ac.uk Research interests: Scottish literature and religion; literary converts; Scottish women’s poetry; the Scottish Literary Renaissance; modernism.

Bokestael, Mathieu. University College Dublin. Ireland. Contact: mathieu.bokestael@ucdconnect.ie | mbokestael@gmail.com. Research interests: contemporary literature; life writing; medical humanities; immunity; biopolitics.

Brown, Rhona. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: rhona.brown@glasgow.ac.uk. Research interests: Eighteenth-century Scottish poetry; Allan Ramsay; Robert Fergusson; textual editing; the early Scottish periodical press.

Burianova, Petra. University of Southampton. UK. Contact: P.Burianova@soton.ac.uk. Research interests: contemporary Scottish fiction; postmodernist fiction; architecture; state-building; phenomenology.

Capalbo, Giuseppe. University of Rome Tor Vergata. Italy. Contact: giuseppecapalbo@live.com. Research interests: Disability Studies; Fin-de-Siécle Scotland; Long Nineteenth Century; Medical Humanities; Scottish Studies.

Carruthers, Gerard. Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature (established chair). University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: gerard.carruthers@glasgow.ac.uk. Research interests: Long eighteenth century; editing; literature and politics 1789-1832; Scottish Studies.

Choudhury, Suchitra. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: Suchitra.choudhury@glasgow.ac.uk. Research interests: India in literature in 18^th and 19^th centuries, global material culture, fashion, paisley shawls, decolonization.

Clark, David Mitchell. Universidade da Coruña, Galicia. Spain. Contact: david.clark@udc.es. Research interests: Scottish and Irish links; Modernism; Crime fiction; Nationalism and literature.

Coleman, (Mary) Geraldine. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: m.coleman.2@gla.ac.uk. Research interests: Edwin Muir, Edwin Muir in/on Glasgow, Edwin Muir and the Scottish Renaissance, Modernism, Autobiographical writing.

Cook, Daniel. University of Dundee. Scotland. Contact: d.p.cook@dundee.ac.uk. Research interests: Scottish literature, eighteenth century and Romantic, Gothic, adaptation, reception.

Danielsson, Karin Molander. Mälardalen University. Sweden. Contact: karin.molander.danielsson@mdu.se , karinmd@me.com. Research interests: Works by Erik Linklater, literary animal studies, literary naturalism, detective fiction.

Davis, Leith. Simon Fraser University. Canada. Contact: leith_davis@sfu.ca. Research interests: Cultural Memory; Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature; Media History; Jacobites.

Demir Kılıç, Ayşen. Osmaniye Korkut Ata University. Turkey. Contact: demir.aysen@hotmail.com / aysendemirkilic@osmaniye.edu.tr. Research interests: Contemporary British Drama, Scottish Drama, David Greig, Post-truth, Gender.

Dosa, Attila. University of Miskolc. Hungary. Contact: attila.dosa@uni-miskoolc.hu. Research interests: contemporary Scottish poetry, Gothic novel, translation and reception, history of English novel, history of English poetry.

Durmaz, Hüseyin Kürşat. Erciyes University / Bitlis Eren University. Turkey. Contact: hkursat85@hotmail.com. Research interests: British Literature, Middle Age Studies, Drama, Mappaemundi, Ecocriticism.

Elliott, Elizabeth. University of Aberdeen. Scotland. Contact: elizabethelliott@abdn.ac.uk. Research interests: medieval, medievalism, history of emotion, history of sexuality, queer theory.

Esterhammer, Angela. FRSC. University of Toronto. Canada. Contact: angela.esterhammer@utoronto.ca. Research interests: Romanticism, John Galt, 19^th-century fiction, performance, comparative literature.

Garber, Zachary. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Israel. Contact: Zachary.garber@mail.huji.ac.il. Research interests: Historical novel; Walter Scott; John Galt; Romanticism; Intellectual History.

Gibson, Corey. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: corey.gibson@glasgow.ac.uk. Research interests: folk culture; Marxism; 20th and 21stC; historical / speculative fiction; working-class writing.

Glass, Rodge. University of Strathclyde. Scotland. Contact: r.glass@strath.ac.uk. Research interests: creative nonfiction, biography, contemporary, Jewish, compassion. Personal site.

Gilbert, Adam. University of Glasgow. Contact: 2983131g@student.gla.ac.uk. Research interests: Eric Linklater, 20^th Century prose fiction, Highlands writing.

Gorman, Rody. Poet / Independent Scholar. Contact: anguth@btinternet.com. Research interests: Poetry, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Translation, Intertonguing/Sweenese.

Grimshaw, Hannah E. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: h.grimshaw.1@research.gla.ac.uk. Research interests: Burns Studies; Ecocriticism; Improvement; Sustainable Heritage; Masculinity and Gender Studies.

Hansen, Moira. Open University. Scotland. Contact: moira.hansen@open.ac.uk. Research interests: medical humanities, Robert Burns, mental health, literature and medicine, literary/social networks.

Hay, Emily. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: e.hay.1@research.gla.ac.uk. Research interests: Mary Queen of Scots, women’s writing, early modern, Reformation, Scots.

He, Kaiyue. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: yuedexiaoxue@163.com. Research interests: modern Scottish literature; contemporary women literature; Chinese literature; postcolonialism; Muriel Spark.

Howieson, John. Independent Scholar. Contact: johnhowieson@outlook.com. Research interests: Gaelic poetry.

Irvine, C. R. F. University of St Andrews. Scotland. Contact: crfi@st-andrews.ac.uk. Research: Late Style or Lateness; Poetics; Biography; British Archipelagic/Four-Nation Influences and Voices; Modern and Contemporary poetry.

Israel, Kali. University of Michigan. USA. Contact: kisrael@umich.edu. Research interests: modern Scottish women, internationalisms, Edinburgh.

Jumsai Na Ayudhya, Patra. Charles University, Prague. Czechia. Contact: patra.jumsai@gmail.com. Research interests: Anglophone Literature, Geocriticism, Queer Studies, Creative Writing, Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

Kane, Kate. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: k.kane.1@research.gla.ac.uk. Research interests: Mary Queen of Scots, Memory Theory, Popular Literary Culture, Women’s Writing and Representation, Children’s Literature.

Kopiasz, Klaudia. Contractual PhD student, Aix-Marseilles University (LERMA – Laboratory of English Studies). France. Contact: klaudia.KOPIASZ@univ-amu.fr. Research interests: identity; memory; Jackie Kay; medical humanities; Alzheimers.

Lambert, Iain B. M. Kyorin University, Tokyo. Japan. Contact: iain@ks.kyorin-u.ac.jp. Research interests: James Kelman/ World Englishes/ Global Issues/ Postcolonial Literature/ Invented Languages.

Leask, Nigel. FBA FRSE FEA. Regius Professor of English Language and Literature. School of Critical Studies / Sgoil an Oilein Sgrùdaich, University of Glasgow / Oilthigh Ghlaschu. Scotland. Contact: nigel.leask@glasgow.ac.uk. Research interests: Scottish Romantic Literature, Burns Studies, Ossian, Gaelic literature and culture, travel writing.

Legrand, Emilie, University of Glasgow. Scotland. Email: 2298512l@student.gla.ac.uk Research Interests: Contemporary Scottish Poetry; Tom Leonard; Urban Writing; Language and Identity; New Media and Poetry.

Liu Aihua, Emma. Macao Polytechnic University. China. Contact: liuaihua402@gmail.com. Research interests: Translation and acceptance studies of Scottish literature; literary translation and criticism; eco-literature studies; translator studies.

Li Li, Daisy. Macao Polytechnic University. China. Contact: hklili333@163.com. Research interests: Translation Studies; Children’s Literature; Scottish Literature; Corpus Studies; Comparative Literature.

Lopes, Carolina. Colégio Pedro II, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. Contact: carol.pslopes@gmail.com. Research interests: Memory studies; history and literature; Scotland; modern and contemporary literature; Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

Lumsden, Alison. Regius Professor of English Literature, University of Aberdeen. Scotland. Contact: a.lumsden@abdn.ac.uk. Research interests: Walter Scott, Scholarly Editing, Scottish Romanticism, Abbotsford, Nineteenth-Century.

Lyall, Scott. Edinburgh Napier University. Scotland. Contact: S.Lyall@napier.ac.uk. Research interests: Scottish literary renaissance, Scottish revivalism, Modernism, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

Lyle, Gina. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: gina.lyle@glasgow.ac.uk. Research interests: Contemporary Fiction, Women’s Writing, Meat and Food, The Body, Class Representation in Fiction.

Mackenzie, Fiona J. Independent researcher. Contact: fiona@fionajmackenzie.scot. Research interests: Scottish Gaelic literatures, archives of John Lorne Campbell and Margaret Fay Shaw of Canna, Hebridean folklore, Gaelic song, Island Studies.

McClure, J. Derrick. University of Aberdeen. Scotland. Contact: derrickmcclure2@gmail.com. Research interests: Scots language, Scottish literature, history of English, literary translation, metrics.

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline. University of Wyoming. USA. Contact: cmf@uwyo.edu. Research interests: Nation, Novel, Nineteenth-century, Science Fiction, Authors’ Houses.

McCue, Kirsteen. Professor of Scottish Literature and Song Culture, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: kirsteen.mccue@glasgow.ac.uk. Research interests: song, lyric, Burns, romanticism, translation.

Macdonald, Graeme. University of Warwick. UK. Contact: g.macdonald@warwick.ac.uk. Research interests: Energy Cultures; Environment and Ecology; Speculative Fiction; Modern and Contemporary.

McKeever, Gerard Lee. University of Edinburgh. Scotland. Contact: gerard.mckeever@ed.ac.uk. Research interests: Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Romanticism, Regionalism, Book History.

MacLeòid, Robbie. Independent Scholar. Contact: robbieandrew@hotmail.co.uk. Research interests: Gaelic, queer theory, feminism, medieval, and saga.

Malcolm, William K. Joint Administrator of The Mitchell Literary Estate. UK. Contact: billknock@AOL.com. Research interests: Authorised biographer of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon; Scottish fiction of the twentieth century; authors of the Modern Scottish Literary Renaissance.

Manderson, David. Independent Scholar. Contact: dmanderson@live.co.uk. Research interests: Scottish literature, Alan Sharp, Burns.

Manfredi, Camille. Professor of Scottish literature, University of Brest. France. Contact: camille.manfredi@univ-brest.fr. Research interests: Scottish literature and visual arts (C20-21); geocriticism; filmpoetry.

Mason, Pat. University of Glasgow. Contact: p.mason.1@research.gla.ac.uk. Research interests: seventeenth century Scottish writers; neglected writers; seeing literature in context of time and place; exploring continuities between time periods; exploring intersections between theology and literature.

Mitchell, Andrew. Poet and Independent Scholar. Contact: Andrew.mitchell4@btinternet.com. Research interests: 20thC Scottish poetry; Romanticism (Burns, Brontës, Byron, Keats, Shelley); Literature and Psychology. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/wordworthywriting

Morace, Robert. Daemen University. Contact: robert.morace87@gmailcom. Research interests: Contemporary fiction and film.

Mulalic, Lejla. University of Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Contact: lejla.mulalic@ff.unsa.ba. Research interests: contemporary Scottish literature, vulnerability, ethics of care, peace education.

Murray, Jonny. University of Edinburgh. Scotland. Contact: jonny.murray@ed.ac.uk. Research interests: Scottish film; Scottish cinema; Scottish television; Screen adaptation of Scottish literature; Scottish espionage fiction.

Norquay, Glenda. Professor Emerita, Scottish Literary Studies, Liverpool John Moores University. Contact: g.norquay@ljmu.ac.uk. Research interests: Scottish women’s writing; Robert Louis Stevenson; 20th century Scottish novel; contemporary fiction; print culture networks.

O’Callaghan Yeoman, Cleo. Research Associate at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Cleo.OCallaghanYeoman@glasgow.ac.uk. Research Interests: Scottish Romanticism, the Novel in Scotland, Improvement, Scottish Women’s Writing, Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy, Library and Reading History. 

Paton, Laura. University of Glasgow. Contact: 2166356p@student.gla.ac.uk. Research interests: memorialisation, Scottish cultural memory, heritage, Adam Smith. 

Popa-Petrar, Petronia. Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Romania. Contact: petronia.petrar@ubbcluj.ro, petronia.petrar@gmail.com. Research interests: twentieth-century and contemporary English, Scottish and Irish fiction.

Petrina, Alessandra. University of Padua. Italy. Contact: alessandra.petrina@unipd.it. Research interests: late medieval, early modern, Scoto-Italian relations, cultural politics, translation.

Pittin-Hedon, Marie-Odile. Professor of British literature, Aix-Marseille University, contact: marie-odile.hedon@univ-amu.fr. Research interests: Contemporary Scottish fiction, the novel, contemporary Scottish Gothic, ecowriting, film-poems, history and literature, politics of literature, translation studies.

Pittock, Murray. MAE FRSE. Bradley Professor, University of Glasgow. Scotland. Chair of Trustees of IASSL and Founding Convenor, 2014-17. Contact: murray.pittock@glasgow.ac.uk. Research interests: Jacobitism, Romanticism, Robert Burns, Allan Ramsay, Scottish Culture. EUP page; Scottish Arts & Humanities Alliance page.

Poncarová, Petra Johana. Charles University, Prague. Contact: petrajohana.poncarova@ff.cuni.cz. Research interests: Scottish Gaelic literature; Scottish nationalism; periodical press; Ossian controversy; Highland Clearances in literature; ghost story.

Ratnapalan, L. M. Associate Professor of History, Underwood International College, Yonsei University. South Korea. Contact: lmratna@yonsei.ac.kr. Research interests: Intellectual history; Cultural history; Robert Louis Stevenson; Religion; Christianity.

Reid, Trish. University of Reading. UK. Contact: trish.reid@reading.ac.uk. Research interests: theatre, performance, politics, identity, feminisms.

Sassi, Carla. University of Verona. Italy. Contact: crlsassi@gmail.com. Research interests: Modern and contemporary Scottish literature; Scotland and Empire; Caribbean-Scottish relations; postcolonial theory; nationalism and literature.

Scaringella, Lucia. PhD student, University of Parma. Italy. Contact: lucia.scaringella@unipr.it. Research interests: Ecocriticism, Eighteenth-century Scotland, Contemporary Scottish Literature, Blue Humanities.

Scott, Patrick. Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), University of South Carolina. USA. Contact: scottp@mailbox.sc.edu. Research interests: 18t^th/19^th century Scottish poetry; book history; Robert Burns; Robert Louis Stevenson; George Douglas Brown.

Śledzińska, Paula. Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Scotland. Contact: p.sledzinska@rgu.ac.uk. Research interests: literature, theatre, nation, narrative, identity, music, independence.

Somacarrera Íñigo, Pilar. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Spain. Contact: pilar.somacarrera@uam.es. Research interests: Contemporary Scottish Literature; Scottish Literature and Religion; Scottish Canadian Diaspora; Postcolonial Approaches to Scottish Literature; Scotland and the British Empire.

Stapleton, Anne McKee. University of Iowa. USA. Contact: anne-stapleton@uiowa.edu. Research interests: nineteenth-century Scottish literature and culture, Victorian women’s writing, the periodical press, and the medical humanities.

Steenson, Allison L. University of Edinburgh. Scotland. Contact: allison.steenson@gmail.com. Research interests: seventeenth century, Jacobean literature, Scottish manuscripts, sonnets, William Fowler.

Stroh, Silke. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Germany. Contact: silke.stroh@uni-oldenburg.de. Research interests: Anglophone & Gaelic literature, national & ethnic identities, diaspora, (post)colonialism, cultural memory.

Terrell, Katherine H. Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Humanities, Hamilton College, Department of Literature. Contact: kterrell@hamilton.edu. Research interests: Medieval and Early Modern Scottish poetry and historiography; Anglo-Scottish relations. 

Toda, Fernando. Professor (retired), University of Salamanca. Spain. Contact: ftoda@usal.es. Research interests: History of Scots and English, Translation, Walter Scott, John Barbour’s Bruce, Hary’s Wallace.

Watson, John. Scottish Literature, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: jsw19692@icloud.com. Research interests: literature; environment; Scotland; eco-aesthetics; heritage.

Wilcockson, Amy. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: amy.wilcockson@glasgow.ac.uk. Research interests: correspondence, Romanticism, eighteenth-century, textual editing, reception study.

Young, Ronnie. University of Glasgow. Scotland. Contact: Ronnie.Young@glasgow.ac.uk. Research interests: Robert Burns; the Scottish Enlightenment; Eighteenth-century literature; the history of Scottish Literature; teaching Scottish Literature.

Ziegler, Georgianna. Thalheimer Assoc. Librarian & Head of Reference Emerita, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. USA. Contact: gziegler1533@gmail.com. Research interests: Esther Inglis, Scottish writer/calligrapher; early modern women as writers, book owners, and artists in England and France; material culture/art.