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Dr Ahmad Eltaweel

Research Fellow
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

A.Eltaweel@napier.ac.uk

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Dr Andrew Frayn FHEA

Lecturer
School of Arts and Creative Industries

A.Frayn@napier.ac.uk

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Prof Anne Schwan

Professor
School of Arts and Creative Industries

A.Schwan@napier.ac.uk

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Dr Arin Keeble

Lecturer
School of Arts and Creative Industries

A.Keeble@napier.ac.uk

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Avril Gray

Associate Professor
School of Arts and Creative Industries

A.Gray@napier.ac.uk

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Dr Calum Neill

Professor
School of Applied Sciences

C.Neill@napier.ac.uk

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Mr David Bishop

Lecturer T&R
School of Arts and Creative Industries

D.Bishop@napier.ac.uk

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Dr Emily Alder FHEA

Lecturer
School of Arts and Creative Industries

Em.Alder@napier.ac.uk

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Dr Katherine Aske

School of Arts and Creative Industries

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Dr Sam Illingworth MPhys PhD PgCert MA PFHEA

Associate Professor

S.Illingworth@napier.ac.uk

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Bogeyman: MacDiarmid, Scotland, and the Critics

Journal Article

Lyall, S. (2022)

Bogeyman: MacDiarmid, Scotland, and the Critics. The Dark Horse, 46(Winter 2022/23), 106-107

The War Books Boom, 1928-1930

Journal Article

Frayn, A., & Houston, F. (2022)

The War Books Boom, 1928-1930. First World War Studies, 13(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2022.2129718

Based on a dataset of unparalleled extent containing nearly 1500 books, this article for the first time offers an analysis of the War Books Boom that combines the qualitative ...

Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland

Presentation / Conference

Lyall, S. (2022, September)

Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland. Presented at 'Crossing Borders', School of Humanities Seminar Series 2022/23, University of Strathclyde

This paper frames the Irish Revival as a meta-symbolical attempt to reinterpret and reimagine the cultural and political narrative of Irish history. It focuses on the manner i...

Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn

Lyall, S. (in press)

Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literature

Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn was first published by Jarrolds in 1934. Widely reviewed at the time, it quickly became one of the most controversial t...

'Criminal Voice', Gender and (Sexual) Violence in Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project

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Schwan, A. (2022, September)

'Criminal Voice', Gender and (Sexual) Violence in Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project. Paper presented at European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany

‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance

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Lyall, S. (2022, August)

‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance. Paper presented at MacDiarmid at 100, Online

The first number of The Scottish Chapbook was published in August 1922 and the journal ran until November/December 1923. The most important of MacDiarmid’s several journal pro...

Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism

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Lyall, S. (2022, June)

Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism. Paper presented at The 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Writing Science Fiction: Top Tips from a Sci-Fi Bestseller

Writing Science Fiction: Top Tips from a Sci-Fi Bestseller. [Blog]

A blog post for Jericho Writers on writing Science Fiction

Dictionary Entry: 'Nan Shepherd'

Lyall, S. (2022)

Dictionary Entry: 'Nan Shepherd'. Edinburgh

Dictionary Entry: 'Lewis Spence'

Lyall, S. (2022)

Dictionary Entry: 'Lewis Spence'. Edinburgh

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Gothic Limits

Funding for presentation of paper at Conference

Funder: British Academy | Value: £200

Anniversary Events for Rabindranath Tagore

To run a series of events to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore.To heighten awareness of plans to set up a Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies at Edinburgh Napier.

Value: £2,250

Nehru Centre funding for ScoTs

To raise the profile of Rabindranath Tagore in Scotland. To establish a basis for the launch of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs).

Value: £28,000

City of Literature

To develop apps related to Stevenson and City of Literature

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

Convict Voices: Women & Prison Writing in the Long 19th Century

Convict Voices: Women & Prison Writing in the Long 19th Century investigates 19th century prison writing and other discursive spaces where convict voices could emerge. As prison populations are reachi...

Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £33,240

National Work of Ghost Fiction in 2nd World War

Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £590

Imprisonment in British Suffragette Writing

Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £500

Carceral City, Cryptic Signs: Refugee and Intern

Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £350

An RLS Website

Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £34,400

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Nineteenth-century girls and authorship: adolescent writing, appropriation, and its representation in literature, c 1860-1900

My PhD research focuses on the lived experience and literary representation...

Dr Lois Burke | Director of Studies: Prof Anne Schwan | Second Supervisor: Dr Sarah Artt

William Hope Hodgson's borderlands: monstrosity, other worlds, and the future at the fin de siecle

Dr Emily Alder | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Sara Wasson

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'MacDiarmid at 100'

The Scottish Revival Network is organising a one-day conference on 31 August 2022 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Scottish poet and cultural provocateur Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in...

Dr Scott Lyall awarded RSE Network Grant

15 December 2020

Dr Scott Lyall (PI) has been awarded a Network Grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to found and facilitate a Scottish Revival Network. He will collaborate with Dr Michael Shaw (CI) of the Univer...

Dr Scott Lyall is a guest speaker on Times Radio

Dr Scott Lyall was an invited guest speaker on Times Radio Breakfast Show, interviewed by Stig Abell, to discuss the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid on the anniversary of his birth. Born in Langholm on...

Dr Scott Lyall publishes an article in The Conversation on Nan Shepherd.

‘The Living Mountain: in an age of ecological crisis, Nan Shepherd’s nature writing is more relevant than ever’. Article in The Conversation, published 29 August 2019

Dr Scott Lyall wins RSE grant to study the work of Scottish writer, Nan Shepherd.

1 February 2019

Dr Scott Lyall has won a grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to study the work of Scottish writer, Nan Shepherd.

ENU Associate Professor co-hosts conference to launch new, ground-breaking book

5 September 2018

Dr Calum Neill will co-host an international conference at Ghent University on the 21st and 22nd of September to launch his new co-edited book, Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phall...

'A Night at Stobs': AHRC-funded Performances about WWI Internment

A series of AHRC-funded performances will take place at venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Hawick in June. Produced by a multi-disciplinary team at Edinburgh Napier, and featuring Music and Acting stud...

Prof. Bashabi Fraser at Edinburgh International Book festival, 2017

Bashabi Fraser and Alan Riach have an event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 23 august, including the launch of their book 'Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish and South Asian Poetry...

Dr Scott Lyall wins a Carnegie Research Incentive Grant.

Dr Scott Lyall wins a Carnegie Research Incentive Grant to study the work of Irish writers such as W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse.

Publishes chapter in collection Mapping Across Academia

Publishes chapter in collection Mapping Across Academia

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Research talk by Dr Adrian Wisnicki: ‘Collaboration Across Disciplines and Cultures with One More Voice’

Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, with online joining option via Teams.

8 February 2023

Research Talk by Dr Arianna Introna, ‘Crip Enchantments: Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Scottish Writing and Culture’

Merchiston Campus E14

12 October 2022

'MacDiarmid at 100'

Research Roundtable on 'Global Atrocities in Literature and Culture' (online)

Online via WebEx

8 December 2021

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Edinburgh Napier University

9 December 2019

Space Enlightenment Festival

Royal Edinburgh Observatory, Edinburgh University and Edinburgh Napier University, various Festival Locations

23 May 2019 - 30 August 2019

“A glory that shines upon our tears”: Literature and the Armistice.

National Library of Scotland

15 November 2018

Lead Organiser 'Crime Fiction(s): Victorian and Neo-Victorian Narratives of Crime and Punishment'

Merchiston Campus

The German Diaspora during World War I: Remembering Internment Camps in Britain and the Commonwealth

The National Archives, Kew.

Word Play: Dandering in a Literary Cityscape

Friday, 23 February, 2018 - 10:00 to 16:30 G.06 50 George Square Central Area

23 February 2018

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