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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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Scholarly Edition of Scottish Scene

RATIONALE Scottish Scene was first published by Jarrolds in 1934. Widely reviewed at the time, it quickly became one of the most controversial texts of the Scottish literary renaissance of the early d...

Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £3,102

Scottish Shores RSE Workshop

The Scottish Shores Workshop forges new connections between Gothic studies and the Environmental and Blue Humanities. It emphasises Scottish coasts and littoral environments, which, like others around...

Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £9,940

Dr David Summers Trust PhD Studentship: 'Slip out of darkness': A Study of Contemporary Queer Scottish Poetry

This PhD project will synthesise Scottish literary studies, Queer theory and the developing socio-cultural contexts of modern Scottish society, to investigate a range of queer Scottish poets.

Funder: ENU Development Trust | Value: £15,195

Forgotten Women of Craiglockhart

Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Vacation Scholarship Rosamund Latto

Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

The Literature House in the Digital Age: New Directions for Literary Heritage

This interdisciplinary project will situate the Edinburgh Literature House within the history of such institutions, to establish a context for an investigation of how the Literature House can now meet...

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £54,999

The Scottish Revival Network

The Scottish Revival Network will initiate conversations and debates on the aims, scope, influences and international connections of the Scottish Revival in literature and culture from the 1880s to th...

Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £19,975

A War Books Boom in Scotland? 1928-1932

It is a critical commonplace that there was a decade’s literary silence following the First World War in writing about the conflict before a ‘War Books Boom’ from 1928–1932. This boom was predicated o...

Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £11,641

World/Water Futures

Blue Humanities is an underdeveloped subfield within the Environmental Humanities. It focuses on the cultural meanings of water, and incorporates multiple disciplinary strands, including ecology, mari...

Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £10,000

Narratives of Scottish Modernism: Christine Orr and Naomi Mitchison

The main objective of this project is to conduct archival research that will lead to new and internationally significant academic publications on the literary work of two modern Scottish female author...

Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £7,465

“get leave to live”: Nan Shepherd and the canon of Scottish and International Modernism

The primary aims of this project are as follows: a) to research in the Nan Shepherd holdings, and archives related to Shepherd’s work, at the University of Aberdeen; b) to consult with several Shepher...

Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £3,547

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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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Publishes new book: Community in Modern Scottish Literature

Publishes new book: Community in Modern Scottish Literature (Leiden | Boston: Brill | Rodopi, 2016), 304pp.

Forgotten 1920s sci-fi novel by Scots author reawakened by students

IT is a little-known Scottish science fiction novel which nearly sank without trace when it was published almost a century ago. Today, it is rated one of the 12 most essential Scottish sci-fi novels o...

Published article 'Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black

Published article 'Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black'. Television & New Media (Sage, 2016).

Linda Dryden along with Lucille Bluefield has secured charity funding for former student Helena Roots to pursue a PhD within CLAW.

23 February 2016

Linda Dryden along with Lucille Bluefield has secured charity funding for former student Helena Roots to pursue a PhD within CLAW.

Linda Dryden and Lucille Bluefield havesecured funding for former student Helena Roots to study for a PhD in CLAW.

23 February 2016

Linda Dryden and Lucille Bluefield have secured funding for former student Helena Roots to study for a PhD in CLAW.

Christine Orr and The Glorious Thing on the BBC

27 November 2014

BBC story on The Glorious Thing, forgotten novel by Christine Orr, published by MSc Publishing.

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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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