Prof Linda Dryden
| Biography | Linda Dryden is Professor of English Literature in the School of Arts & Creative Industries. She started her academic career at Edinburgh Napier University in 1998 having received her PhD, entitled ‘Romance and Anti-Romance in Conrad’s Malay Fiction’, from Loughborough University in 1996. She has published three monographs: Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance (1999), The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles: Stevenson, Wilde and Wells (2003), and Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells: The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene (2015), all published with Palgrave. Linda created and manages the Robert Louis Stevenson website (www.robert-louis-stevenson.org), and is co-Editor of the Journal of Stevenson Studies. She has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters based on her interests in Conrad and the literary concerns of the fin-de-siècle. Linda is the Director of Research for the School of Arts & Creative Industries and also the Director of the University’s Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW). She was the Editor for the Wordsworth Editions of the works of H. G. Wells and is editing The Lost World for the new Edinburgh Editions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. |
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| Research Interests | Linda Dryden works largely in the field of Conrad studies, but she also publishes on Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells and the literature of the fin-de-siècle. She has broader interests too in the Gothic and science fiction. |
| Teaching and Learning | Linda Dryden established English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University in 2007. She was Head of English from that time until 2015, and taught on a number of modules. She now teaches two modules directly related to her research: The Literature of Empire: Texts and Contexts The Gothic Tradition In addition to this she has a number of PhD students working broadly in her area of expertise. |