Dr Scott Lyall
| Biography | Scott Lyall is Associate Professor of Modern and Scottish Literature. After completing his PhD at the University of St Andrews, he was postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Irish–Scottish Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He joined the English group at Edinburgh Napier University in 2009. He is currently the university’s representative on the executive committee of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, as well as vice-convenor of the academic committee of Edinburgh Napier’s Doctoral College and convenor of the Doctoral College examination board. Dr Lyall is a literary and cultural historian whose main research areas are modernism and literary revivals. Much of his work concerns the interwar renaissance in Scottish literature, on which he has published extensively and been interviewed on TV and radio. He is the author of Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place, and editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid, The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and Community in Modern Scottish Literature. A co-edited volume, The Scottish Literary and Cultural Revival, 1880s–1950s, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press. Co-editor of Scottish Literary Review, Dr Lyall serves on the publications committee of the Association for Scottish Literature and on the executive committee of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures. Dr Lyall has supervised several PhD projects and welcomes applications and enquiries from prospective research students, especially in his primary areas of research expertise: modern Scottish literature, small-nation modernism, and movements of cultural revival. |
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| Research Interests | Scottish literature; Scottish literary and cultural revival; Irish Revival literature; Modernism; small-nation cultures; literature and religion. Dr Lyall supervises several PhD candidates and welcomes applications from prospective research students in any of his areas of expertise, in particular modern Scottish literature, small-nation Modernism, and movements of cultural revival. |
| Teaching and Learning | Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Dr Lyall leads modules in Modern Scottish Fiction, poetry from the Romantics to the present, The Modern Novel, and twentieth-century American writing. |
| Scopus Author ID | 52964062400 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Modernism; Scottish Literature; Irish Literature |