Dr Scott Lyall organises A Celebration of the Life and Work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Feb 7, 2025
Summary
For I Will Give You The Morning Star: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The great Scottish novelist James Leslie Mitchell, better-known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, died on 7 February 1935. Just thirty-three years old, he had published an astonishing range of books in his cruelly short but hugely influential writing career, including Sunset Song, a novel of truly iconic status regularly voted Scotland’s favourite by the reading public.
This event, chaired by Prof Alison Lumsden, will mark the 90th anniversary of his death. Renowned academics, Gibbon specialists and writers will celebrate his legacy and explore the enduring fascination of his life and work: Dr William K. Malcolm, Gibbon's authorised biographer; Dr Alison Baxter, granddaughter and biographer of Jean Baxter to whom Sunset Song is dedicated; Gibbon experts Dr Scott Lyall and Prof Uwe Zagratzki, plus choice readings by Dr Shane Strachan.
The event is supported by the School of Arts and Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University.
Scott Lyall wins RSE small research grant to work on scholarly edition
Feb 2, 2023
Summary
Dr Scott Lyall, Associate Professor of Modern and Scottish Literature in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, has won a small research grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to work on the first ever scholarly edition of Scottish Scene, co-written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Hugh MacDiarmid.
Dr Scott Lyall awarded RSE Network Grant
Dec 15, 2020
Summary
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 University of Stirling on the two-year project.
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 the 1950s. It will make explicit the cultural, intellectual and political links between the fin-de-si�cle Scottish Revival and the Scottish renaissance movement of the early decades of the twentieth century and so propose a �long� Scottish Revival, thus seeking to overcome barriers to knowledge that can sometimes arise from periodisation and the academic sub-fields of expertise.
The network will promote greater understanding of the Scottish Revival in national terms while also initiating comparative examination of the Scottish Revival and other revivals occurring internationally in the same period. While its primary focus will be on literature, the network will facilitate discussion as to the links between literature and other cultural forms during the Scottish Revival.
The foremost international academics will contribute their expertise to a contemporary reassessment of this important period in Scottish cultural life.
Dr Scott Lyall is a guest speaker on Times Radio
Aug 11, 2020
Summary
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 11 August 1892, C.M. Grieve ('Hugh MacDiarmid') became the foremost poet in the Scottish tradition, helping to found the National Party of Scotland and reviving the Scots language.
Dr Lyall is a leading expert on MacDiarmid's work, having published two books and countless articles on the poet.
In his conversation with Stig Abell, Dr Lyall explained MacDiarmid's importance to the Scots tradition, as well as to international Modernism, and the poet's continuing importance to our understanding of the nation's political culture.
Dr Scott Lyall publishes an article in The Conversation on Nan Shepherd.
Aug 29, 2019
Summary
�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
Scott Lyall makes presentation at Saltire Literary Awards
Nov 24, 2016
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At the Saltire Literary Awards in Edinburgh's Central Hall, Dr Scott Lyall presented the Ross Roy Medal to Dr Craig Lamont of the University of Glasgow for the best PhD in Scottish Literature in 2016.
