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How to write a novel – four fiction writers on Danielle Steel’s insane working day (2019)
Newspaper / Magazine
Bishop, D. (2019). How to write a novel – four fiction writers on Danielle Steel’s insane working day. https://theconversation.com/how-to-write-a-novel-four-fiction-writers-on-danielle-steels-insane-working-day-117155

How to write a novel – four fiction writers on Danielle Steel’s insane working day - article written Sarah Corbett - Lecturer in Creative Writing, Lancaster University; David Bishop - Programme Leader in Creative Writing, Edinburgh Napier University;... Read More about How to write a novel – four fiction writers on Danielle Steel’s insane working day.

Joseph Conrad: Transnational Identity in the Fictions of Empire (2019)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2019). Joseph Conrad: Transnational Identity in the Fictions of Empire. L'Epoque Conradienne, 41,

Professor Linda Dryden Joseph Conrad was a writer who crossed national boundaries both in his personal life and in his writing, particularly in his early Malay tales and in Heart of Darkness (1901), but also in his fictions set in England and Europe.... Read More about Joseph Conrad: Transnational Identity in the Fictions of Empire.

Representing Women in Prison (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A., & Gray, P. (2019, March). Representing Women in Prison. Paper presented at Scottish Universities-Prisons Network Conference: ‘Empowering, Linking, Making', Edinburgh, Scotland

Atlantic exchanges: The poetics of dispersal and disposal in Scottish and Caribbean seas (2019)
Journal Article
Campbell, A. (2019). Atlantic exchanges: The poetics of dispersal and disposal in Scottish and Caribbean seas. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(2), 195-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2019.1590622

This article offers a series of readings of poets from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean whose works make visible the otherwise invisible and offshore narratives of marine waste that currently circulate within the world’s oceans. Through a comparative... Read More about Atlantic exchanges: The poetics of dispersal and disposal in Scottish and Caribbean seas.

Extractive Poetics: Marine Energies in Scottish Literature (2019)
Journal Article
Campbell, A. (2019). Extractive Poetics: Marine Energies in Scottish Literature. Humanities, 8(1), Article 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010016

Following the recent call to ‘put the ocean’s agitation and historicity back onto our mental maps and into the study of literature’ (Yaeger 2010), this article addresses the histories and cultures of marine energy extraction in modern Scottish litera... Read More about Extractive Poetics: Marine Energies in Scottish Literature.

Ford and the First World War (2018)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2018). Ford and the First World War. In The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford. Routledge

This chapter surveys Ford Madox Ford's writings about war. He was conscious of war writing by the beginning of the twentieth century via his friendship with Stephen Crane; the First World War, however, was the major conflict for Ford. He wrote abou... Read More about Ford and the First World War.

Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels (2018)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2018). Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels. In Global Frankenstein (209-225). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78142-6

Frankenstein is surprisingly well-suited to stories aimed at children and is often adapted for young readerships. This essay explores why, through a focus on graphic narratives. I examine five books: picturebooks Do not build a Frankenstein! by Neil... Read More about Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels.

'A Night at Stobs' (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2018, November). 'A Night at Stobs'. Presented at The Internment Research Centre (IRC) opening, Hawick, Scotland

Presentation on the occasion of the Internment Research Centre (IRC) opening, Hawick, Scotland

History on the Cusp of Myth: J.T.Rogers' Oslo (2018)
Journal Article
Soto-Morettini, D. (2018). History on the Cusp of Myth: J.T.Rogers' Oslo. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 6(2), 315-330. https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2018-0028

J.T. Rogers’ Oslo has had an extraordinary run for new ‘straight’ drama: sell-out performances both in New York and London, and 7 Tony nominations. But what is it? On the face of it, Oslo is a history play – a carefully imagined reconstruction of sec... Read More about History on the Cusp of Myth: J.T.Rogers' Oslo.

An alternative to the peer review workshop for creative writing (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bishop, D. (2018, October). An alternative to the peer review workshop for creative writing. Paper presented at Creative Writing Studies Conference 2018

David Bishop presents an alternative to the workshop model, reprogramming the simulator of creative writing to avoid no-win scenarios. He examines how the Edinburgh Napier University program, a genre fiction-focused creative writing program in Scotla... Read More about An alternative to the peer review workshop for creative writing.

“The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, September). “The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war. Paper presented at 1918-2018: The End of the War & the Reshaping of a Century, University of Wolverhampton

Andrew Frayn’s paper focuses on the post-war moment, examining the novelist, poet and philosopher May Sinclair’s post-war work. Sinclair volunteered for the Munro Ambulance Corps in 1914, and her experience of the war stimulated a sustained burst of... Read More about “The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war.

‘A Night at Stobs’ and the Politics of Commemoration: Between the Local and the Global (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2018, August). ‘A Night at Stobs’ and the Politics of Commemoration: Between the Local and the Global. Paper presented at 81st Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS), Bangor, Wales

Paper presented at 81st Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS), Lead Panel on Anniversary Capital, Bangor, Wales

Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject' (2018)
Book
Vanheule, S., Hook, D., & Neill, C. (Eds.). (2018). Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429459221

The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of comment... Read More about Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'.

Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’ (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2018, July). Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’. Paper presented at 14th Conference of the IGA 'Gothic Hybridities', Manchester Metropolitan University

For most of the long nineteenth century, the apparently hybrid biological workings and the unstable taxonomical status of moulds and fungi puzzled and fascinated scientists. Their ubiquity, plasticity, and position in what Ernst Haeckel termed a ‘bou... Read More about Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’.