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'Jean' (2025)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (n.d.). 'Jean'. Ayont the Thistle: Reflections on and responses to Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in the centenary of its publication. Tippermuir Books. https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/

This short story in Scots entitled 'Jean' envisages the Drunk Man, the protagonist of Hugh MacDiarmid 1926 poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, in a care home approaching his centenary. He has Alzheimer's but clearly still has a vibrant inner spiri... Read More about 'Jean'.

James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2025, December 6-7). James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling [Paper presentation]. PERCIVAL - an international conference on the literature and art of Percival Everett, London.

This paper considers James within Everett’s famously diverse oeuvre – to date including twenty-four novels, four collections of short fiction, three collections of poetry and a children’s book – a distinctive body of work commonly described as “uncat... Read More about James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling.

All of Them (2025)
Journal Article
Neilan, C. (2025). All of Them. Indelible, 9, 39-41. https://payhip.com/b/749W1

Short creative non-fiction piece published in Indelible #9, the journal of the London Arts-Based Research Centre, 'the UK’s premier arts-based research organization, operating as a not-for-profit and offering a wide range of inspiring projects, confe... Read More about All of Them.

Relationality, Vulnerability, and Inclination: Rethinking Masculinities in Young Adult Literature (2025)
Journal Article
Zabrzewska, A. (2025). Relationality, Vulnerability, and Inclination: Rethinking Masculinities in Young Adult Literature. Children's Literature in Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-025-09638-7

The article proposes a theoretical framework centered on the philosophically informed concepts of relationality, vulnerability, and inclination to advance the study of child and teenage masculinities at the intersection of gender and sexuality. By ch... Read More about Relationality, Vulnerability, and Inclination: Rethinking Masculinities in Young Adult Literature.

A Heart in 12 Parts (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Neilan, C. (2025, September 1). A Heart in 12 Parts. Pinky Thinker Press, 15, 8-14. https://www.mignolo.art/ptp/15

Short creative non-fiction piece 'A Heart in 12 Parts' published in issue #15 of Pinky Thinker Press, a New Jersey-based mixed-discipline arts journal. Awarded Editor's Choice award.

The Stranger and the Snow: Ghosts and Skiing in Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Glamour of the Snow’ (1911) (2025)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (in press). The Stranger and the Snow: Ghosts and Skiing in Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Glamour of the Snow’ (1911). Gothic Studies, 27(3).

Conceiving all the world’s phenomena as ‘natural’, Blackwood constructed haunting entities using innovative unions of mind, spirit, force, and matter, locating them in mimetic storyworlds drawn from his own travels and experiences, including skiing a... Read More about The Stranger and the Snow: Ghosts and Skiing in Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Glamour of the Snow’ (1911).

Beyond Sustainability: The Music Industries Declare Emergency on Planet Earth – or do they? (2025)
Book Chapter
Harkins, P. (2025). Beyond Sustainability: The Music Industries Declare Emergency on Planet Earth – or do they?. In F. Ribac, I. Moindrot, & N. Donin (Eds.), Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene: Nature, Materialities and Ecological Transformation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003294955-25

In June 2021, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research published Super-Low Carbon Live Music. Commissioned by the Bristol group Massive Attack, the report recommended a series of targets to achieve the elimination of carbon emissions including... Read More about Beyond Sustainability: The Music Industries Declare Emergency on Planet Earth – or do they?.

The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
Kulpa, R., & Zabrzewska, A. (2025, August 1). The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show [Performance]. The Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh, UK. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15425101

This Fringe 2025 show will feature Dr Roberto Kulpa & Dr Adrianna Zabrzewska (Edinburgh Napier University), who discuss why people who reject gender equalities turn to homophobic, transphobic, and anti-feminist fearmongers. The show also features Dr... Read More about The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show.

The impact of ‘anti-gender’ politics and queer, feminist resilience in Poland (2025)
Digital Artefact
Zabrzewska, A., & Kulpa, R. (2025, July 28). The impact of ‘anti-gender’ politics and queer, feminist resilience in Poland. The Loop. ECPR's Political Science Blog. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16539107

Adrianna Zabrzewska and Roberto Kulpa show that, despite populism's hostile political climate, limited funding, and tensions within the community, the pursuit of a liveable and joyful life for LGBTIQ+ individuals and cishet women in Poland is an unfo... Read More about The impact of ‘anti-gender’ politics and queer, feminist resilience in Poland.

Graffiti beyond words in times of crisis: “DONT SUICIDE. YOU SHALL OVERCOME.” (2025)
Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2025). Graffiti beyond words in times of crisis: “DONT SUICIDE. YOU SHALL OVERCOME.”. Language and Intercultural Communication, 25(4), 443-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2025.2519910

Set during the COVID-19 pandemic, this narrative explores my journey as a Filipina navigating Edinburgh amid heightened anti-Asian racism. A chance encounter with graffiti transformed how I understood space, identity, and resistance. Through personal... Read More about Graffiti beyond words in times of crisis: “DONT SUICIDE. YOU SHALL OVERCOME.”.

Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and Selling the Fairlight CMI (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2025, July 8-11). Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and Selling the Fairlight CMI [Paper presentation]. International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) International conference, Paris, France.

In his study of the Minimoog, Trevor Pinch writes that ‘it is sellers who tie the world of use to the world of design and manufacture. Sellers are ‘boundary shifters’. They are the true ‘missing masses’ of technology studies’. He was referring to Dav... Read More about Following the Distributors: Syco Systems and Selling the Fairlight CMI.

Recording, Resampling, and Repurposing: The Case of Portishead’s Dummy and the Bristol Sound (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2025, July 7-11). Recording, Resampling, and Repurposing: The Case of Portishead’s Dummy and the Bristol Sound [Paper presentation]. International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) International conference, Paris, France.

The Bristol Sound, which is often referred to as trip-hop, was a musical scene that developed in the late 1980s and 1990s and is strongly associated with the practices of digital sampling. Influenced by the culture of hip-hop, the post-punk scene in... Read More about Recording, Resampling, and Repurposing: The Case of Portishead’s Dummy and the Bristol Sound.

Cartographier les mouvements « anti-genre » à travers l'Europe (2025)
Digital Artefact
Titley, G., Filep, E., & Kulpa, R. (2025, June 16). Cartographier les mouvements « anti-genre » à travers l'Europe. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15672762

Les questions de genre jouent un rôle central dans la structuration de la nouvelle internationale réactionnaire et dans sa (résistible) ascension, en Europe et au-delà. Mais si d’autres chercheur·euses se sont déjà penché·es sur les menaces qui pèsen... Read More about Cartographier les mouvements « anti-genre » à travers l'Europe.

I Said Something: Small Acts, Big Impact in Addressing Systemic Inequality (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2025, May 23). I Said Something: Small Acts, Big Impact in Addressing Systemic Inequality [Conference session]. ENclusion Conference: Connecting EDI Research and Action At and By ENU, Edinburgh Napier University.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is often framed as large-scale institutional initiative, but it can also begin with something deeply personal—a moment of speaking up, an act of resistance in everyday life. This presentation explores how indivi... Read More about I Said Something: Small Acts, Big Impact in Addressing Systemic Inequality.

Wpływ polityki "antygenderowej" na życie codzienne i działalność aktywistyczną w Polsce i Europie (2025)
Digital Artefact
Zabrzewska, A., & Kulpa, R. (2025, May 9). Wpływ polityki "antygenderowej" na życie codzienne i działalność aktywistyczną w Polsce i Europie. Portal organizacji pozarządowych. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15386442

Badania europejskiego projektu RESIST dokumentują efekty systemowej dyskryminacji osób wspierających dążenia feministyczne i LGBTIQ+.
Europejski projekt badawczy RESISTotwiera się w nowej karcie udokumentował wpływ polityki „antygenderowej” (skierow... Read More about Wpływ polityki "antygenderowej" na życie codzienne i działalność aktywistyczną w Polsce i Europie.

'The Work' (2025)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (n.d.). 'The Work'. A Companion to Postwar British and Irish Literature and Culture. Wiley Blackwell.