Modern and Contemporary British/American Writing
Modern and Contemporary British/American Writing is the largest research area in the School. There are ten full-time members of staff who research in this area, and their work covers a range of modern, postmodern and contemporary British and American literary authors. Research is closely engaged with new directions in critical and cultural theory, especially in deconstruction, feminist theory, technology, and trauma theory. A distinctive aspect of our research is its focus on the relationships between modernism and empire, popular culture and technology, trauma and the body, postmodernity and difference, globalisation and diaspora, and anti-colonialiasm and postcolonialism. There are strong links with staff working in Postcolonial Studies.
Research is focused in the following areas:
Staff working in this area have published several new books.
Postgraduates
We have a very successful group of research postgraduate students working on modern, postmodern and contemporary literature and culture, and we have been particularly successful at securing AHRC-funded scholarships in recent years. Expertise in this area shapes the M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Studies and contributes also to the MA in Literary Studies: Writing, Memory, Culture.
Research Council-funded Projects
AHRC-funded Research Grant: 'Devolving Diasporas: Migration and Reception in Central Scotland, 1980 – present'
Recent Conferences and Events.
2007 Feminism and Popular Culture
2006 The First World War and Popular Culture
2005 The Dromocratic Condition: Contemporary Cultures of Acceleration