Universities Committee for Scottish Literature

Earlier this month Scottish Lit PhD students held a fantastic PG Symposium on 'New Directions' for the field @StirUni - many congrats to the organisers and speakers! More pics at the link. UCSL is now recruiting new PG reps, so please do get in touch... ucsl-scotland.com/2025/02/13/202…

DEADLINE EXTENSION: 14 March Still getting fantastic abstracts coming in, so we're staying open for submissions a bit longer! Send in your abstracts and join us for what's shaping up to be a fascinating and diverse day of research presentations and discussion! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚🦌🦐🦛🐁🦒🦔

Happy birthday James Kelman! Born on 9th of June 1946, Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer & playwright. In his early twenties he began writing stories that were true to his own life & social-cultural experience. Author portraits for Lean Tales with @AOwensArchive

It was great to present two papers this week at the @UofGCSCS and @studyscotlit PG symposia! Lots of fruitful and forward-looking conversations around the current state of Scottish literature research. Looking forward to seeing these papers published in the near future ✨

Huge thanks to @DaniGaravelli1 for her brilliant piece in @LRB, this was Alasdair’s favourite literary magazine to read so feels very special for the archive to be featured in it, link in bio to read the piece in full👆🏽

It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at @boydellbrewer for bringing this into the world!

Sharing the first of two comparative studies of Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan’s work from 1967-84, supported by @EdMorganTrust created by @_domenicodr for #lgbtplushistorymonth Sonnets from Scotland is considered the most pivotal poetry collection of the 1980s in Scotland and

For the latest on @project_ERSKINE do join us for this online talk with @poncarova, 24 February 12-1pm. DM for link!

📢Call for Papers! We are delighted to announce that the Centre's Postgraduate Conference will take place on 30 April 2025 (more details to follow). Deadline for submissions: 7 March 2025. Scan the QR code or click the link here for submission details: scotlit-iassl.org/wp-content/upl…

Come chat Scot Lit with @talklessler, me, and other PGRs in Stirling this May! It's promising to be an exciting afternoon of discussion and building connections. Looking forward to receiving your proposals! 🦔🦒🦛🦕🦐🦌🦎🐁

Pleased to announce our 2025 PG Symposium, to be held at @StirUni on 2 May - CFP below! ucsl-scotland.com/2025/02/13/202…

DATE CHANGE 👆🏽FREE ONLINE WEBINAR ⬇️⬆️ 18.03.25 17:00-19:00 (GMT) ‘Colonialism in the work of Alasdair Gray: Beyond ‘Poor Things’ This free webinar will look at Gray’s anticolonial thinking historically within his work and how it changed over course of his creative life

The upcoming 'Jacobite Nations' workshop will feature a Public Lecture and Book Launch with Professor Leith Davis of @ScottishSfu. We're hosting this event in collaboration with University Collections and the Friends of Aberdeen Library: abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-eve…

PLEASE SHARE👉🏽We are delighted to partner with @KelvingroveArt for GRAY DAY 2025 on 2 x FREE TALKS - 25.02.25, 1-2pm Talk with our @sgsah funded CDA student @laurenforde_ - 28.02.25 12pm Join Glasgow Life Museums’ Conservator Hazel Neil and Producer|Curator Katie Bruce

Congratulations to Dr @PadraigMacaoidh from @staenglish, who has been announced as the new Makar, the national poet for Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Read more 👇 ow.ly/UIcA50UjIWP #EverToExcel

Our English & Creative Writing MLitt students have been working on some great research placements over the past few years. You can find out about some of them here: strath.ac.uk/humanities/pos… @StrathHum @StrathHaSS @Strath_English @StrathclydeCW @UniStrathclyde

Join @UoE_EFI along with Josie Giles and musician Malin Lewis on 29 November for this free event either online or in person. 📅: Friday 29 November ⏲️: 6-7:30pm efi.ed.ac.uk/event/unco-lgb…

University English, along with the English Association and Institute of English Studies, has written a letter in protest at the proposed closure of English Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University, and the redundancy of our excellent colleagues: universityenglish.ac.uk/english-litera…

That’s a wrap on the SGSAH 2024 Welcome Event! Thank you all so much for coming and thanks so much to our venue @RoyalSocEd 🎉