The Scottish Universities'
International Summer School

The Summer School Lecture Programme

The lecture programme for 2012 will be organised in spring and early summer. Meanwhile, please find below the lecture programme for 2011.

Morning lecture at SUISS 2006

Lecture Programme 2011

JULY

Week One (Modernism)

Tuesday 12

Introductory Lecture
1916 and the Language of Modernism

Professor Randall Stevenson
Dean of SUISS
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Wednesday 13

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse:
Form and Character

Dr Jim Stewart
Department of English
University of Dundee

Thursday 14

City of Words: the Palaver of Dubliners

Dr John Coyle
Department of English Literature
University of Glasgow

Friday 15

W.B. Yeats' Purgatory and Selected Poetry

Professor Edward Larrissy
Chair of Poetry
Queen's University of Belfast

Week Two (Modernism)

Monday 18

T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Professor Lawrence Rainey
Department of English and Related Literature
University of York

Tuesday 19

Liminal Women: Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight

Professor Angela Smith
Emeritus Professor, Department of English
University of Stirling

Wednesday 20

Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

Dr Catherine Clay
Department of English
Nottingham Trent University

Thursday 21

The I/Eye of the Camera: Documentary and the Cinematic Gaze in Goodbye to Berlin

Dr Keith B. Williams
Department of English
University of Dundee

Friday 22

'Will this never finish?': Beckett and Modernism

Dr Adrienne Janus
English & Film Studies
University of Aberdeen

Week Three (Scottish Literature)

Tuesday 26

Scottish Literature since 1900: an Introduction

Dr Alex Thomson
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Wednesday 27

Hugh MacDiarmid and 20th Century Scottish Poetry

Professor Alan Riach
Professor of Scottish Literature
University of Glasgow
note his publication in conjunction with ASLS

Thursday 28

Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the End of an Era

Professor emeritus Ian Campbell
Professor of Scottish and Victorian Literature
University of Edinburgh

Friday 29

Texts and Contexts in the City: the Poetry of Edwin Morgan and Tom Leonard

Professor emeritus Rory Watson
English Studies
University of Stirling

AUGUST

Week Four (Scottish Literature)

Monday 1

The Art of Living - and Dying: Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Driver's Seat

Dr David Goldie
English Studies
University of Strathclyde

Tuesday 2

John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil and Gregory Burke's Black Watch

Dr Robert Irvine
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Wednesday 3

Dissecting the Corpus: Alasdair Gray's Poor Things

Dr Emma Lister
Department of English Literature
University of Glasgow

Thursday 4

'My country was woman': Liz Lochhead's Mary Queen of Scots and Selected Poetry

Dr Margery Palmer McCulloch
Department of Scottish Literature
University of Glasgow

Friday 5

A.L. Kennedy's What Becomes and James Kelman's Greyhound for Breakfast

Dr Carole Jones
Lecturer in English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Week 5 (Contemporary Literature)

Tuesday 9

Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick and Anglo-American Culture from the 1940s to the 1970s

Peter Krämer
Senior Lecturer, School of Film & Television Studies
University of East Anglia

Wednesday 10

Re(a)d Alert: Feminism, Socialism and Fairy Tales
in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber

Dr Emma Parker
Senior Lecturer, School of English
University of Leicester

Thursday 11

'This Disgusting Feast of Filth': Sarah Kane's Blasted

Dr Graham Saunders
Lecturer in Theatre
University of Reading

Friday 12

Contemporary Irish Poetry: Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian and Ciaran Carson

Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
University of Aberdeen

Week 6 (Contemporary Literature)

Monday 15

Suburban Cosmopolitanism: Postcolonial Identity inHanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia

Dr David Farrier
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

This lecture is kindly sponsored by Faber & Faber.

Tuesday 16

'Ireland Mustn't Be Such a Bad Place': Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan

Dr Patrick Lonergan
School of Humanities
National University of Ireland, Galway

Wednesday 17

Identity, Memory, and Voice: Jackie Kay ’s Trumpet

Dr Stella Bolaki
Lecturer in American Literature, English Department
University of Glasgow

This lecture is kindly sponsored by Picador.

Thursday 18

‘These strange dislocations': War as Fiction and Fiction as War
in J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun

Dr Sebastian Groes
Lecturer in English Literature
Roehampton University

Friday 19

Multi-f/vocal: Contemporary British Poetry & Cultural Representation

Alan Jamieson
Dept. of English Literature
University of Edinburgh