The Scottish Universities'
International Summer School

The Summer School Lecture Programme

Morning lecture at SUISS 2006

Lecture Programme 2012

JULY

Week One (Modernism)

Tuesday 10

A Narratological Approach to the Historical Content of the Modernist Novel

Professor Stephen Kern
Humanities
Ohio State University

Wednesday 11

Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

Dr Bryony Randall
School of Critical Studies - English
University of Glasgow

Thursday 12

City of Words: the Palaver of Dubliners

Dr John Coyle
School of Critical Studies - English
University of Glasgow

Friday 13

'A net of small complications': Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September

Professor Andrew Bennett
Department of English
University of Bristol

Week Two (Modernism)

Monday 16

T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

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

Tuesday 17

Liminal Women: Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight

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

Wednesday 18

W.B. Yeats' Purgatory and Selected Poetry

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

Thursday 19

Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin

Dr Mark Rawlinson
School of English
University of Leicester

Friday 20

'Will this never finish?': Beckett and Modernism

Dr Adrienne Janus
English & Film Studies
University of Aberdeen

Week Three (Scottish Literature)

Tuesday 24

Scottish Literature since 1900: an Introduction

Dr Alex Thomson
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Wednesday 25

Hugh MacDiarmid and 20th Century Scottish Poetry

Professor Alan Riach
School of Critical Studies - Scottish Literature
University of Glasgow
note his publication in conjunction with ASLS

Thursday 26

Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the End of an Era

Professor emeritus Ian Campbell
Scottish and Victorian Literature
University of Edinburgh

Friday 27

Edwin Morgan and Scottish Independence

Professor Robert Crawford
School of English
University of St Andrews

AUGUST

Week Four (Scottish Literature)

Monday 30

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 31

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, Black Watch and Scottish Theatre

Dr Robert Irvine
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Wednesday 1

Dissecting the Corpus: Alasdair Gray's Poor Things

Dr Emma Lister
Department of English Literature
University of Glasgow

Thursday 2

'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 3

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

Dr Carole Jones
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Week 5 (Contemporary Literature)

Tuesday 7

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

Peter Krämer
School of Film & Television Studies
University of East Anglia

Wednesday 8

Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus

Dr Helen Stoddart
School of Critical Studies - English
University of Glasgow

Thursday 9

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

Dr Graham Saunders
Department of Film, Theatre and Television
University of Reading

Friday 10

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

Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Department of English Literature
University of Aberdeen

Week 6 (Contemporary Literature)

Monday 13

Coming of Age in Postcolonial London: Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia

Dr Michelle Keown
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Tuesday 14

Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan

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Wednesday 15

'Down at the bottom, the blood doesn't matter after all': Jackie Kay ’s Trumpet

Dr Alison Lumsden
Department of English
University of Aberdeen

Thursday 16

This Way to Inner Space: J.G. Ballard's Short Fiction

Dr Sebastian Groes
Department of English and Creative Writing
Roehampton University

Friday 17

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

Alan Jamieson
Department of English Literature - Creative Writing
University of Edinburgh