The Scottish Universities'
International Summer School

The Summer School Lecture Programme

Lecture Programme 2013

JULY

Week One (Modernism)

Tuesday 9

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the Origins of Modernism

Dr Peter Garratt
Department of English Studies
University of Durham

Wednesday 10

John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps

Dr Timothy Baker
Department of English
University of Aberdeen

Thursday 11

Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

Dr Jane Goldman
Department of English Literature
University of Glasgow

Friday 12

T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Dr Jason Harding
Department of English Studies
University of Durham

Week Two (Modernism)

Monday 15

City of Words: the Palaver of Dubliners

Dr John Coyle
Department of English Literature
University of Glasgow

Tuesday 16

Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984

Dr Anna Vaninskaya
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Wednesday 17

Liminal Women: Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight

Emeritus Professor Angela Smith
Department of English Studies
University of Stirling

Thursday 18

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Dr Rex Ferguson
School of English, Drama, Canadian & American Studies
University of Birmingham

Friday 19

W.B. Yeats' Purgatory and Selected Poetry

Dr Graham Price
School of English, Drama & Film
University College Dublin

Week Three (Scottish Literature)

Tuesday 23

Introducing Scottish Literature since 1900: The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid

Dr Alex Thomson
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Wednesday 24

Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the End of an Era

Emeritus Professor Ian Campbell
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Thursday 25

Edwin Morgan and Scottish Poetry

Professor Robert Crawford
School of English
University of St Andrews

Friday 26

Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Driver's Seat

Professor Willy Maley
Department of English Literature
University of Glasgow

AUGUST

Week Four (Scottish Literature)

Monday 29

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

Dr Robert Irvine
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Tuesday 30

Dissecting the Corpus: Alasdair Gray's Poor Things

Dr Emma Lister
Department of English Literature
University of Glasgow

Wednesday 31

1980's Social Realism: Liz Lochhead's Mary Queen of Scots and selection from James Kelman's Greyhound for Breakfast

Dr Scott Hames
Department of English Studies
University of Stirling

Thursday 1

Alan Warner's Morven Callar and A.L. Kennedy's What Becomes

Dr Kaye Mitchell
Department of English Literature
University of Manchester

Friday 2

James Robertson's The Testament of Gideon Mack

Dr Linda Tym
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Week 5 (Contemporary Literature)

Tuesday 6

Introduction to Contemporary Literature: Samuel Beckett's Endgame

Professor John Drakakis
Department of English Studies
University of Stirling

Wednesday 7

Becoming-Woman and Becoming-Animal in Angela Carter's Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Dr Karin Sellberg
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Thursday 8

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

Dr Michelle Keown
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Friday 9

Contemporary Urban Poetry

Robert Alan Jamieson
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh

Week 6 (Contemporary Literature)

Monday 12

Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

Dr Sebastian Groes
Department of English and Creative Writing
University of Roehampton

Tuesday 13

Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship

Dr Denis Flannery
School of English
University of Leeds

Wednesday 14

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

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

Thursday 15

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

Professor Alison Lumsden
Department of English
University of Aberdeen

Friday 16

Very Contemporary Literature: Ali Smith's There But For The

Dr Fiona McCulloch
Department of English
University of Bradford