The Summer School Staff

Directors

Karin Sellberg

Karin has been a tutor for SUISS since 2010 and a Co-Director since April 2012. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh’s English Literature Department in 2010, where she also teaches throughout the regular academic year. Her research focuses primarily on critical theory and conceptions of gender, embodiment, time and history in contemporary literature, with a specific interest in contemporary explorations, adaptations and encounters with the English Renaissance stage. She has published extensively on Angela Carter, John Cameron Mitchell, Gore Vidal, A. L. Kennedy and Jeanette Winterson as well as slightly more mature writers like William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton. At the moment, Karin is developing a particular interest in connections between literary and medical discourses and she is thus excited to see more and more medical students and young doctors joining the creative writing course at SUISS. As always, she is greatly looking forward to this year’s summer school and she relishes the opportunity to get to meet new scholars from different cultural and academic backgrounds!

Konstantina Georganta

Konstantina first worked as a tutor for SUISS in 2008 and has been the Co-Director since May 2010. She completed her PhD thesis in 2009 at the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her thesis explored encounters between British, Irish and Greek poetry in the period 1922-52 and considered the work of T.S. Eliot, C.P. Cavafy, W.B. Yeats, Kostes Palamas, Demetrios Capetanakis, John Lehmann and Louis MacNeice. She has published on the Smyrna merchant of Eliot’s The Waste Land, William Plomer’s poetry and short stories about 1930s Greece while ongoing projects involve Louis MacNeice’s 1950s radio plays, British political caricature and Smyrna in the 1920s and the Greek equivalent to Beat poetics. She is interested in Modernist and Contemporary literature and her research focuses on poetic loans between Britain, Ireland and Greece in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. More than the pleasure of getting to know fellow scholars from around the world, SUISS offers a great opportunity to see in practice the ways in which diverse people and their languages mingle and converse with British and Irish literary voices, while the cultural programme is a treat! As ever, looking forward to this year’s SUISS!

Administrator

Nan Mulder

Nan has been the Administrator of SUISS since 1998, a job she continues to enjoy. She is your first point of contact during the year, as she is most days in the SUISS office and will help you with your questions and requests. It is amazing how much organisation goes into those six weeks, but every year it all comes together and provides an incredible rewarding time to all the students and staff. It’s always very exciting when the new students arrive in Edinburgh, and it is an immense pleasure to meet them all. Though during the School Nan will be working more behind the scenes, you will meet her at evening events or in the morning lectures. When she is not working for SUISS, you can find her in her studio, as she is also a visual artist, or in the workshop of Edinburgh Printmakers.