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Exploring the Novel

This course will examine a range of novels from a variety of periods and introduce students to various critical debates surrounding the form. We will examine selected works with a […]

Boundaries of the human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature

This course focuses on the definition of the human self in the Middle Ages and the different ways in which notions of 'selfhood' and the human are perceived and explored […]

Body in Literature

The aim of this course is to introduce some of the most influential ways in which literary writing has depicted and explored the human body, and to explore such ideas […]

Lena Wånggren

Dr Lena Wånggren teaches courses on English and Scottish Literature, gender studies and feminist writing, in the English Literature department and at the Centre for Open Learning.

Greg Walker

Professor Greg Walker (he/him) is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Greg is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the […]

Suzanne Trill

Suzanne’s early research focused on Tudor and Jacobean English women’s devotional poetry, specifically Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke and Aemilia Lanyer. After finding a manuscript by Anna Walker in the British […]

Allyson Stack

North American fiction in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly the work of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather the novel as a form fiction writers writing on writing psychoanalytic theory, […]

Alexandra Smith

Dr Alexandra Smith (PhD, SSEEES, UCL) is Reader in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she has been teaching since 2007.

Fionnuala Sinclair

Postgraduate research proposals are welcome on medieval French, Occitan and Italian literature and culture, and the inter-relation between these. Fionnùala has a particular interest in: inter-disciplinary research projects the relationship between […]

David Salter

Dr David Salter is a Lecturer in English Literature at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. His principal research interests lie in: The culture of the later Middle Ages Romance […]

Helen Parker

Dr Helen Parker is a Lecturer in Japanese at the Asian Studies department of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.

Nacim Pak-Shiraz

Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz is Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran, and Head of Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Nacim has also curated a […]

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