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Dr. Kirsty Macdonald

by Colin — last modified 2010-11-08 15:45

MA (Hons) (Glasgow), M.Phil (with distinction) (Stirling), PhD (Glasgow)

Kirsty is a lecturer in the department, leading a number of modules on literature, language and film.

Dr Kirsty Macdonald

She graduated with a joint honours MA in Scottish Literature and English Language from the University of Glasgow in 2001, and gained a distinction for her work on her M.Phil in The Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling in 2002. She completed her doctoral thesis in 2005, researching madness and the supernatural in Scottish fiction. Her current research interests include Scottish literature of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, theoretical approaches to Scottish literature, representations of the Highlands and Islands in fiction and film, the Gothic, and contemporary Gaelic culture.

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Publications:

  • Review of James Hogg paperbacks, Scottish Studies Review, Volume 5, no.1 (Spring 2004)
  • Entries on www.bbc.co.uk/writingscotland.
  • ‘Personal, Political and Preternatural: Troy Kennedy Martin’s Edge of Darkness and A.L. Kennedy’s So I Am Glad’, in To the Other Shore: Crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish Studies (Belfast: Queen’s University Press, 2004), pp.95-101
  • ‘Something Definite to Reject, or Why Realism Isn’t the Answer’, in The Seeker: A Glasgow Literary Review (Summer 2005), www.glasgowseeker.com/articles.shtml
  • ‘“As Upon a Post-hypnotic Threshold”: Death as a Beginning in Wilson Harris’s Black Marsden and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark’, in Beginnings: Critical Perspectives on English Studies, ed. Angela Brüning, (Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, 2005), pp.32-38
  • ‘Against Realism: Contemporary Culture and the Supernatural’, in The Edinburgh Companion to Twenty-First Century Scottish Literature and Culture, ed. Berthold Schoene, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
  • ‘Anti-heroes and Androgynes: Gothic Masculinities in Contemporary Scottish Men’s Fiction’, in The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, no. 3 (November 2007)
  • ‘Seeing Simultaneously from Above and Below: The Impossibility of the Real in Late Twentieth-Century Scottish Fiction’ in Revisioning Scotland: New Readings of the Cultural Canon ed. Lyndsay Lunan, Kirsty A Macdonald and Carla Sassi, (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008). As co-editor, I also wrote the introduction to this collection.
  • ‘Dulchas agus Dùbhlanachd: Contemporary Gaelic Culture’, in Voices of the West: Minority Languages in Broadcasting and Education (forthcoming)
  • ‘The idea of North in Contemporary Scottish Gothic’, in Gothic Studies (forthcoming 2010)
  • ‘From the Cairngorms to the Cordillera Real: Representations of the Highlands and Islands in Recent Scottish Fiction’, in "What Country's This? And Whither are we Gone?" The Literature of Region and Nation (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
  • ‘A Kind of Second Birth: the Supernatural in Scottish Women’s Writing’, in The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women’s Writing ed. Glenda Norquay (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

Recent conference papers:

  • ‘As Upon a Post-Hypnotic Threshold: Death as a Beginning in the Work of Wilson Harris and Alasdair Gray’, Beginnings Conference, University of Stirling 2003
  • ‘Personal, Political and Preternatural: Troy Kennedy Martin’s Edge of Darkness and A.L. Kennedy’s So I Am Glad’, Crosscurrents: Scottish and Irish Literature Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast, 25th – 27th April 2003
  • Trailblazing: the Second GSAH Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, October 2003
  • ‘Seeing Simultaneously from Above and Below: The Impossibility of the Real in Late Twentieth Century Scottish Fiction’, The Seventh European Society for the Study of English conference, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, 8th – 12th September 2004
  • ' “Where Madness and Death Await”: Scottish Fiction's Journey North as a Journey into the Semiotic’, The Culture of Travel: the Third GSAH Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, 29th and 30th October 2004
  • '‘Dulchas agus Dubhlanachd: Contemporary Gaelic Culture’, Voices of the West: Minority Languages in Education and Broadcasting Conference, Inverness, 21st June 2008
  • ‘From the Cairngorms to the Cordillera Real: Representations of the Highlands and Islands in Recent Scottish Fiction’, The Twelfth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, University of Aberdeen, 30th July – 2nd August 2008
  • ‘The Journey North in Scottish Gothic’, Scottish Gothic Symposium, University of Stirling, 24th October 2009

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