David Kinloch teaches on the creative writing programmes of the
Department at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and
contributes classes in Scottish literature to the English Studies
degree.
A recipient of the 2004 Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award, he has held a Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary. He held a Research Grant from the AHRC in 2007-8 to work on a book of poems about visual art. The collection, Finger of a Frenchman, is forthcoming from Carcanet in 2011.
His poetry has been widely published at home and abroad. As a critic, he is also the author of many articles, edited books and monographs in the fields of Translation Studies, French Literature and Scottish Literature.
Research Supervision
David is interested in supervising creative writing postgraduate students who wish to
work on a manuscript of poetry and has a particular interest in
projects involving poetry and visual arts.
Publications
Books
Finger of a Frenchman (Carcanet, forthcoming 2010) poetry
In My Father's House (Carcanet, 2005) poetry
Un Tour d'Ecosse (Carcanet, 2001) poetry
Paris-Forfar (Polygon, 1994) poetry
The Thought and Art of Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824 (Clarendon Press, 1992)
Edited Books
Situating Mallarme, edited with Gordon Millan (Peter Lang, 2000)
Une Nouvelle Alliance: Influences francophones sur la litterature ecossaise moderne, edited with Richard Price (Ellug Universite Stendhal, Grenoble, 2000)
4 Carnets de Joseph Joubert, edited with Philippe Mangeot (London, Institute of Romance Studies, 1996)
Talking Verse, Interviews with Poets, edited with Robert Crawford, Henry Hart and Richard Price (Verse, 1994)
Reading Douglas Dunn, edited with Robert Crawford (Edinburgh University Press, 1992)
Selected Papers in Journals and Chapters in Books
'Lilies or Skelfs: Translating Queer Melodrama', The Translator, vol. 13, no. 1 (2007) pp.83-103
'Macbeth in Quebecois and Scots', The Translator, vol. 8, no.1, (2002), pp.73-100
'Edwin Morgan's Cyrano de Bergerac' in Frae Ither Tongues: Essays on Modern Translations into Scots, edited by Bill Findlay (Multilingual Matters, Clevedon etc, 2004) 123-144
'Songs of the Flute-Bone: Scots Translations of Michel Tremblay' in Une Nouvelle Alliance: Influences francophones sur la litterature ecossaise moderne, edited by David Kinloch and Richard Price (Ellug, Universite Stendhal, 2000), 211-240
'From the Debateable Lands': A Survey and Selection of Contemporary Scottish Poetry in The Yearbook of Comparative Criticism, Cambridge University Press, 1998)
'Reading and Writing in Joubert's Carnets', The Modern Language Review, vol. 91, no. 2 (1996)342-354
'The Music inside fruit: Douglas Dunn and France' in Reading Douglas Dunn, edited Kinloch and Crawford as above (EUP, 1992), 151-167
'The Status of Art in Joubert's Carnets, in Ideology and Religion in French Literature, Essays in honour of Brian Juden, (University of LOndon, 1989)
'The Art of the Missing Postscript: Some Unpublished Manuscripts of Joseph Joubert', Nottingham French Studies, vol.24, no. 2 (1985) 12-27
Anthologies / Poetry Magazines and Journals
David Kinloch's poetry and translations have appeared in a wide range of anthologies including Dream State, The New Scottish Poets ed., by D. O'Rourke (Polygon, 1994 and 2002), 20th Century Scottish Poems ed., by Douglas Dunn (Faber, 2000), Gay Love Poetry ed. by Neil Powell (London, Robinson, 1997) and Scottish Creative Writing: Working with Words ed. by Valerie Thornton (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1995). He has been a contributor to many national and international magazines and journals, among them: Cencrastus, Edinburgh Review, Etudes ecossaises, The Jacarandah Review, Lines Review, The Literary Review, London Magazine, New Writing Scotland, PN Review, Poetry Review, The Rialto, La Traductiere and Verse.