Dr Eleanor Bell

Senior Lecturer

English & Creative Writing

Personal statement

I am a Senior Lecturer in Scottish Literature within the Department of Humanities.

My research focuses broadly on twentieth century Scottish literature. I am currently working on a monograph on Scottish literary magazine culture from 1950 to 2000 for Edinburgh University Press, as well an edited collection on Scottish magazines and political culture from 1968-1999 (also EUP) with Scott Hames and Malcolm Petrie.

From April 2026- December 2028 I will be working on an AHRC-funded project on Glasgow writer Archie Hind ('Beyond The Dear Green Place: The Lost Works and Literary Networks of Archie Hind'). You can read more about this project here: Archie Hind Archive at Strathclyde.

With Angela Bartie I co-edited The International Writers' Conference Revisited: Edinburgh, 1962 (Cargo Publishing, 2012), which was launched in August 2012 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The research from this book inspired the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference 2012-2013. I have also published another co-edited book in this area (The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? (Amsterdam: Rodopi 2013).

I am a member of the The Association for Scottish Literature and founding co-editor (with Scott Hames) of the International Journal of Scottish Literature from 2006-2010. I am a member of Universities Committee for Scottish Literature

I am an affiliated staff member of the Scottish Oral History Centre, and many of my current research students also adopt oral history methodologies in their work.

I have supervised a broad range of PhDs, mainly on Scottish literary topics (including Naomi Mitchison, Alexander Trocchi, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alasdair Gray, Agnes Owens, community writing in Glasgow, Glasgow and deindustrialisation).

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a potential PhD project.

Expertise

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Prize And Awards

Teaching Excellence Nomination: Recipient; 2019
Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Award: Recipient; 2013
Strathclyde University Teaching Excellence Award: Recipient; 2010
Tuition Fellowship: Recipient; 1999

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Publications

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Publications

From the Second World War to the 1970s: Bell Eleanor; The International Companion to the Scottish Novel (2025) (2025)
From Sidewalk to Feedback : Interconnections between Scottish Literary Magazines in the Early Sixties: Bell Eleanor; Place and the Periodical (2024)
Documenting the Lives of Contemporary Scottish Writers : Findings from the Archives & Collaborative Practices: Bell Eleanor; World Congress of Scottish Literatures (2024)
Magazines, Devolution & Makars : the Institutions of Scottish Literature: Bell Eleanor; The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (2023) (2023)
Leaps and bounds : feminist interventions in Scottish literary print culture: Bell Eleanor; Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, Vol 5 Women's Print Media in the Postwar Period (2020) (2020)
'Five stones underneath' : Literary representations of the Lockerbie air disaster: Bell Eleanor; Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Vol 61, pp. 341-353 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1715913

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Teaching

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Teaching

At undergraduate level I teach modules on 'Sixties Britain: Literature, Culture, Counterculture', 'Glasgow Narratives', 'Detective Fiction' and 'The Construction of Scotland: Text and Context'.

I was previously module co-ordinator for both the undergraduate work placement and the postgraduate research placement classes in English & Creative Writing.

Research

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Research Interests

My research broadly focusses on twentieth century Scottish literature. I am author of Questioning Scotland: Literature, Nationalism, Postmodernism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and co-editor of The Scottish Sixties:Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? (Rodopi, 2013), The International Writers' Conference Revisited: Edinburgh, 1962 (Cargo, 2012) and Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Literature and Culture (Rodopi, 2004).

I am currently working on a monograph on Scottish literary magazine culture from 1950-2000 for EUP, as well as an edited collection on Scottish magazines and political culture from 1968-1999 (also EUP) with Scott Hames and Malcolm Petrie.

From April 2026 until December 2028 I am PI on the AHRC project 'Beyond The Dear Green Place: The Lost Works and Literary Networks of Archie Hind'.