Personal statement
I joined the Faculty in 2001 as Leverhulme Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Scottish and Irish Literature. I have been a full-time lecturer in the School since 2004 and Senior Lecturer since 2012.
My general research interests are in twentieth-century Scottish literature, theories of the nation, literary criticism and cultural studies. My current research is on Scottish literary magazine culture from the 1960s to the 1990s. 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 also Chair of Universities Committee for Scottish Literature.
Teaching
I am course convenor of the MLitt in Interdisciplinary English Studies. The aim of this course is to give students a postgraduate education in aspects of English studies, particularly aspects which draw on the interdisciplinary possibilities of English studies. I am module leader of the MLitt module on Contemporary Scottish Cultural Studies, as well as the English & Creative Writing Research Placement. Please contact me directly if you would like to know more about this degree.
I am currently course organiser for the Honours module in Sixties Britain: Literature, Culture, Counterculture. At third year level I am module convenor of The Glasgow Novel, Detective Fiction, and the English & Creative Writing Work Placement.
At second year level I teach The Construction of Scotland: Text and Context.
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 Scottish literary magazine culture from 1960-1990. During 2018-2019 this work was supported by a Royal Society of Edinburgh small grant ('Little Magazine Culture in Scotland, 1960-1990').
Please contact me directly if you would like to discuss postgraduate studies in contemporary Scottish literature at Strathclyde.
Professional activities
- Guest lecture on James Roberston
- Speaker
- 14/8/2019
- 'From Modernism to the Counterculture: reappraising the literary significance of the Edinburgh International Writers’ Conference, 1962
- Speaker
- 23/5/2019
- External Examiner 'But this Cliff is not Dead: An Ecocritical Reading of Hugh MacDiarmid' Jasmine Blasiotti
- Examiner
- 6/2018
- Muriel Spark Centenary Symposium
- Participant
- 2/2/2018
- External Examiner for MLitt in English
- Examiner
- 2018
- The Quest for Truth in Fiction: The Scottish Literary Response to Lockerbie
- Speaker
- 2018
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Projects
- Little Magazine Culture in Scotland, 1960-1990
- Bell, Eleanor (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2019
- Quality Conversations in the ADR course
- Bell, Eleanor (Academic)
- Quality Conversations in the ADR course
- 15-Jan-2014
- ADR - Setting SMART Objectives course
- Bell, Eleanor (Academic)
- ADR - Setting SMART Objectives course
- 08-Jan-2014
- Strathclyde Programme in Research and Leadership: Masterclass in Supervising Research.
- Bell, Eleanor (Academic)
- Strathclyde Programme in Research and Leadership: Masterclass in Supervising Research.
- 17-Jan-2014
- Competition Doctoral 2010 Grant | Murphy, Roseannah
- Bell, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Edwards, Sarah (Co-investigator) Murphy, Roseannah (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2010 - 20-Jan-2018
- Competition Doctoral 2010 Grant
- Bell, Eleanor (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2010 - 31-Jan-2016
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