Dr Eleanor Bell

Senior Lecturer

English

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.

Publications

'Five stones underneath' : Literary representations of the Lockerbie air disaster
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Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Vol 61, pp. 341-353 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1715913
Rejecting the knitted claymore : the challenge to cultural nationalism in Scottish literary magazines of the 1960s and 1970s
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British Literature in Transition, 1960–1980 Flower Power (2018) (2018)
Into the centre of things : poetic travel narratives in the work of Kathleen Jamie and Nan Shepherd
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Kathleen Jamie Essays and Poems on her Work (2014) (2014)
Introduction
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The Scottish Sixties Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? (2013) (2013)
Writing nation? : experimentation and the 1960's
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The Edinburgh companion to scottish women's writing (2012) (2012)
Bella caledonia : woman, nation, text
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English Studies Vol 93, pp. 249-250 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2011.620280

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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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