Completed Dissertations

PhD

Karla Benske, The Theme of Loyalty in the Fiction of Stuart Hood, James Kennaway, Allan Massie, and William McIlvanney (supervisor: Prof. Alan Riach)

Rodge Glass, Working with Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography (supervisor: Dr. Gerry Carruthers, joint with English Literature / Prof. Willy Maley)

Ralph MacLean, Rhetoric, Culture and Literary Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment (supervisor: Dr Gerry Carruthers, joint with Scottish History / Prof. Colin Kidd)

Sebastiaan Verweij, Manuscript Circulation and Literary Cultures in Late Sixteenth-Century Scotland (supervisor: Theo van Heijnsbergen)Niall O'Gallagher, Alasdair Gray and Empire (2007)

Christopher John L. Stokoe (2007), The Fiction of Neil Gunn

Moira Burgess (2006), "Between the words of a song" : supernatural and mythical elements in the Scottish fiction of Naomi Mitchison

Beata Kohlbek (2006), The Fiction and Journalism of Neil Munro: Bridging the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Robert Groves (2005), 'Planned and purposeful' or 'without second thought'? : formulaic language and incident in Barbour's Brus

Helen Lloyd (2005), Witness to a century : the autobiographical writings of Naomi Mitchison

Lyndsay Lunan (2005), The Fiction of Identity: Hugh Miller and the Working Man’s Search for Literary Voice in Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature

Kirsty Macdonald (2005), Spectral ambiguities : the tradition of psychosomatic supernaturalism in Scottish fiction

Rhona Brown (2004), "For what use was I made, I wonder?" : The Construction and Revision of Robert Fergusson in His Cultural Context

Simon Hall (2004), The Literature of Orkney

Monica Germana (2003), Reworking the Magic, 1978-2001. A Parallel Study of Six Scottish Women Writers of the Late Twentieth Century: Margaret Elphinstone, Sian Hayton, Alison Fell, Ali Smith, Emma Tennant and Alice Thompson

Kirsty Williams (2003), Structures of Belonging: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney

M.Litt by Research

Marguerite Nesling (2006), Stadialism and improvement in eighteenth-century Scottish literature: a Newtonian reading of Adam Smith's Theory of moral sentiments and its influence on Henry Mackenzie's The man of feeling and James Macpherson's Fragments of ancient poetry

David Hay (2002), The Word as Reassurance: Voices of Precaution and Warning in Early Seventeenth-Century Scottish Literature

Heather Vinson (2002), Creative Evolution in the Novels of Nan Shepherd

M.Phil by Research

Alexander Cuthbert (2007), Humanism and Reformation: The Confluence of European Thought in the Regicentric Poetry of David Lyndsay

Pauline Gray (2006), The Correspondence of Robert Burns and ‘Clarinda’: Man and Woman of Feeling

Kirsty McRoberts (2004), Shape Shifting, Metamorphosis and the Cycle of Life and Death in Early Modern Scottish Poetry

Gillian Reid (2004), The Figure of the Devil: Demonic Representation in Scottish Literature, 1785-1999: With Special Reference to Selected Works by Five Major Authors in the Scottish Tradition: Burns, Hogg, Stevenson, Spark and Morgan

Faith Hobbis (2002), "That night", Vane's Struggle for Christian Identity in George MacDonald's "Lilith"

Joyce McKerrow (2002), Under the Influence: Addiction and Literary Politics in Five Scottish Contemporary Novels

Leah Rankin (2002), Landscapes of Eden and Hell in the Modern Scottish Novel

'Internal' Taught (MLitt/MPhil*)

Megan Coyer (2006)
Jason Hynes (2006)
Emma Miller (2006)
Sarah Pihl (2006)
Lisa Ball [Harrison] (2005)
Alistair Braidwood (2005)
Mariken Schipper (2005)
Gretchen Werner (2005)
Yuri Morita (2005)
Mollie Tubb (2005)
Kristy Bremner (2004)
Elena Aznar (2002)
Melissa Coll (2002)

Distance-Taught (MLitt/MPhil*)

Winfred Norman Jr 'Chip' Hasty (2004)
Gordon Millar (2003) with distinction
Mhairi Wallace (2003)

• Note: The degree conferred upon taught postgraduate students prior to the 2005-6 session was an MPhil. After this it changed to an MLitt.

Older Dissertations

PhD

Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir (2001), Pilgrims of Conscience: Quests for Morality and Self-Knowledge in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins

Gioia Angeletti (1997), Scottish eccentrics: The Tradition of Otherness in Scottish Poetry from Hogg to MacDiarmid

Valentina Bold (1997), 'Nature's making': James Hogg and the Autodidactic Tradition in Scottish Poetry

Charles Duffin (1999), Accents of Tradition and the Language of Romance: A Study in the Relationship of Popular Oral Tradition and Literary Culture in Scotland, 1700-1825

Morna Fleming (1997), The Impact of the Union of the Crowns on Scottish Lyric Poetry, 1584-1619

Katherine Gordon (2000), Voices from the 'Cauld East Country': Representations of Self in the Poetry of Violet Jacob and Marion Angus

Hazel Hynd (2001), Tradition and Rebellion: The Poetry of John Davidson

Neil McMillan (2000), Tracing Masculinities in the Twentieth-Century Scottish Men's Fiction

Aileen Riddell (1998), At the Verge of Their Proper Sphere: Early Nineteenth Century Scottish Women Novelists

Mary Seenan (2000), The Watcher at the Crossroads: Ideological Negotiations in the Fiction of N. Brysson Morrison

Kirsten Stirling (2001), The Image of the Nation as a Woman in Twentieth Century Scottish Literature: Hugh MacDiarmid, Naomi Mitchison, Alasdair Gray

Hanne Tange (2000), Writing the Nation: Four Inter-War Visions of Scotland

Eilidh Whiteford (1997), Political Histories, Politicised Spaces: Discourses of Power in the Fiction of Alasdair Gray

M.Litt by Research

Jill Higginson (1999), The Fiction of Jessie Kesson: Revisioning Aspects of Rural Life and Culture

John Douglas Macarthur (2001), A Study of Narrative Form in the Short Fiction of James Kelman

Amanda McLeod (2001), The Treatment of Gender in Twentieth-Century Scottish Women's Historical Fiction

M.Phil by Research

Maria Jesús Beltràn de Heredia (1998), Robert Burns, the Burns Cult and Scottish Popular Culture

Ronald Renton (1997), The Major Fiction of Neil Munro: A Revaluation

Completed Taught Degrees

Distance-Taught M.Phil

Catriona Carver (1998)
Maureen Farrell (1997)
Gordon Gibson (1999) with distinction
Neil Gillon (1995)
David Hay (1995)
Robert Hume (1999)
John Lafferty (1999) with distinction
Anne Matheson (1995) with distinction
Frances MacFarlane (1997)
Lesley Porter (1999)
Kathryn Reilly (1995) with distinction

‘Internal’ Taught M.Phil

Frances Abercromby (1997)
Patrick Barry (2001)
Alistair Brownlow (1997)
Helen Butter (1995)
Catherine Costello (1997)
Jennifer Driscoll (1996)
Jackie Fairgrieve (1997)
Gordon Fisher (1998)
Louisa Gairn (2001) with distinction
Drofn Gudmundsdottir (1995)
Uwe Kristen (1996) with distinction
Debbie Lissamore (1999)
Helen Lloyd (2000)
Natalie Peregrin Llanazares (1997)
McEwen, John (2000)
Alan Muir (2000)
Euan Page (1997)
Mark Quinn (1997)
Mark Robson (1998)
Diana Silvers (1997)
Gerry Stewart (1995)

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