Current Postgraduate Students & Topics

Ph.D. | M.Litt by Research | M.Phil by Research | Current Taught Degree Students

 Ph.D.

Caroline Baraniuk,  Ulster poetry in the Scots Tradition in the late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (supervisor: Dr Gerry Carruthers)

Linden Bicket, Finding the Sacramental in the Everyday:  Catholicism in the Work of George Mackay Brown (supervisors: Dr Kirsteen McCue/Dr Gerry Carruthers)

Alasdair Braidwood, Existential Thought and Fictional Method in the Modern Scottish Novel (supervisors: Theo van Heijnsbergen / Prof. Alan Riach)

Megan Coyer, James Hogg and Popular Scientific Culture  (supervisor: Dr. Kirsteen McCue)

Alex Cuthbert, Voicing the Age: European Intellectualism in the Poetry of David Lyndsay, Robert Fergusson and Edwin Muir (supervisors: Dr. Kirsteen McCue / Theo van Heijnsbergen)

Pauline Gray, Bawdry, Gender and the Body in the Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns (supervisor: Dr Gerry Carruthers)

Lisa Harrison, Context, Canonicity and Cosmopolitics: Scottish Literature since the 1950s (supervisors: Prof. Alan Riach / Dr. Gerry Carruthers)

James Lauchlan, Mapping Scottish Postmodernism (supervisor: Dr. Gerry Carruthers joint with English Literature)

Iain Macdonald, Fionn MacColla and the Gaelic Experience (supervisor: Prof Alan Riach)

Claire McCallum, The solitary in society: the work of William Soutar (supervisor: Dr. Kirsteen McCue)

Kirsten Matthews, Referential Poetics and the Reach of Possibility in Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘Poetic World’ (supervisor: Prof. Alan Riach)

Alex Scroggie, Sir George Mackenzie (1636-1691): Virtuoso Scoto-Latinity in late 17th century Scotland (supervisor: Dr Gerry Carruthers, joint with Scottish History / Prof. Colin Kidd)

Mark Smith The Literature of Shetland (supervisors: Prof Alan Riach / Dr Gerry Carruthers)

M.Litt by Research

Tony Mathieson, Representations and Treatment of Catholicism in Scottish Fiction (supervisor: Dr. Gerry Carruthers)

M.Phil by Research

Julian Good, Human Agency in Robert Henryson’s Fables (supervisor: Theo van Heijnsbergen)

Elizabeth Macaulay, Poetry and Propaganda of the Union of 1707 (supervisor: Dr Gerry Carruthers / Dr Karin Bowie)

Sylvia Morgan, The crisis of capitalism in interwar Glasgow and its realistic representation (supervisor:  Dr Gerry Carruthers / Dr Irene Maver)

Jennifer Orr, The Poetry of Samuel Thomson (supervisors: Dr Gerry Carruthers / Dr Rhona Brown)

Current Taught Degree Students

Distance-Taught MLitt

• Andrew Pollock
• John Ford
• Irina Brantner
• Barbara Cade

‘Internal’ Taught M.Phil

• Jackie Howie

MLitt in Scottish Studies (Joint degree with the Department of Scottish History)

• Thomas Murphy