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Department: Philosophy. Centre for Study of Perceptual Experience
Specialist subjects:
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, perception, colour, pain and bodily awareness, consciousness; philosophy of psychology; consciousness; some areas within applied ethics (medical ethics, bioethics).
Banks, Dr Iain
Department: School of Humanities
Specialist subjects:
Scottish Archaeology, especially Iron Age; battlefield archaeology; geophysical survey
Bishop, Professor Paul
Department: German (Modern Languages and Cultures)
Specialist subjects:
German language and culture, current German media issues, psychoanalysis, history of ideas, philosophy; Austrian culture
Black, Professor Christopher F.
Department: History (Modern)
Specialist subjects:
Italian early modern social, religious and cultural history; esp. Confraternities, Inquisition.
Blanton, Dr Ward
Department: Theology & Religious Studies
Specialist subjects:
New Testament interpretation; Christian origins; Greco-Roman contexts of early Christianity; history of biblical interpretation; Bible and media; modernity, secularism and the study of religion.
Bowie, Karin
Department: History
Specialist subjects:
Early modern Scottish history (1500-1800), especially popular politics, religious culture and the Union of 1707
Boyle, Dr Karen
Department: Theatre, Film & Television Studies
Specialist subjects:
Media violence. Debates about pornography. Feminist film and television criticism.
Boyle, Professor Raymond
Department: Centre for Cultural Policy Research, TFTS
Specialist subjects:
Media and sport; sports journalism; coverage of business in the media
Bracke, Maud
Department: History
Specialist subjects:
European history 20th century; Cold War in Europe; 1968; history of the Left
Brady, Michael
Department: Philosophy
Specialist subjects:
Moral Philosophy, The Emotion, Epistemology, Metaethics
Brown, Dr Rhona
Department: School of Critical Studies
Specialist subjects:
'Robert Fergusson; Allan Ramsay; Robert Burns; eighteenth-century Scottish literature, the eighteenth-century Scottish periodical press.
Butt, John
Department: Music
Specialist subjects:
Historical Musicology (17th-18th century); German Baroque music and especially Bach; Cultures of musical restoration and historical perofrmance practice; Music and modernity; Performance (conducting, organ), especially, Baroque music;
Caie, Graham
Department: Vice Principal
Specialist subjects:
Medieval English language and literature; editing medieval manuscripts (incl. digitisation); medieval drama; Arthurian literature; Scots language; historical linguistics; general issues about English language.
Carruthers, Dr Gerard
Department: Scottish Literature
Specialist subjects:
Robert Burns; Walter Scott; 18th century; James Bridie; Muriel Spark; Scottish culture and Scottish cultural identity
Cloonan, Martin
Department: Music
Specialist subjects:
Popular music; censorship
Dixon, Dr Martin
Department: Music
Specialist subjects:
Aesthetics and philosophy of music; music technology; popular culture; new music composition; musical avant-garde
Dr Jan Culik
Department: SMLC, Slavonic Studies
Specialist subjects:
Czech literature, politics and culture, Czech media, Czech cinema
Dr John M Bates
Department: SMLC, Slavonic Studies
Specialist subjects:
Polish media Censorship Polish literature and history
Dr Kirstie Blair
Department: English Literature
Specialist subjects:
Victorian literature, particularly poetry Victorian religion Children's literature, nineteenth and twentieth century Neovictorianism
Ferguson, Dr Christine
Department: English Literature
Specialist subjects:
Victorian Literature and Culture; Literature and Science; Spiritualism; the Gothic; Disability Studies
Gair, Dr Chris
Department: English Literature
Specialist subjects:
American literary and visual cultures; Beat Generation American Counterculture; C.L.R. James; Jack London; Trans-Atlantic Literary Relations
Gibbs, Professor Robert
Department: History of Art
Specialist subjects:
Medieval art and architecture; Bolognese painting and illumination; legal iconography; medieval legal manuscripts; F.T.Pilkington; Talwin Morris
Grove, Dr Laurence
Department: French
Specialist subjects:
Comics and Graphic Novels, especially in French. For example Asterix, Tintin, Blake et Mortimer
Hanson, Professor W.S.
Department: Archaeology
Specialist subjects:
Roman Scotland; Roman Britain; Roman Dacia (modern Romania); Roman frontiers; archaeological methodology; archaeological aerial reconnaissance
Harrison, Dr Victoria
Department: Philosophy
Specialist subjects:
Philosophy of Religion, Applied Ethics, Classical Indian and Chinese Philosophies, Religious Pluralism, Religious Epistemology, Philosphical Theology, Religion and Modern Thought
Hazlett, Prof Ian
Department: Theology & Religious Studies
Specialist subjects:
History of Christianity (but not Bible Studies)
Heddon, Deirdre
Department: School of Culture and Creative Arts
Specialist subjects:
Experimental theatre and performance, live art, performance art, contemporary performance, autobiographical performance, feminist performance, site-specific/environmental theatre, queer theatre.
Heinrich, Dr Anselm
Department: Theatre, Film and Television Studies
Specialist subjects:
German and British theatre history, particularly 19th and 20th century; comparative aspects in theatre; 20th century German history (including the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich); football in Germany
Henderson, Dr Lizanne
Department: School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Specialist subjects:
Witch-Hunts in Scotland, Europe, North America and Africa; Cultural History of Animals; Scottish Folklore; The Scottish Diaspora (esp. North America, Caribbean, Africa); Scottish Connections with the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Hunter, Alastair G
Department: Theology & Religious Studies
Specialist subjects:
Hebrew; Old Testament (especially Psalms, and Wisdom Literature); Bible and Literary Theory; Judaism; Holocaust
Innocenti, Perla
Department: History of Art
Specialist subjects:
Modern and contemporary museography and museology; Digital Preservation methodologies and technologies (in particular for computer-based artefacts); Risk Assessment for Digital Repositories; Digital libraries Design; 2D and 3D Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage; Usage models for ICT
Jasper, Professor David
Department: Theology and Religious Studies
Specialist subjects:
Literature and Theology; Hermeneutics; Theology and the Arts
Jones, Sarah
Department: HATII
Specialist subjects:
Performing arts archives; cross-domain work in the heritage sector
Lowe, Dr Kathryn
Department: English Language
Specialist subjects:
Old and Middle English; history of the English language; Old Norse; manuscript studies
MacDonald, Margaret F
Department: History of Art
Specialist subjects:
James McNeill Whistler's life and work, particularly etchings
Macpherson, Dr Fiona
Department: Philosophy and Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience
Specialist subjects:
Philosophy of mind; philosophy of perception; philosophy of psychology; consciousness
Maley, Professor Willy
Department: English Literature
Specialist subjects:
Creative Writing; Shakespeare; Scottish Literature; Irish Literature; Literary Theory (Deconstruction, Marxism, Postcolonialism).
Mawdsley, Professor Evan
Department: History
Specialist subjects:
European History; Russian History, Russian Revolution and Civil War; Stalin; Second World War; Cold War; modern military history
McCue, Kirsteen C
Department: School of Critical Studies
Specialist subjects:
Scottish Literature & Music, Scottish Song, Burns, Hogg and women's song in Scotland
Pittock, Professor Murray
Department: English Literature
Specialist subjects:
Robert Burns, Jacobitism, the constitution and Scottish politics.
Pollard, Dr Tony
Department: Centre for Battlefield Archaeology
Specialist subjects:
Battlefields; military history; conflict archaeology; general archaeology; forensic archaeology
Professor Werner G. Jeanrond
Department: School of Critical Studies
Specialist subjects:
The role of religion in politics and society; Pluralist democracy and religion; Christian faith and theology: development and significance; the question of God, Hermeneutics and the pluralism of biblical interpretation; Love in Western culture; Contemporary Sweden; Contemporary Germany
Randall, Dr Bryony
Department: English Literature
Specialist subjects:
Modernist literature, particularly the early modernist period; literature and the everyday.
Specific interests in: literary theory (particularly feminist and materialist approaches); women's writing, in particular the New Woman; the relationships between literature and psychology, philosophy and sociology; literature and work; literature and time.
Roach, Dr Andrew P.
Department: History
Specialist subjects:
Medieval heresy (especially Cathars) Inquisition. friars including Francis of Assisi. Medieval popular religion. Balkan history including Vlad Tepes, Dracula. Network theory in history.
Schlesinger, Professor Philip
Department: Centre for Cultural Policy Research
Specialist subjects:
Media policy, cultural policy
Siddiqui, Professor Mona
Department: Theology and Religious Studies, School of Critical Studies
Specialist subjects:
Islamic law and theology, contemporary Islam and ethics, gender, religion and politics, inter-religious issues
Stuart, Susan
Department: Philosophy / HATII
Specialist subjects:
Consciousness - human, animal and machine; Artificial Intelligence Agency and embodiment; Kant's epistemology and metaphysics - the Critique of Pure Reason; Cyberspace, virtual worlds, technology and notions of identity and the self
Wiggins, Dr Alison
Department: English Language
Specialist subjects:
Language and Literature 1300-1600 (especially Middle English, Chaucer, romance); manuscripts; letter writing; online editing; web editions