Dr David Borthwick
- Lecturer (Interdisciplinary Studies)
telephone: 01387702024
email: David.Borthwick@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
David holds an MA in English and Scottish Literature and a PhD in Contemporary Scottish Literature. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research interests
David specialises in Modern and Contemporary Scottish Literature. Increasingly, his research concerns literature's responses to historical and contemporary environmental conditions, in particular poetic responses to landscape and place.
Undergraduate
Course convenor for:
- Literature 1A: Introductory Module
- Literature 1B: Writing and Self
- Level 2: Creative Writing
- Level 3: Scottish Writing and the New Millennium
- Level 3: The Level Three Dissertation
Contributor to:
- Level 1: Text and Communication
- Level 3: Power Culture & Criticism
Access
David is convenor of the School School for Access (see Spring/Summer Events Brochure 2011)
Reviews / Other
Margaret Elphinstone, Voyageurs (2003), Scottish Studies Review (Autumn 2004).
Monographs on Irvine Welsh by Aaron Kelly and Robert Morace, International Journal of Scottish Literature (Winter 2007).
Profiled at The Bottle Imp, Scottish Studies E-zine (Spring 2009).
Matt McGuire, Contemporary Scottish Literature (2009), Edinburgh Review, 126 (Spring 2009).
Kaye Mitchell, A.L. Kennedy (2009), Scottish Literary Review, 1.2 (Autumn/Winter 2009).
Conference papers
'"The tilt from one parish/into another": Liminality and Continuity in Poetry by John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie and Robin Robertson', Landscape/Mindscape, Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 24-25 June 2010.
'"To Comfort Me With Nothing:" John Burnside's Spiritual Meliorism,' Poetry and Belief, University of Central Lancashire, 24-25 April, 2009.
'"The Alchemy of Studied Absence:" John Burnside's Novels and Failed Ecology,' Activism, Apocalypse and the Avant-Garde, Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment - UK, University of Edinburgh, 10-13 July, 2008.
'"Learning to Observe the Winters:" Absence and Abandonment in the Poetry of John Burnside,' Poetic Ecologies: Nature as Text and Text as Nature, Université Libres de Bruxelles, 14-17 May, 2008.
'The Sustainable Male: Masculine Ecology in the Poetry of John Burnside,' Masculinity and the Other, Balliol College, Oxford, 29-30 August, 2007
‘Alan Warner’s Concession Lands,’ The Lie of the Land: Scottish Landscape and Culture, University of Stirling, 27–30 July, 2006
‘One Diagnosis, Two Procedures: Barke’s Major Operation as Prose and Drama,’ Remembering James Barke, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 12 November 2005.