Dr Corey Gibson

  • Lecturer in 20th Century Scottish Literature (Scottish Literature)

telephone: 0141 330 6179
email: Corey.Gibson@glasgow.ac.uk

R409,, Scottish Literature, 7 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500

Biography

Corey is from Dumfries and Galloway. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2012, for which he was awarded the G. Ross Roy Medal. His book, The Voice of the People: Hamish Henderson and Scottish Cultural Politics (EUP, 2015) was shortlisted for the Saltire Research Book of the Year. In 2012-13, Corey was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh. And in 2013-14 he was a UK-US Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2017-18, he was a Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia. Between 2014-18 he was Assistant Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. In 2018 Corey was appointed as Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature at Glasgow.

Corey is the editor of Hamish Henderson's Collected Poems (Polygon, 2019), and the author of articles and book chapters on balladry and critical theory; extremism and poiesis; war poetry; anonyms and the folk process; class and nationalism; flyting; and folk revivalism.

Research interests

Research interests include:

  • modern and contemporary Scottish poetry and fiction
  • radical theory
  • Marxist thought
  • folk culture
  • nationalism
  • literatures of work
  • modernism
  • the historical novel
  • feminist thought
  • working class literature

I welcome enquiries to supervise research students in any of these areas.

Research groups

  • Modernities

Publications

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2025

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2025) Cutting through the sound and fury of our schools' new set text lists. Herald, 10 Feb.

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2025) Literatures and Politics of the Post-War Folk Revival. In: Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)

2024

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2024) Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time ed. by James Purdon (review). Scottish Literary Review, 16(2), pp. 207-211. [Book Review]

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 and Young, Ronnie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1345-8187 (2024) 'Foreword', SQA's Summary Report: Scottish Text refresh consultation, November 2024. Project Report. SQA.

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2024) Proletarian nights in the Dear Green Place. Studies in Scottish Literature, (Accepted for Publication)

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2024) Folkways. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) A Companion to Scottish Literature. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 246-258. ISBN 9781119651444 (doi: 10.1002/9781119651550.ch20)

2023

Young, Ronnie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1345-8187 and Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2023) ‘Not the date of the Battle of Flodden or the capital of Finland’: Scottish Literature and its curricula. Studies in Scottish Literature, (Accepted for Publication)

Anderson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-7413, Gair, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6302-3291 and Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2023) 2 Countries, 4 Nations, 50 States: Reflecting on Cross-Atlantic Parallels in Regional Politics, Culture, and Identity between the USA and the UK. Fulbright End-Cap Event: Reflecting on Cross-Atlantic Parallels in Regional Politics, Culture, and Identity between the USA and the UK, Glasgow, UK, 21-23 June 2023.

2019

Henderson, Hamish (2019) Hamish Henderson: Collected Poems. Birlinn/Polygon: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781846974861

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2019) "The flowers of the forest are a' wede away": the dispersal of a familiar refrain. Scottish Literary Review, 11(1), pp. 103-124.

2018

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2018) ‘There’s A Witch In The Word Machine’ By Jenni Fagan. Bottle Imp(24), [Book Review]

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2018) Extremism in Poiesis and Praxis: Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, and Barry Goldwater, Oxford 1964. Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, 3(1), (doi: 10.26597/mod.0041)

2017

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2017) Hamish Henderson and our Historical Moment. [Website]

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2017) Clannish confines: The folk, the proletariat, and the people in modern Scottish literature. In: Goodridge, John and Keegan, Bridget (eds.) A History Of British Working Class Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 367-384. ISBN 9781108105392 (doi: 10.1017/9781108105392.025)

2016

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2016) Best Scottish Books of 2016: 'The Face on the Cutting Room Floor' by Cameron McCabe, Pan Macmillan, 2016. Bottle Imp(20), [Book Review]

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2016) Becoming anon: Hamish Henderson, community and the 'Folk Process'. In: Lyall, Scott (ed.) Community in Modern Scottish Literature. Brill, pp. 103-123. ISBN 9789004317444 (doi: 10.1163/9789004317451_007)

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2016) Flyting: 1964 and 2014. Journal of Scottish Thought, 8, pp. 102-116.

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2016) MacDiarmid, Hugh (1892–1978). In: Ross, Stephen (ed.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. (doi: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM1517-1)

2015

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2015) The Voice of the People: Hamish Henderson and Scottish Cultural Politics. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748696574 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696574.001.0001)

2014

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2014) In the midst of our human civil war: Hamish Henderson’s war poetry and soldier’s songs. Studies in Scottish Literature, 40(1), pp. 146-166.

2013

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2013) The politics of the modern Scottish folk revival. In: Dunnigan, Sarah (ed.) The Edinburgh companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748645404

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2013) The Folkniks in the Kailyard: Hamish Henderson and the “Folk-song Flyting”. In: Bell, Eleanor and Gunn, Linda (eds.) The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 20. Brill / Rodopi: Amsterdam, pp. 209-225. ISBN 9789401209809

2011

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2011) Recoiling the springs of action: The uses of literacy and the conceptualisation of Scottish folk-song revivalism. In: Bailey, Michael and Eagleton, Mary (eds.) Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique. Series: 256. Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, pp. 167-180. ISBN 9781905510375

2010

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2010) Hamish Henderson: A Biography, Volume Two: Poetry Becomes People (1952-2002). By Timothy Neat. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2009. ISBN 978-1-846-97063-4. 396pp. hbk. £25. Scottish Literary Review, 2(2), pp. 220-222. [Book Review]

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2010) “Gramsci in action”: Antonio Gramsci and Hamish Henderson’s folk revivalism. In: Bort, Eberhard (ed.) Borne on the Carrying Stream: The Legacy of Hamish Henderson. Grace Note Publications: Ochtertyre, UK, pp. 239-256. ISBN 9781907676017

2009

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2009) Hamish Henderson: A Biography. Volume I: The Making of the Poet (1919-1953). By Timothy Neat. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2007. ISBN 978 1 84697 132 7. £14.99. Scottish Literary Review, 1(2), pp. 120-121. [Book Review]

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2009) “Tomorrow, songs / Will flow free again, and new voices / Be born on the carrying stream”: Hamish Henderson’s conception of the Scottish folk-song revival and its place in literary Scotland. Drouth(32), pp. 48-59.

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Articles

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2025) Cutting through the sound and fury of our schools' new set text lists. Herald, 10 Feb.

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2024) Proletarian nights in the Dear Green Place. Studies in Scottish Literature, (Accepted for Publication)

Young, Ronnie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1345-8187 and Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2023) ‘Not the date of the Battle of Flodden or the capital of Finland’: Scottish Literature and its curricula. Studies in Scottish Literature, (Accepted for Publication)

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2019) "The flowers of the forest are a' wede away": the dispersal of a familiar refrain. Scottish Literary Review, 11(1), pp. 103-124.

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2018) Extremism in Poiesis and Praxis: Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, and Barry Goldwater, Oxford 1964. Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, 3(1), (doi: 10.26597/mod.0041)

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2016) Flyting: 1964 and 2014. Journal of Scottish Thought, 8, pp. 102-116.

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2014) In the midst of our human civil war: Hamish Henderson’s war poetry and soldier’s songs. Studies in Scottish Literature, 40(1), pp. 146-166.

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2009) “Tomorrow, songs / Will flow free again, and new voices / Be born on the carrying stream”: Hamish Henderson’s conception of the Scottish folk-song revival and its place in literary Scotland. Drouth(32), pp. 48-59.

Books

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2015) The Voice of the People: Hamish Henderson and Scottish Cultural Politics. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748696574 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696574.001.0001)

Book Sections

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2025) Literatures and Politics of the Post-War Folk Revival. In: Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2024) Folkways. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) A Companion to Scottish Literature. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 246-258. ISBN 9781119651444 (doi: 10.1002/9781119651550.ch20)

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2017) Clannish confines: The folk, the proletariat, and the people in modern Scottish literature. In: Goodridge, John and Keegan, Bridget (eds.) A History Of British Working Class Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 367-384. ISBN 9781108105392 (doi: 10.1017/9781108105392.025)

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2016) Becoming anon: Hamish Henderson, community and the 'Folk Process'. In: Lyall, Scott (ed.) Community in Modern Scottish Literature. Brill, pp. 103-123. ISBN 9789004317444 (doi: 10.1163/9789004317451_007)

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2016) MacDiarmid, Hugh (1892–1978). In: Ross, Stephen (ed.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. (doi: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM1517-1)

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2013) The politics of the modern Scottish folk revival. In: Dunnigan, Sarah (ed.) The Edinburgh companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748645404

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2013) The Folkniks in the Kailyard: Hamish Henderson and the “Folk-song Flyting”. In: Bell, Eleanor and Gunn, Linda (eds.) The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 20. Brill / Rodopi: Amsterdam, pp. 209-225. ISBN 9789401209809

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2011) Recoiling the springs of action: The uses of literacy and the conceptualisation of Scottish folk-song revivalism. In: Bailey, Michael and Eagleton, Mary (eds.) Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique. Series: 256. Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, pp. 167-180. ISBN 9781905510375

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2010) “Gramsci in action”: Antonio Gramsci and Hamish Henderson’s folk revivalism. In: Bort, Eberhard (ed.) Borne on the Carrying Stream: The Legacy of Hamish Henderson. Grace Note Publications: Ochtertyre, UK, pp. 239-256. ISBN 9781907676017

Book Reviews

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2024) Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time ed. by James Purdon (review). Scottish Literary Review, 16(2), pp. 207-211. [Book Review]

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2018) ‘There’s A Witch In The Word Machine’ By Jenni Fagan. Bottle Imp(24), [Book Review]

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2016) Best Scottish Books of 2016: 'The Face on the Cutting Room Floor' by Cameron McCabe, Pan Macmillan, 2016. Bottle Imp(20), [Book Review]

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2010) Hamish Henderson: A Biography, Volume Two: Poetry Becomes People (1952-2002). By Timothy Neat. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2009. ISBN 978-1-846-97063-4. 396pp. hbk. £25. Scottish Literary Review, 2(2), pp. 220-222. [Book Review]

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2009) Hamish Henderson: A Biography. Volume I: The Making of the Poet (1919-1953). By Timothy Neat. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2007. ISBN 978 1 84697 132 7. £14.99. Scottish Literary Review, 1(2), pp. 120-121. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Henderson, Hamish (2019) Hamish Henderson: Collected Poems. Birlinn/Polygon: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781846974861

Research Reports or Papers

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 and Young, Ronnie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1345-8187 (2024) 'Foreword', SQA's Summary Report: Scottish Text refresh consultation, November 2024. Project Report. SQA.

Conference or Workshop Item

Anderson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-7413, Gair, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6302-3291 and Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2023) 2 Countries, 4 Nations, 50 States: Reflecting on Cross-Atlantic Parallels in Regional Politics, Culture, and Identity between the USA and the UK. Fulbright End-Cap Event: Reflecting on Cross-Atlantic Parallels in Regional Politics, Culture, and Identity between the USA and the UK, Glasgow, UK, 21-23 June 2023.

Website

Gibson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8500 (2017) Hamish Henderson and our Historical Moment. [Website]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 20:34:30 2025 BST.

Grants

  • Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant - 'Dreaming the Daily Darg: Working Lives in Scottish Fiction Since 1918' (2019-20)
  • Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship, Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture, University of Virginia (2017)
  • US-UK Fulbright Commission Scottish Studies Award. Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley (2013-14)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2012-13)

Supervision

Teaching

  • Scottish Literature Level One [Convenor]
    • Scottish Literature 1A: The Fantastic and the Real
    • Scottish Literature 1B: Stories We Tell Ourselves
  • Scottish Fiction under Late Capitalism (Hons) [Convenor]
  • Scottish Writers (Hons) [Convenor]
  • Contemporary Scottish Literature (Hons) [Contributing Lecturer]
  • Modern Scottish Poetry (Hons) [Contributing Lecturer]

Professional activities & recognition

Supplementary

  • 2018– Host and Scottish Studies Specialist on ‘New Books in British Studies’ podcast. Part of the New Books Network (http://newbooksnetwork.com).

Additional information

Membership of Professional Bodies:

  • Association for Scottish Literary Studies
  • International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
  • British Association for Modernist Studies
  • Centre for European Modernism Studies
  • Modern Languages Association
  • Northern Theory School
  • Scottish Network of Modernist Studies
  • US-UK Fulbright Visiting Scholar Alumni