Dr Sophie Vlacos
- Lecturer in English Literature Post 1900 (English Literature)
telephone:
0141 330 5148
email:
Sophie.Vlacos@glasgow.ac.uk
English Literature, Room 311, 5 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QH
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4340-5716Research interests
Research Interests: contemporary literature, Modernism, Continental philosophy, hermeneutics and contemporary critical theory.
Biography: I have a PhD in philosophy from Cardiff University (2011) and joined the School of Critical Studies at Glasgow in 2012. I have taught on a variety of (largely post-1900) courses within English Literature and supervise doctoral theses on a range of contemporary authors and theorists. In 2014 I published a monograph, Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination, with Bloomsbury, about Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy of language and the history of modern literary theory. Parts of this work have been translated into Polish and Italian. I convene the undergraduate courses ‘Writing and Ideology’ and ‘Literary Theory’ and run a research-led postgraduate course on contemporary theory and fiction, entitled ‘Contemporary Realisms’. I also head-up the staff research cluster in Critical Theory.
Recent research activities include the ‘Theory Now’ conference, which I hosted in Glasgow March 2019 and an article for the American studies journal Symbiosis, entitled ‘Freedom and mauvais foi in Eliot and Franzen’ (Fall, 2018).
Grants
Grants: Carnegie Research Incentive Grant, ‘Gesture in German Expressionism’, £1,197, 2015.
Supervision
Supervision: I am interested in supervising theses in many aspects of literary studies from the late 19th century onwards and particularly welcome projects with a strong philosophical or theoretical basis.
I currently supervise doctoral theses in the following areas:
Post-Arab Spring literature
W.B Sebald and the model
Theory-fiction and speculative realism
Contemporary literary depictions of Ottoman women
Geocritical readings of migrant fiction
- Blackburn, Rhobet
How can the concept of oscillation inform practical and theoretical explorations of posthuman philosophy after Adorno and Horkheimer? - Franks, Nadia Terese Laguna
What is Post-Truth Literature? Navigating Western Disaster.. - Sigalov, Nadine
The Neuroplastic Aspects of the Literary Phenomena of Blending
Teaching
Teaching:
Postgraduate
Contemporary Realisms, MLitt course option (convenor)
Core contributions to the MLitt Modernities pathway
Dissertation supervision for Modernities pathway
Honours
Literary Theory (convenor)
Modern Literature 1890-1945
Modern Literature 1945-present day
Dissertation supervision
Pre-Honours
2A Writing and Ideology (convenor)
