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The Institute for Advanced Studies
in the Humanities
Fellows in Residence Autumn 2007
The Institute welcomes Fellows
from around the world who come to
work here on their own projects and
to meet and exchange ideas with
colleagues in Edinburgh. In most
cases they also contribute during
their stay to one or more of the
workshops associated with the
Institute’s three current research
themes (Institutions and Oppositions
of Enlightenment; Life Writing,
Testimony and Self-Construction;
and The Humanities in the TwentyFirst Century University). Further
details of the themes can be found at
http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/themes.html
We try to put Fellows in touch with
members of staff with whom they
may share research interests but we
cannot fully encompass the diversity
of the research interests around the
College, so we hope this brief
introduction to the Fellows who will
be working at the Institute in the
Autumn Semester may be of
interest. Please do get in touch
either via the Institute or direct with
the individual Fellows at any point.
Will Christie (University of Sydney)
The Political Career and Writings of
Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850)
This critical study will be the first in
155 years to respect the extent and
variety of Jeffrey's intellectual and
professional achievements, and has a
particular interest in social and cultural
relations between Scotland and England.
Julie Hirst (Open University) The
Spiritual Diary of Anne Bathurst
This unpublished 17th century work
describes a visionary’s account of real
and imaginary life, including her
familial relationships, a complex web of
philosophical and psychological ideas and
millenarian expectations .
Sally Hobson (Edinburgh International
Festival) The outreach and educational
work of the Edinburgh International
Festival
Research to develop further the
philosophy and approach behind the
outreach and educational work undertaken
by the Edinburgh International Festival,
and explore this potential for the people
of Scotland in future years.
Zoltán
Imre
(Eötvös
Loránd
University, Budapest) Staging Scotland
in the (National) Theatre
Part of a larger project investigating
changes in the notion of a ‘national
theatre’, this research looks at the Scottish
National Theatre, situating it in the
political, economic and cultural context of
Scotland, and concepts of Scottish
national identity.
Tilar Mazzeo (Colby College, Maine)
Fashion, Self-Representation, and Whig
National Culture
A transatlantic inquiry into the
construction of personal identity in the
Romantic period.
Roxana
Preda
(University
of
Edinburgh) American Gothic Fiction in
the 20th Century
This project follows the development of
the literary gothic tradition in the United
States in the 20th century, by examining
the intersections of the genre with
intellectual trends during that period.
Gerold Sedlmayr (University of Passau)
The Interrelation of Madness and Gender
during the Romantic Age.
Particularly concerned with William
Blake's 'prophetic' writings on the
Everyman Albion, especially the epic
Jerusalem, this research draws attention to
the way Blake metaphorises and genders
medical knowledge, in combination with
a mythopoetic conception of humanity
limited by the coercive power of
institutions.
Iva Smidova (Masaryk University,
Brno) Autobiographical Interviews as
Analytical Sources
A critical review that aims to enrich
sociological approaches to the study of
the gendered structure of society based on
autobiographical interviews.
Katherine Terrell (Hamilton College,
New York) Scripting the Medieval
Scottish Nation: Poets, Chroniclers, and
the Authority of History.
This project seeks to show that Scottish
chronicle histories of the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries and the poetry of James
IV’s court both turn to an imagined
ancestral past in order to authorize
nationalist projects.
Evelyn Tribble (University of Otago)
Chains of Memory: Distributed Cognition
in Early Modern England
This project yokes recent research in
philosophy and cognitive science with
literary and cultural history to explore
what it meant to remember in early
modern England. Models of “distributed
cognition” are used to explain the massive
changes in theatrical, educational, and
religious "remembrance environments,"
from about 1500 to1650.
Aishih Wehbe (University of La
Laguna, Tenerife) Masculinity in
Chicano Studies
A transnational enquiry into nodes of
connection between Chicano and Scottish
men.
Karina Williamson (University of
Edinburgh) Colonial and Postcolonial
Caribbean History and Writing
An inquiry into representations of West
Indian slave society by Scottish residents
in the Caribbean.
Daniel Woolf (University of Alberta)
Historiography/History of the Book
Reflections on 18th century
historiography and
female readers
of history in
the period.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
We have space for six
Postdoctoral fellows at any one
time. The current fellows are:
Dorothy Alexander The Border
Ballad into the twenty-first
Century: applying experimental
poetics to Borders Scots
Taking the themes of Scott’s
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
as a starting point, the project
aims to effect a re-viewing of the
ballad by bringing contemporary
narratives in Borders Scots into
juxtaposition
with
poetical
practice after Modernism.
Tim Baker The reception of
German Idealism and Early
Romanticism in 19th-century
Scottish fiction.
A particular focus on the relation
between Novalis and George
MacDonald, and on the popular
and critical reception of these
works.
Kristin Cook
Presenting a
‘True
Figure’:
Jefferson,
Theatre, and Diplomacy, 17161826
This study investigates Theatre
and Diplomacy in the Early
American Republic, focusing on
Jefferson's
relationship
to
colonial Virginian performance
and his later role as minister
plenipotentiary to France (17891789).
Abbie Garrington Touching
Texts: The Haptic Sense in Woolf
and Richardson
An investigation into the
cinematic qualities of the literary
style of these two writers in the
context of the haptic.
Tom Toremans Late-Romantic
opposition to the Scottish
Enlightenment
Close analysis of Thomas
Carlyle's relation to 18th-century
Scottish thought, in particular the
Philosophy of Common Sense,
focusing on rhetorical strategies
and aesthetic theories
Suzanne Owen Self-Disclosure in
the Study of Indigenous Religions
An investigation into the content
and objectives of self-disclosure in
the study of indigenous religions
and how the indigenous author
constructs him- or herself in the
autobiographical details included
in academic works, as well as the
formulation of reflexivity in
research undertaken by nonindigenous scholars who study
indigenous peoples and cultures.
A full list of our workshops and
seminars appears on both the website
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/index.html
and in paper form.
The Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities,
The University of Edinburgh,
Hope Park Square,
Edinburgh EH8 9NW
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4671
IASH SEMINARS
Fax: +44 (0)131 668 2252
The Institute organises a full
programme of events and seminars
during the semester. These include
email: [email protected]
Enlightenment Workshops
and Life Writing Workshops
Fellows may be contacted at
the above address. More
details and individual email
addresses are available at:
on alternate Tuesdays at 4pm.
IASH Work in progress
seminars
Wednesdays at 1pm
STAR
(Scotland’s
Transatlantic Relations)
Seminars
Mondays at 4pm
(Further information about the STAR
project can be found on the project
website: http://www.star.ac.uk)
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/people.html