International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
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The recordings of CIVIS seminars on contemporary Scottish Literature, organised by Marie Hedon, Corey Gibson, and Kirsten Stirling, are now available as a recordings: 'Poetry and Public Life in Scotland'; 'Poor Things Revisited'; 'IndyRef and Scottish Literature'. lerma.univ-amu.fr/contemporary...
January 6, 2026 at 11:34 AM
The recordings of CIVIS seminars on contemporary Scottish Literature, organised by Marie Hedon, Corey Gibson, and Kirsten Stirling, are now available as a recordings: 'Poetry and Public Life in Scotland'; 'Poor Things Revisited'; 'IndyRef and Scottish Literature'. lerma.univ-amu.fr/contemporary...
The Carrying Stream is a new podcast for Scottish words and ideas, hosted by IASSL EC member Paul Malgrati. The first episode, now available on Spotify and Apple Podcast, features poet and Gaelic translator Taylor Strickland; Scots writer and activist Billy Kay; and Burns scholar Moira Hansen.
The Carrying Stream is a new podcast for Scottish words and ideas – long-form conversations with writers, scholars, poets and artists. 🎙️🏴
Episode 0 is now live, alongside the first three full conversations.
pod.link/1865430519
Episode 0 is now live, alongside the first three full conversations.
pod.link/1865430519
January 4, 2026 at 1:11 PM
The Carrying Stream is a new podcast for Scottish words and ideas, hosted by IASSL EC member Paul Malgrati. The first episode, now available on Spotify and Apple Podcast, features poet and Gaelic translator Taylor Strickland; Scots writer and activist Billy Kay; and Burns scholar Moira Hansen.
The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research concerning John Galt. Two types of research projects—archival and digital—are eligible. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2026.
Research Grant
John Galt Society Research Grant The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defrayexpenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of…
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January 2, 2026 at 10:52 AM
The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research concerning John Galt. Two types of research projects—archival and digital—are eligible. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2026.
New publications by our members: Fiona J Mackenzie's biography 'The Cadence of a Song: The Life of Margaret Fay Shaw' (Birlinn, 2025) explores the legacy and life of the American born folklorist, musician, and photographer who played a major part in preserving Hebridean music and traditions.
The Cadence of a Song | Birlinn Ltd - Independent Scottish Publisher - buy books online
The first biography of one of the twentieth century’s foremost champions of Hebridean culture. The American-born folklorist and musician Margaret Fay Shaw’s passion for the Hebrides led her to the isl...
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December 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
New publications by our members: Fiona J Mackenzie's biography 'The Cadence of a Song: The Life of Margaret Fay Shaw' (Birlinn, 2025) explores the legacy and life of the American born folklorist, musician, and photographer who played a major part in preserving Hebridean music and traditions.
The Scottish Catholic Studies ArtsLab (SCAL) was recently launched at @glasgow.ac.uk, with the aim to explore the contribution of Catholics and Catholicism to Scottish cultural and intellectual life. One of the directors of the Lab is IASSL member Craig Lamont. Find out more: tinyurl.com/3uwj3uhj
December 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The Scottish Catholic Studies ArtsLab (SCAL) was recently launched at @glasgow.ac.uk, with the aim to explore the contribution of Catholics and Catholicism to Scottish cultural and intellectual life. One of the directors of the Lab is IASSL member Craig Lamont. Find out more: tinyurl.com/3uwj3uhj
Season's Greetings from the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures ❄️ Beannachdan na Ràithe bho Chomann Eadar-Nàiseanta airson Sgrùdadh Litreachas na h-Alba ✨
William Crozier: 'Edinburgh in Snow' (about 1928), National Galleries of Scotland, tinyurl.com/mryzywuk
William Crozier: 'Edinburgh in Snow' (about 1928), National Galleries of Scotland, tinyurl.com/mryzywuk
December 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Season's Greetings from the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures ❄️ Beannachdan na Ràithe bho Chomann Eadar-Nàiseanta airson Sgrùdadh Litreachas na h-Alba ✨
William Crozier: 'Edinburgh in Snow' (about 1928), National Galleries of Scotland, tinyurl.com/mryzywuk
William Crozier: 'Edinburgh in Snow' (about 1928), National Galleries of Scotland, tinyurl.com/mryzywuk
The latest issue of the IASSL newsletter has been dispatched to all members and is also available online: have a read for updates about awards, publications, grants, events, calls for papers, and more. 📩 📫 tinyurl.com/tvf3rna4
December 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The latest issue of the IASSL newsletter has been dispatched to all members and is also available online: have a read for updates about awards, publications, grants, events, calls for papers, and more. 📩 📫 tinyurl.com/tvf3rna4
New survey by the @glasgowburns.bsky.social - how do you celebrate Burns Night? Feel free to respond and share!
We’re delighted to officially launch our global survey for ‘The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’! 🏴 🌍
Please share far and wide - we can’t wait to hear and see what you’re eating, drinking, singing, dancing, wearing, and reciting!
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Please share far and wide - we can’t wait to hear and see what you’re eating, drinking, singing, dancing, wearing, and reciting!
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December 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
New survey by the @glasgowburns.bsky.social - how do you celebrate Burns Night? Feel free to respond and share!
The recording of the IASSL webinar 'Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100', with talks by Mhairi Brennan (Aston University), Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh), and Petra Johana Poncarová (Charles University, Prague), is now available on YouTube.
Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100
YouTube video by IASSL
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December 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The recording of the IASSL webinar 'Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100', with talks by Mhairi Brennan (Aston University), Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh), and Petra Johana Poncarová (Charles University, Prague), is now available on YouTube.
New publications by our members: John Galt's 'Transatlantic Tales and Essays', edited by Angela Esterhammer, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social. The first complete scholarly edition of Galt’s short fiction and essays on transatlantic themes, including previously unpublished texts.
Transatlantic Tales and Essays
Transatlantic Tales and Essays
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December 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New publications by our members: John Galt's 'Transatlantic Tales and Essays', edited by Angela Esterhammer, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social. The first complete scholarly edition of Galt’s short fiction and essays on transatlantic themes, including previously unpublished texts.
Great news from colleagues at the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature: the newly launched Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is going to be awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies.
Nominations are open for the 2026 prize. 🏆📚
Nominations are open for the 2026 prize. 🏆📚
Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize
The Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. Founded in 2025, the prize is open to book-length wor…
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December 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Great news from colleagues at the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature: the newly launched Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is going to be awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies.
Nominations are open for the 2026 prize. 🏆📚
Nominations are open for the 2026 prize. 🏆📚
Recent publications by our members: Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir @haskoliislands.bsky.social, '"She Strode into the Room like a Challenge": Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Arctic Exploration in Stef Penney’s Under a Pole Star (2016),' Études Écossaises 24 (2025). Available in open access.
“She Strode into the Room like a Challenge”: Revisioning Nineteenth...
Introduction Arctic exploration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was widely regarded as a particularly manly pursuit and has been predominantly narrated as the efforts of white Europ...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Recent publications by our members: Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir @haskoliislands.bsky.social, '"She Strode into the Room like a Challenge": Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Arctic Exploration in Stef Penney’s Under a Pole Star (2016),' Études Écossaises 24 (2025). Available in open access.
Tickets are now available for the annual conference of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, to be held on 17 January 2026. The programme features contributions by IASSL members Pauline Mackay, Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman, Paul Malgrati, Struan McCorriscken, and John Watson.
Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
A conference exploring the life, work, and legacy of Robert Burns, this year celebrating the 225th anniversary of the Burns Supper
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November 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Tickets are now available for the annual conference of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, to be held on 17 January 2026. The programme features contributions by IASSL members Pauline Mackay, Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman, Paul Malgrati, Struan McCorriscken, and John Watson.
Warm congratulations to IASSL member @drleith.bsky.social (Simon Fraser University Research Centre for Scottish Studies) on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society.
Leith Davis receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Professor Leith Davis has been recognized with a prestigious award for her outstanding contributions to 18th-century Scottish Studies over the course of her career.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Warm congratulations to IASSL member @drleith.bsky.social (Simon Fraser University Research Centre for Scottish Studies) on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society.
New interview in our series: IASSL convenor Marie Hedon chats with Bill Malcolm, Joint Administrator of the Mitchell Literary Estate and author of the 'History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (2025), shortlisted for the Saltire Best Research Book of the Year.
10 Minutes with... Dr William Malcolm (Mitchell Literary Estate)
YouTube video by IASSL
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November 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
New interview in our series: IASSL convenor Marie Hedon chats with Bill Malcolm, Joint Administrator of the Mitchell Literary Estate and author of the 'History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (2025), shortlisted for the Saltire Best Research Book of the Year.
Tonight (Tue 25 November) at 7 pm UK time: 'Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100', an online seminar exploring Macdonald's legacy as a filmmaker, writer, journalist, editor, and a leading figure in Gaelic initiatives. Bidh fàilte bhlàth romhaibh uile / All welcome!
Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100
Tuesday 25 November 2025, 7 pm UK time, ZOOM. This year marks the centenary of the birth of Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill | Finlay J. Macdonald (1925–1987). The webinar explores his rich legacy as a…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Tonight (Tue 25 November) at 7 pm UK time: 'Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100', an online seminar exploring Macdonald's legacy as a filmmaker, writer, journalist, editor, and a leading figure in Gaelic initiatives. Bidh fàilte bhlàth romhaibh uile / All welcome!
Congratulations to Dr Suping Li, winner of the 2025 Ross Roy Prize, for her dissertation ‘”If I have wander’d in those paths”: The reception of Robert Burns in China’, defended at @uofglasgow.bsky.social. It examines the full spectrum of Burns’ Chinese reception in translation, criticism and music.
Ross Roy Prize – 2025 Winner Announced
The Ross Roy Prize is awarded annually to the best PhD thesis submitted on a subject relating to Scottish literature. Judged by a panel of expert scholars, the Prize commemorates the outstanding co…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Congratulations to Dr Suping Li, winner of the 2025 Ross Roy Prize, for her dissertation ‘”If I have wander’d in those paths”: The reception of Robert Burns in China’, defended at @uofglasgow.bsky.social. It examines the full spectrum of Burns’ Chinese reception in translation, criticism and music.
12 days left to submit/nominate articles and chapters to the 2025 Jack Medal! The call closes on 30 November. The prize is awarded for new research on subjects related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic, and Latin). scotlit-iassl.org/awards/the-j...
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
12 days left to submit/nominate articles and chapters to the 2025 Jack Medal! The call closes on 30 November. The prize is awarded for new research on subjects related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic, and Latin). scotlit-iassl.org/awards/the-j...
Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027, Nanjing Normal University, China). Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2026.
Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027)
The Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027. Being China’s first city designated as a “UNESCO City of Literature…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027, Nanjing Normal University, China). Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2026.
Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
The Great North Road: a manuscript that R. L. Stevenson left unfinished has been completed by the novelist Stuart Campbell and will be published by Rymour Books on 13 November. Events in Blackwell’s bookshop, Edinburgh (7pm, 12 November) and Hillhead Public Library, Glasgow (2pm, 22 November).
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Great North Road: a manuscript that R. L. Stevenson left unfinished has been completed by the novelist Stuart Campbell and will be published by Rymour Books on 13 November. Events in Blackwell’s bookshop, Edinburgh (7pm, 12 November) and Hillhead Public Library, Glasgow (2pm, 22 November).
Next IASSL webinar: 'Finlay J Macdonald at 100', 25 November 2025, 7 pm UK time. The webinar explores Macdonald's legacy as a filmmaker, producer, writer, and journalist. Talks by Mhairi Brennan, Rob Dunbar, @macailpein.bsky.social, and @poncarova.bsky.social. Bidh fàilte bhlàth romhaibh uile!
Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100
Tuesday 25 November 2025, 7 pm UK time, ZOOM. This year marks the centenary of the birth of Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill | Finlay J. Macdonald (1925–1987). The webinar explores his rich legacy as a…
scotlit-iassl.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Next IASSL webinar: 'Finlay J Macdonald at 100', 25 November 2025, 7 pm UK time. The webinar explores Macdonald's legacy as a filmmaker, producer, writer, and journalist. Talks by Mhairi Brennan, Rob Dunbar, @macailpein.bsky.social, and @poncarova.bsky.social. Bidh fàilte bhlàth romhaibh uile!
Call for Papers: ‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing. The 2026 annual conference of the Association for Scottish Literature will be held at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on 26–28 June.
2026 ASL Annual Conference - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing
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October 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Call for Papers: ‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing. The 2026 annual conference of the Association for Scottish Literature will be held at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on 26–28 June.
A new addition to the video interview series '10 Minutes With' that introduce our members: this time, IASSL convenor Marie Hedon chats to Peter Mackay, Senior Lecturer at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social and Scottish Makar.
10 Minutes With... Peter Mackay (University of St Andrews)
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October 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A new addition to the video interview series '10 Minutes With' that introduce our members: this time, IASSL convenor Marie Hedon chats to Peter Mackay, Senior Lecturer at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social and Scottish Makar.
The new issue of Studies in Scottish Literature, 'Dreaming the Daily Darg', is now available. Edited by IASSL executive committee member Corey Gibson, the issue includes essays by other IASSL members, Marie Hedon, Arianna Introna and Joe Jackson. scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/ scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/
October 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The new issue of Studies in Scottish Literature, 'Dreaming the Daily Darg', is now available. Edited by IASSL executive committee member Corey Gibson, the issue includes essays by other IASSL members, Marie Hedon, Arianna Introna and Joe Jackson. scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/ scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/