Looking at the different modes of life-writing concerning historic and contemporary experiences of care in Scotland, the project brings Jessie Kesson and Dorothy K. Haynes into focus with more recent works by Jackie Kay and Jenni Fagan.
New projects of IASSL members: Craig Lamont @glasgow.ac.uk has been awarded an AHRC Curiosity Award for his project on memory and care experience in Scottish life-writing. The project is supported by partners across Scotland: @aberlourcharity.bsky.social, @celcis.org, @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social.
The conference โFlux and Flow in Irish and Scottish Literaturesโ, organised by @juliegay.bsky.social & Lea Sinoimeri, will take place on 9-10 April in Boulogne-sur-Mer, with keynotes by @monikaszuba.bsky.social, Tim Brannigan, and Ian Stephen. ๐ซ๐ท ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ฎ๐ช Full programme: fluxandflow.univ-littoral.fr
@glendanorquay.bsky.social offers a fresh portrait of RLS: frail Edinburgh child turned globe-trotting author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and charts his literary range โ from fiction and poetry to essays and letters โ crafted across three continents.
New publications by IASSL members: Glenda Norquay has published a biography of Stevenson with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. The book explores his role as a literary innovator and cultural commentator, revealing how his work engaged with the anxieties of a rapidly changing world. tinyurl.com/4s93px3a
New projects of IASSL members: @eleanorbell.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social has secured an AHRC Catalyst grant. The project โBeyond The Dear Green Place: Recovering the Lost Works and Literary Networks of Archie Hindโ will run in 2026-28. Congratulations! Read more: tinyurl.com/2yns355a
Sarah Sharp @abdnriiss.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social received the Honourable Mention for the article โThe Settler Colonial Cotter: Situating โThe Cotterโs Saturday Nightโ in Post-Revolutionary America,โ published in the Burns Chronicle @edinburghup.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/255n2rm6
Kang-Yen Chiu received the 2025 Jack Medal for his chapter 'Translation and Film Adaptation of Ivanhoe in the Modern History of Taiwan,โ published in 'Scotland and China: Literary Encounters' (@scroll-scotlit.bsky.social, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2025). Read the statement: tinyurl.com/255n2rm6
Kang-yen Chiu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) is the recipient of the 2025 Jack Medal. Sarah Sharp (@abdnriiss.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social) was awarded the Honourable Mention. Congratulations! ๐ต๏ธ Find out more about the awardees: tinyurl.com/255n2rm6
New publications by IASSL members: 'Eagle and Lion: Polish Poems and Scots Translations,' edited and translated by Derrick McClure, with Tom Hubbard as consulting editor, is now available from Grace Note Publications. ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ www.gracenotepublications.com/catalogue
The CIVIS Scottish literature webinar on the 'Outreach of Scottish Literature' will be held on 12 March 2026, 5โ6pm GMT.
๐ John Corbett: As Others See Us: Scottish Literature in and out of Translation
๐ Paul Barnaby: The Birth of BOSLIT: Setting up a Database of Scottish Literature in Translation
Awards for IASSL members: @murrayp.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk) has been awarded the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgowโs Glasgow Medal and the honorary degree of D.Litt. from @robertgordonuni.bsky.social in Aberdeen.
Photo: Prof. Pat Monaghan presents the Glasgow Medal
The Scottish Literature volume of the online Literary Encyclopedia seeks entries (1500-2500 w) on works, authors, and topics not featured in the database. If interested, please contact: pre-1945 ScotLit: Arianna Introna, Arianna.introna@open.ac.uk; post-1945 ScotLit, Gina Lyle gina.lyle@york.ac.uk.
The 'Reading Scotland' series by Scotland Hub @unimainz.bsky.social has featured many IASSL members. Talks by @annafancett.bsky.social, @paulmalgrati.bsky.social, @leoniejungen.bsky.social, @drcleoocy.bsky.social, @ainsley76.bsky.social and other scholars are available on the RS YouTube channel. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ฉ๐ช
IASSL member Domenico Di Rosa @glasgow.ac.uk is going to take part in the panel 'The Caledonian Trans Reveal' at the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social, 4 March, 5:30 pm, in person & streamed. tinyurl.com/ycydpfvy
The @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @abdnriiss.bsky.social Spring Seminar Series begins this week. Members of the public and students and scholars from other institutions worldwide are welcome to attend. Please contact Michael Brown (m.brown@abdn.ac.uk) to request the link and join online.
The lastest episode of the podcast @thecarryingstream.bsky.social features two IASSL members: @paulmalgrati.bsky.social as the host and Kirsteen McCue as the guest, discussing Scottish folk song and European music: pod.link/1865430519
New publications by our members: "The Page as Gendered Cultural Recess: Female Creative Anxieties in Margaret Oliphantโs 'The Library Window' (1896)" by @leoniejungen.bsky.social has appeared in "Writing Angst". Available in open access: tinyurl.com/mrmwwpwe
New publications by our members: Lejla Mulaliฤ has co-authored the volume 'A Country of Their Own: Writing Scotland as a Woman' (University of Sarajevo Press), which discusses Rona Munro, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, Agnes Owens, and Kathleen Jamie. ๐ Read in open access: tinyurl.com/4v2knp4y
Dear Doug, this is not an IASSL conference - we are merely circulating the call on behalf of the organisers. If you would like to send the suggestion to them, their addresses are included in the CfP.
CfP: 'Scotland and the In-Between,' the annual conference of the French Society for Scottish Studies, will be held at Universitรฉ de de Lorraine, Nancy, 12-14 November 2026, co-organised by IASSL member Cรฉline Sabiron. Papers may be delivered in French or English. Full CfP: tinyurl.com/5h8v293z
CfP: 2026 Postgraduate Symposium of the @studyscotlit.bsky.social, @glasgow.ac.uk, 8 May 2026. Submissions deadline: 15 March 2026. Hybrid attendance will be an option; PG travel bursaries will be available, courtesy of the Andrew Tannahill Fund. ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...
New publications by our members: Maike Dinger's monograph 'Discourse, Voice, and the Politics of Participation in the Scottish Independence Referendum' has been published by @springernature.com. One chapter is dedicated to Scottish indyref literature. tinyurl.com/358bk4hx
Call for Papers: Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies Postgraduate Symposium, 28 May 2026, @glasgow.ac.uk & online, 'People, Place and Movement'. Abstracts and enquiries: arts-cscs@glasgow.ac.uk, deadline: 2 March 2026. Proposals are welcome from postgraduates at any stage of their career.
Save the date for the next International Walter Scott Conference: 28-30 June 2027, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Keynotes by Philip Connell and Porscha Fermanis & a special session marking the anniversary of Ian Duncanโs 'Scottโs Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh' @princetonupress.bsky.social.
New publications by our members: Cรฉline Sabiron's monograph 'Unveiling Lady Scott: Walter Scott, French Influence and Transcultural Connections' was recently published by @universitypress.cambridge.org.
New publications by our members: Carla Sassi's article 'Merciful Solidarity Across Space and Time: Affective Communities in Contemporary Scottish Fiction' (2014โ2024) was published in 'English Studies' (2025). tinyurl.com/2ph5fsdj
Jetstone Books expand the portfolio of Scottish titles, producing new editions of works by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and John MacDougall Hay. William Malcolmโs Grassic Gibbon biography 'History of a Revoluter', also by Jetstone, was shortlisted for Saltire Research Book of the Year. tinyurl.com/ykvmssbm
New publications by our members: 'Setting the Stage: New Wave Scottish Drama from the 1970s and 1980s' (ASL, 2025), edited by Steven Cramer and John Corbett. The volume includes plays by Peter Arnott, Ian Brown, Jo Clifford, Sue Glover, and Rona Munro.
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...
