Professor Liam McIlvanney

Stuart Chair of Scottish Studies and Associate Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies

Email: liam.mcilvanney@otago.ac.nz

Liam McIlvanney is the inaugural Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies. He holds degrees from the universities of Glasgow and Oxford and was previously Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. His monograph, Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland, won the Saltire First Book Award in 2002. He has published on various aspects of eighteenth-century Scottish literature, Ulster-Scots poetry, and contemporary Scottish fiction. He is co-editor of Ireland and Scotland: Culture and Society, 1700-2000 (Four Courts, 2005), The Good of the Novel (Faber, 2011), and the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature. He is currently researching Scottish allusions and affiliations in the work of the New Zealand poet James K. Baxter. A former General Editor of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, he serves on the advisory boards of Studies in Scottish Literature and the International Journal of Scottish Literature. His reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. His first novel, All the Colours of the Town, was published by Faber in 2009. For further information, see Professor McIlvanney’s profile on the English Department website.

Liam McIlvanney's English Department profile

Postgraduate Students

Jared Lesser, ‘Poetics of the Body in the Work of James Joyce’

Ailbhe McDaid, ‘“Home no longer matters”: The Migration Impulse in Irish Poetry Since 1970’

Lisa McGonigle, ‘The Depiction of Catholic Church “Scandals” in Irish Popular Culture’

Daniel Milosavljevic, ‘Piobaireachd in New Zealand: Past, Present, Future’

Josef Olson, ‘Reading and Writing the Past: Walter Scott’s Historical Fiction’