Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Timothy C. Baker is Personal Chair in Scottish and Contemporary Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of four monographs, most recently New Forms of Environmental Writing: Gleaning and Fragmentation (2022), as well as a memoir, Reading My Mother Back: A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories (2022).
In her 2023 philosophical memoir The Fear, Christiana Spens develops a nuanced account of the way fear shapes both individual and collective action. Fear, in Spens’s formulation, is the paralysing feeling that external reality is hostile to the self, leading both to despair and to, eventually, the development of the self. For those who have suffered […]
Ian Macpherson’s Wild Harbour might initially seem like an outlier in the world of apocalyptic narratives. First published in 1936, and telling the story of a war-torn Scotland in 1944, the novel depicts neither divine retribution nor material devastation. The environment is not poisoned, technology has not run rampant, and whatever hardships that the general […]