About

Research interests in modern Scottish literature and cultural politics; contemporary fiction; Anglophone vernacular writing; modernism and critical theory.

Articles on James Kelman (and masculinity, existentialism, canonicity, art-speech), Alistair MacLeod, William McIlvanney, Alice Munro, Andrew O’Hagan, Don Paterson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh, Scottish novels of education, vernacular fetishism, devolution, ‘theory’ and cultural nationalism. Work in progress on the culturalist narrative of Scottish devolution, and the politics of ‘voice’. [http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol39/iss1/16/]

Editor of Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman and Unstated: Writers on Scottish Independence. [http://www.word-power.co.uk/books/unstated-I9780956628398/]

Co-editor of the International Journal of Scottish Literature.