The new SCROLL volume features essays by IASSL members Alan Riach, Antoine Rumelhart, @crfirvine.bsky.social, @paulmalgrati.bsky.social, @dashflint.bsky.social, @scottlyall.bsky.social, @monikaszuba.bsky.social, Peter Mackay, @poncarova.bsky.social, Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir, and Daisy Li.

SCROLL | Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature@scroll-scotlit.bsky.social · 22h ago

New publication in the SCROLL series! The collective monograph 'Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions and Revisions', edited by Camille Manfredi, Fiona Paterson, and Philippe Laplace, is now available as an e-book from @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. brill.com/display/titl...

New publications by our members: the volume 'David Rizzio at the Scottish Court: History and Myth across Arts and Media' @edinburghup.bsky.social features chapters by Carla Sassi and @domenicodr.bsky.social on portrayals of Rizzio as ‘Other’ in literature, cinema, and theatre. tinyurl.com/4z6wyum2

The new episode of @thecarryingstream.bsky.social podcast, hosted by our EC member @paulmalgrati.bsky.social, focuses on the poetry of Dundee and features Taylor Dyson and Erin Farley.

The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 2w ago

New Episode Out! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏭🖋️ pod.link/1865430519

To mark the centenary of MacDiarmid’s 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926), IASSL members James Robertson, Alan Riach and Jim Mackintosh have edited the volume 'Ayont the Thistle,' with more than 70 responses to the poem. Join them on 13 September 2026, at the @royalsoced.bsky.social or online.

100 years on: Is ‘A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle’ still relevant today?

An evening exploring one of Scotland’s most celebrated poems by Hugh MacDiarmid.

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PhD opportunity: a part-time (0.5) position under the supervision of Silke Stroh at the Institute of English and American Studies, Universität Koblenz. Fixed-term appointment for 3 years, Scottish Studies topics most welcome! Excellent English and German required. Apply by 15 September 2026. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪

The latest issue of the Scottish Literary Review @asls.org.uk has been published! Edited by @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @scottlyall.bsky.social, it also features three essays by our members: @ainsley76.bsky.social on Stevenson; Rob Sutton on Anne Grant; and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social on Fergusson.

New publications by our members: the essay 'Sunset Song as Autofiction' by William K. Malcolm has been published in the latest issue of The Bottle Imp @asls.org.uk.

Sunset Song as Autofiction - The Bottle Imp

The work of James Leslie Mitchell, better known of course by his famous pen-name of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, has been a consuming passion in my extensive academic life; in the course of forty years of de...

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IASSL welcomes new members from all around the world. If you research Scottish literature in any language (English, Gaelic, Latin, Scots), whether at a university, as an independent scholar, or as a PhD student, we'd love to have you on board! scotlit-iassl.org/membership/ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌐

New publications by our members: the essay 'Scottish Travellers, National Character, and Cross-border Storytelling' by Angela Esterhammer has been published in the latest issue of @litterariaprag.bsky.social. The essay is available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2026-71-3/

The IASSL PhD Award is aimed at outstanding PhD dissertations on Scottish literature submitted outside of the UK (written in English or other languages). The first round is open for submissions! 🏆🎓 scotlit-iassl.org/awards/iassl...

New publications by our members: the article 'Patrick Geddes’s Influence on France and Beyond' by Murdo Macdonald has appeared in the latest issue of 'Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens: on 'Inspirations et modèles écossais'. 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Available in open access: journals.openedition.org/cve/18477 🔓

New projects by our members: @profdanielcook.bsky.social has launched the website 'Mary Shelley's Dundee' maryshelley.co.uk, an open access learning resource that highlights Shelley's formative connections with Scotland.

Daniel Cook@profdanielcook.bsky.social · last mo.

Mary Shelley's Dundee (www.maryshelley.co.uk) histories, biographies, an interactive map, the "Dundee Edition" of Frankenstein, comics, annual writing prizes, resources and more (with teaching guides and materials, and SO MUCH more, to come) - FREE

New publications by our members: in the latest issue of 'The Bottle Imp' @asls.org.uk, David Manderson discusses twentieth-century urban Scottish literature, focusing on Alan Sharp, who, born in Perthshire and adopted by a Greenock shipyard family, wrote extensively about his industrial background.

Twentieth-Century Urban Scottish Literature - The Bottle Imp

Discussions of urban Scottish writing tend, more often than not, to centre on narratives set in Glasgow. This is hardly surprising, since much Scottish fiction from the 1930s onward sprang from the sa...

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The new Interactive Map of Burns Suppers Worldwide by @glasgowburns.bsky.social is going to be launched soon, in person at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway and online. ⬇️

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We’re excited to announce that the official launch of the new Interactive Map of Burns Suppers Worldwide will take place on Saturday 18th July at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in collaboration with the National Trust for Scotland - book your tickets below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-burns-...

The call for papers for the 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures is open until 30 November 2026. The congress will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027. The main theme of this congress is 'Scotland Along the New Silk Road'.

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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New publications by our members: the article 'Scottish Food Patriotism and the Literary Antecedents of Robert Burns's "To a Haggis"' by Gerry Carruthers and @paulmalgrati.bsky.social has been published in the IRSS @uguelphscottish.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social. Available in open access!

Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies@uguelphscottish.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣New issue of the IRSS now online! euppublishing.com/toc/irss/51/1 Featured Article is FREE to access: Scottish Food Patriotism and the Literary Antecedents of Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’ by Gerard Carruthers and Paul Malgrati. Full issue 30 Days FREE (CODE: 30IRSS) @edinburghup.bsky.social

Call for participants: 'National Theatre of Scotland at 20: Culture, Democracy, and the Stateless Nation', organised by our member Paula Śledzińska @iashedinburgh.bsky.social. Scottish Storytelling Centre @scotstorycentre.bsky.social, 23 October 2026. Application form: tinyurl.com/yc6s7cvs

National Theatre of Scotland@ntsonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Callout for participants 📢 National Theatre of Scotland at 20: Culture, Democracy, and the Stateless Nation is a day of conversations on how the arts shape Scotland’s society and democratic life, hosted at @scotstorycentre.bsky.social on 23 Oct

Newly finished PhDs: @mathieubokestael.bsky.social has defended his dissertation, ‘Reading Immunofiction: The Immunitary Unconscious in Contemporary Scottish Writing (1981-2023)’ at @ucddublin.bsky.social. The viva was passed with no corrections. tinyurl.com/yu82cy9p Congratulations!

New publications by our members: the latest issue of 'Studies in Hogg & His World' 33-34 (2024-25), edited by Holly Faith Nelson. Available from the James Hogg Society. tinyurl.com/yeybzf2j Holly Faith Nelson & Sharon Alker on Hogg, ecology, and class; Patrick Scott on Hogg and Francis Jeffrey.

Achievements of our members: Caroline McCracken-Flesher (U of Wyoming) has been named the recipient of the 2026 National Tartan Day Award by the Scottish Coalition USA, for 'her unwavering leadership support and passion for Scottish Studies heritage and carrying forward to the next generation.'

New publications by our members: Alan Sharp’s 'A Green Tree in Gedde' (1965) in a scholarly edition prepared by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social @insuhi.bsky.social and Colin Mcilroy @natlibscot.bsky.social and published by @asls.org.uk. asls.org.uk/publications...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇹 A new Scoto-Sicilian literary collaboration is being developed at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social by IASSL members Derrick McClure and Letizia Leonardi, including a book featuring 11 poets and 6 translators. 📣 The team are looking for Sicilian writers interested in translating from Scottish poetry.

The latest episode of the podcast @thecarryingstream.bsky.social, founded and hosted by our member @paulmalgrati.bsky.social, features French historian Clément Guézais and focuses on the medieval Auld Alliance. 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pod.link/1865430519

The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New episode out, featuring Dr Clément Guézais and his cutting-edge reworking of the medieval Auld Alliance 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pod.link/1865430519

New publications by our members: Murray Pittock has published 'The Shortest History of Scotland' in the Shortest History Series. It was the no. 4 bestselling book in Scotland in May. tinyurl.com/3actvxcn

The latest issue of the IASSL quarterly newsletter has been dispatched to all members earlier this week, with information about projects, awards, publications, conferences, and upcoming events. All recent newsletter issues, including the current one, are available on our website. 📬📩

Newsletter

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In May, IASSL held its election for offices. Bob Irvine is the new convener, supported by a committee of re-elected and newly elected members, based at universities in Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, USA, and China, representing IASSL's global reach. tinyurl.com/yf5j35c6

CfP: 'Hogg’s Worlds Now'. The James Hogg Society is delighted to announce that it will be holding a conference at @glasgow.ac.uk on 2-4 July 2027. tinyurl.com/432anhdm

New publications by our members: the article 'Periodicals Published under the Banner of Waverley' by Anne McKee Stapleton has appeared in the Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social, published by @rs4vp.org.

Victorian Periodicals Review@vpreditors.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Anne McKee Stapleton considers how American and Scottish #editors harnessed Walter Scott’s global popularity to establish periodicals. Learn how the Waverley Magazine and Waverley Journal fostered literary alliances among women under the banner of #Waverley: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

On 11-12 May 2026, IASSL members Nigel Leask and Peadar O Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social organised a symposium in the Barbados Museum & Historical Society, entitled ‘Perspectives on the Gaelic Caribbean: Irish, Scottish and Caribbean Connections’. The recording is now available on YouTube.

Perspectives on the Gaelic Caribbean: Irish, Scottish and Caribbean Connections - Day 1

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If you missed the first webinar in the new series 'Narratives of Illness and Dis/ability in Scottish Literature' last week, featuring talks by Holly Faith Nelson and Graham Morgan, the full recording is now available on the IASSL YouTube channel. 🎦

Narratives of Illness and Dis/ability in Scottish Literature I: Holly Faith Nelson & Graham Morgan

YouTube video by IASSL

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