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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 

University of Strathclyde, September 2008 - present

PhD thesis: 'Beauty. Tradition. Experiment.' The homely avant-gardism of Ian Hamilton Finlay and Alec Finlay.

MLitt Literature, Culture & Place with Merit 2008-2009

Dissertation on the Urban Wander in Glasgow Fiction.

Scottish Centre of Journalism Studies, Strathclyde/Caledonian University 2002-2003

Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism Studies

Passed course, which is NCTJ accredited. My studies have included arts reviewing and feature writing. I also helped produce a series of newspapers.



University of Aberdeen 1998-2002

MA Joint Honours English & History 2:1

Dissertation in English: Narrative Strategies for the Representation of Identity in Selected Works by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. First class honours.

Topics I studied included modern Scottish literature, romance, medieval literature, oral history, the Renaissance and Reformation, and 20th century music.

CONFERENCES & PUBLICATIONS 

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm"><span style="line-height: 0.35cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; ">'Beauty. Tradition. Experiment: the re-mapping of Scottish culture in the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay and Alec Finlay'. Conversify: Poetry, politics & form. University of Edinburgh, 11 <sup style="font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> th <span style="line-height: 0.35cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; "> September 2011.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm; "><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 0.35cm; font-style: normal; ">'The Poet's Blueprint: The Pastoral and the Avant-Garde in Ian Hamilton Finlay's Poor.Old.Tired.Horse.' <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 0.35cm; font-style: normal; ">Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 62, Universidad de La Laguna, April 2011.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; line-height: 0.35cm; ">'Little Magazines and the Avant-Garde in 1960s Scotland'. <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; line-height: 0.35cm; ">Poets and Publishers: Circulating Avant-garde Poetry 1945-2010, University of Maine, Le Mans, France, 16 October 2010.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm; "><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; line-height: 0.35cm; ">'Justified Sinners and Little Magazines in 1960s Scotland'. <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; line-height: 0.35cm; ">Transgressions & Its Limits', University of Stirling, 29 May 2010.

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