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Dr Eleanor Bell

Senior Lecturer

English & Creative Writing

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Personal statement

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I am a Senior Lecturer in Scottish Literature within the Department of Humanities.

My research focuses broadly on twentieth century Scottish literature. I am currently working on a monograph on Scottish literary magazine culture from 1950 to 2000 for Edinburgh University Press, as well an edited collection on Scottish magazines and political culture from 1968-1999 (also EUP) with Scott Hames and Malcolm Petrie.

From April 2026- December 2028 I will be working on an AHRC-funded project on Glasgow writer Archie Hind ('Beyond The Dear Green Place: The Lost Works and Literary Networks of Archie Hind'). You can read more about this project here: Archie Hind Archive at 吃瓜tv.

With Angela Bartie I co-edited The International Writers' Conference Revisited: Edinburgh, 1962 (Cargo Publishing, 2012), which was launched in August 2012听at the . The research from this book inspired the Edinburgh World Writers鈥� Conference 2012-2013. I have also published another co-edited book in this area (The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? (Amsterdam: Rodopi 2013).

I am a member of the听 and founding co-editor (with Scott Hames) of the from 2006-2010. I am a member of

I am an affiliated staff member of the Scottish Oral History Centre, and many of my current research students also adopt oral history methodologies in their work.

I have supervised a broad range of PhDs, mainly on Scottish literary topics (including Naomi Mitchison, Alexander Trocchi, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alasdair Gray, Agnes Owens, community writing in Glasgow, Glasgow and deindustrialisation).

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a potential PhD project.

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
2019
Recipient
2013
Recipient
2010
Recipient
1999

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Publications

The International Companion to the Scottish Novel (2025) (2025)
Place and the Periodical (2024)
World Congress of Scottish Literatures (2024)
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (2023) (2023)
Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, Vol 5 Women's Print Media in the Postwar Period (2020) (2020)
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Vol 61, pp. 341-353 (2020)

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Teaching

At undergraduate level I teach modules on 'Sixties Britain: Literature, Culture, Counterculture', 'Glasgow Narratives', 'Detective Fiction' and 'The Construction of Scotland: Text and Context'.

I was previously module co-ordinator for both the undergraduate work placement and the postgraduate research placement classes in English & Creative Writing.听

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Research Interests

My research broadly focusses on twentieth century Scottish literature. I am author of Questioning Scotland: Literature, Nationalism, Postmodernism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and co-editor of The Scottish Sixties:Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? (Rodopi, 2013), The International Writers' Conference Revisited: Edinburgh, 1962 (Cargo, 2012) and Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Literature and Culture听(Rodopi, 2004).

I am currently working on a monograph on Scottish literary magazine culture from 1950-2000 for EUP, as well as an edited collection on Scottish magazines and political culture from 1968-1999 (also EUP) with Scott Hames and Malcolm Petrie.

From April 2026 until December 2028 I am PI on the AHRC project 'Beyond The Dear Green Place: The Lost Works and Literary Networks of Archie Hind'.

Professional Activities

Participant
30/6/2025
Organiser
19/3/2025
Speaker
19/4/2023
Examiner
2023
Examiner
2023
Advisor
2020

Projects

Bell, Eleanor (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2028
Bell, Eleanor (Principal Investigator)
16-Jan-2023 - 15-Jan-2026
Bell, Eleanor (Principal Investigator)
16-Jan-2023 - 15-Jan-2026
Bell, Eleanor (Academic)
Second supervisor to Lauren Forde, SGSAH Collaborative Doctoral Award
17-Jan-2022 - 16-Jan-2025
Bell, Eleanor (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2019
Bell, Eleanor (Academic)
Quality Conversations in the ADR course
15-Jan-2014

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Contact

Dr Eleanor Bell
Senior Lecturer
English & Creative Writing

Email: eleanor.bell@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8334