Biography
Scott Lyall is Associate Professor of Modern and Scottish Literature. After completing his PhD at the University of St Andrews, he was postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Irish鈥揝cottish Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He joined the English group at 麻豆社区 in 2009. He is currently the university鈥檚 representative on the executive committee of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, as well as vice-convenor of the academic committee of Edinburgh Napier鈥檚 Doctoral College and convenor of the Doctoral College examination board.
Dr Lyall is a literary and cultural historian whose main research areas are modernism and literary revivals. Much of his work concerns the interwar renaissance in Scottish literature, on which he has published extensively and been interviewed on TV and radio. He is the author of Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place, and editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid, The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and Community in Modern Scottish Literature. A co-edited volume, The Scottish Literary and Cultural Revival, 1880s鈥1950s, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press. Co-editor of Scottish Literary Review, Dr Lyall serves on the publications committee of the Association for Scottish Literature and on the executive committee of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures.
Dr Lyall has supervised several PhD projects and welcomes applications and enquiries from prospective research students, especially in his primary areas of research expertise: modern Scottish literature, small-nation modernism, and movements of cultural revival.