Glenda Norquay
Professor of Scottish Literary Studies
Research Interests
Nineteenth and twentieth century Scottish fiction, with a particular interest in R.L. Stevenson and in contemporary women's writing; women's political writing: the literature of suffrage; reading theories.
Current Projects
Editor of Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Literature, Scottish Women's Writing; ongoing research on Stevenson.
Publications (Selected)
Books
Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading: the Reader as Vagabond (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)
Women's Suffrage Literature (co-edited, with K. Cockin & S. Park; 6 volumes, Routledge/Taylor Francis 2007)
including: co-author "General Introduction" (with K. Cockin & S. Park); &
introductions to Volumes V (The Home-breakers) and VI (The Call)
The Collected Works of Lorna Moon (edited; Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, 2002)
Across the Margins: Cultural Identity and Change in the Atlantic Archipelago (edited with Gerry Smyth) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001)
Including 'Introduction: Crossing the Margins' (1-12); 'Waking up in a different place: Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction' (154-70)
Journal Articles
"Mediating Women's Suffrage Literature", Women's Studies International Forum 29 (May-June 2006), 301-306 (with Sowon S. Park)
"Ghost Writing: Stevenson and Dumas", Journal of Stevenson Studies 1 (2003), 60-75
"Waking Up in a Different Place", Irish Review 28, Ireland and Scotland: Colonial Legacies and National Identities (2003), 28-45 (with G. Smyth)
Book Chapters
"'Partial to Intensity': the Novels of A.L. Kennedy", in J. Acheson & S. C. E. Ross (eds), The Contemporary British Novel (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005), 142-153
"Trading Texts: Stevenson and Negotiations of the Popular in the Case of Treasure Island", in Richard Ambrosini & Richard Dury (eds), Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries (Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2005), 60-69
"Flourishing Through Oppression: The Camomile", in C. Anderson (ed.), Opening the Doors: the Achievement of Catherine Carswell (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, 2001), 124-136
External Professional Activities
Member, Editorial Board, SCROLL (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature); Editorial Board Journal of Stevenson Studies. I have acted as external examiner for undegraduate degrees in English and Scottish Literature at the universities of Glasgow; Edinburgh; Sunderland and Bolton and am currently external examiner for the M.A. in Modern Literature, University of Plymouth.
Postgraduate Teaching and Supervision
I teach on the Research Masters Programme and have supervised PhD theses on Woman Magazine; the Edinburgh Ladies Debating Society; second-generation Irish rock musicians; the fiction of Raymond Willliams; Virginia Woolf and romanticism.
I have also examined a number of PhD theses on Stevenson (King's College London and Queensland); Scottish fiction (Edinburgh and Glasgow); Margaret Oliphant (Strathclyde); Scottish women's poetry (Glasgow), as well as a number of M.Litt and Masters theses.
Teaching: Undergraduate
Twentieth-century women's writing; Irish and Scottish fiction and film; adventure fiction.
