Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Association for Scottish Literary Studies
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The Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) is a Scottish educational charity[1], founded in 1970 to promote and support the teaching, study and writing of Scottish literature. Its founding members included the Scottish literary scholar Matthew McDiarmid (1914–1996). Originally based at the University of Aberdeen, it moved to its current home within the University of Glasgow in 1996. ASLS is supported by Creative Scotland.

ASLS's main field of activity is publishing, and the Association is a member of Publishing Scotland.[2]

Contents

Publications

Periodicals

ASLS produces a number of periodicals, including Scottish Literary Review (formerly Scottish Studies Review), a peer reviewed journal of Scottish literature and cultural studies; Scottish Language, a peer reviewed journal of Scottish languages and linguistics; The International Journal of Scottish Literature, a free online peer reviewed journal; and The Bottle Imp, a free online ezine (named after the short story by Robert Louis Stevenson).

Books

Annual Volumes

Since 1971 ASLS has republished a number of out of print Scottish texts in their Annual Volumes series (40 volumes to date). Titles in the series include reprints of 18th- and 19th-century fiction, anthologies of Scottish drama, editions of poetry and collections of other writings. Two ASLS Annual Volumes have won Saltire Society Research Book of the Year awards: The Poems of William Dunbar, edited by Priscilla Bawcutt (1998), and Sorley MacLean's Dàin do Eimhir, edited by Christopher Whyte (2002)[3].

New Writing Scotland

Since its first issue in 1983, many contemporary Scottish writers have had early work published in ASLS's annual anthology of new short fiction and poetry, New Writing Scotland, including Leila Aboulela[4], Iain Banks[5], Anne Donovan[6], Janice Galloway[7], A L Kennedy[8], James Meek[9], Ian Rankin[10], James Robertson[11], Suhayl Saadi[12], Chiew-Siah Tei[13], Irvine Welsh[14], and others.

Occasional Papers

The ASLS Occasional Papers series publishes essays and monographs on Scottish literary and linguistic topics, usually based on papers presented at ASLS conferences. The most recent edition in this series, number 15, is entitled Scottish and International Modernisms: Relationships and Reconfigurations, and contains papers presented at a conference held at the University of Stirling in 2009[15].

Scotnotes

ASLS publishes the Scotnotes series of study guides to Scottish writers and their literary works. There are currently thirty titles in this series, on authors ranging from late medieval poets such as William Dunbar and Robert Henryson to contemporary writers such as Iain Banks, Liz Lochhead and Ian Rankin[16].

Other Titles

In May 2010, in partnership with the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, ASLS published an illustrated edition of Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake, to mark the 200th anniversary of the original publication[17]. In June 2011, with financial support from the Gaelic Books Council, ASLS published a new edition of Sorley MacLean's An Cuilithionn/The Cuillin[18], shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year award 2011[19].

Exhibitions

Since 2004, ASLS has mounted the Scottish Writing Exhibition at the Modern Language Association of America's annual conventions in the USA, most recently in Los Angeles in January 2011[20], and plans to attend the 2012 event in Seattle. In August 2008 the Scottish Writing Exhibition was on display at the biannual European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) conference in Aarhus in Denmark.

Presidents

A number of literary scholars have held the presidency of the ASLS:

  • John MacQueen (1970–1973)
  • Tom Dunn (1973–1976)
  • Alexander Scott (1976–1979)
  • David Daiches[21] (1979–1984)
  • Tom Crawford (1984–1989)
  • Maurice Lindsay[22] (1989–1993)
  • John Blackburn (1993–1994)
  • David Robb (1994–1998)
  • Dorothy McMillan (1998–2002)
  • Alan MacGillivray (2002–2006)
  • Alan Riach (2006–2010)
  • Ian Brown (2010–present)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Scottish Charity Register". Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. http://www.oscr.org.uk/CharityIndexDetails.aspx?id=SC006535. Retrieved 2008-03-16. 
  2. ^ "Publishers Member List". Publishing Scotland. http://www.publishingscotland.co.uk/Membership/default.aspx?pid=26&id=4. Retrieved 2008-08-12. 
  3. ^ "Research Book Awards". Saltire Society. http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/research.htm. Retrieved 2009-03-05. 
  4. ^ Friends and Kangaroos: New Writing Scotland 17. Glasgow: ASLS. 1999. pp. pp1–6. ISBN 0948877413. 
  5. ^ New Writing Scotland 1. Aberdeen: ASLS. 1983. pp. p32. ISBN 0950262943. 
  6. ^ Full Strength Angels: New Writing Scotland 14. Glasgow: ASLS. 1996. pp. pp20–23. ISBN 0948877316. 
  7. ^ New Writing Scotland 7. Aberdeen: ASLS. 1989. pp. pp60–68. ISBN 0948877065. 
  8. ^ Pig Squealing: New Writing Scotland 10. Aberdeen: ASLS. 1992. pp. pp78–82. ISBN 0948877154. 
  9. ^ New Writing Scotland 7. Aberdeen: ASLS. 1989. pp. pp133–148. ISBN 0948877065. 
  10. ^ Ian Rankin. "An Afternoon". The Short Story. http://www.theshortstory.org.uk/stories/index.php4?storyid=9. Retrieved 2008-03-16. 
  11. ^ "The Locus Index to Science Fiction 2001". Locus Online. http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2001/d60.htm#A3392. Retrieved 2008-03-16. 
  12. ^ The Glory Signs: New Writing Scotland 16. Glasgow: ASLS. 1998. pp. pp131–140. ISBN 0948877375. 
  13. ^ Making Soup in a Storm: New Writing Scotland 24. Glasgow: ASLS. 2006. pp. pp92–97. ISBN 9780948877728. 
  14. ^ "Writing Scotland". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/arts/writingscotland/learning_journeys/scotlands_languages/irvine_welsh/. Retrieved 2008-03-16. 
  15. ^ "Scottish and International Modernisms". ASLS. http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/Modernisms.html. Retrieved 2011-10-20. 
  16. ^ "Scotnotes". ASLS. http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/Scotnotes.html. Retrieved 2009-03-05. 
  17. ^ "The Lady of the Lake". ASLS. http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/LotL.html. Retrieved 2010-07-09. 
  18. ^ "An Cuilithionn 1939". ASLS. http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/Cuillin.html. Retrieved 2011-06-16. 
  19. ^ "The Saltire Society: 2011 Shortlist". Saltire Society. http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/4282. Retrieved 2011-11-21. 
  20. ^ "List of 2011 Exhibitors". MLA. http://www.mla.org/list_of_2011_exhibit. Retrieved 2011-01-13. 
  21. ^ Baker, William; Lister, Michael, eds (2007). David Daiches: a Celebration of His Life and Work. Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press. p. 70. ISBN 9781845191597. 
  22. ^ Riach, Alan (2009-05-12). "Obituary: Maurice Lindsay". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/may/12/maurice-lindsay-obituary-poet-scotland/. Retrieved 2009-06-01. 

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