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Professor Susan Manning - convenes the STAR Project and is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh. She is Grierson Professor of English Literature, and has held the posts of Research Director and Postgraduate Director in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, a member of the Press Committee of Edinburgh University Press, and of the Gifford Lectureships Committee. Her research centres on Scottish and American literary, religious and philosophical relationships, and she has a special interest in the writing of the Scottish Enlightenment and its influence in Europe and America. She is co-editor with Andrew Taylor of the new Edinburgh University Press Series on "Transatlantic Literatures" (2007), and is author of both The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1990) and Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (2002). She is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies and Symbiosis, A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations.
Dr Andrew Taylor - is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor with Professor Manning of the new Edinburgh Studies in "Transatlantic Literatures" series, which was published in 2007 by Edinburgh University Press. He specialises in nineteenth-century North American literature and intellectual history, and has an interest in the intersection of historiography and contemporary American fiction. He is the author of Henry James and the Father Question (CUP 2002) and several articles on American writing and culture. He is now completing a second work examining the transatlantic intellectual and the national imaginary in the United States.
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Dr Stella Bolaki - completed her thesis at the University of Edinburgh where she explored the female Bildungsroman tradition in the context of American multiethnic writing. She is co-director of Scottish Universities Summer School and she teaches at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently working on a cross-cultural project focusing on contemporary narratives of illness and disability.
Dr Tom Bristow - completed his dissertation entitled, 'A Cultural Study in the Poetics of Ecological Consciousness' (University of Edinburgh). This study mapped lines of thought from German Idealism to American Pragmatism and lines of poetry from Wordsworth and Emerson to contemporary British and American Poetry. He is currently working on a project focusing on: 'Interdisciplinary Studies: Literature and Human Geography.' He is a Member of the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) and of the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS). Articles include: "Contracted to an Eye-quiet World: Poetics of Place in Alice Oswald and William Carlos Williams" Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo American Literary Relations 10:2 (October, 2006): 167-185; 'Ecopoetics' in Facts on File Companion to World Poetry: 1900 to Present (Pennsylvania, 2007); and 'E.E. Cummings' in Facts on File Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry (Pennsylvania, 2007).
Ms Kristin Cook - is a doctoral student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She works as a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities where she is completing a thesis investigating Early American Rhetoric, Theatre and Diplomacy, focusing on Jefferson's relationship to colonial Virginian performance and his later role as minister plenipotentiary to France.
Dr Maria Filippakopoulou - assists with the STAR website and teaches on the MSc in Literature and Transatlanticism, as well as the MSc in Translation Studies, at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and is completing a project on 'Transatlantic Poe'. The aim of her work is to produce a book proposal based on her finished thesis on the repositioning of Poe's work in early Anglo-American modernism thanks to the influential translation by Charles Baudelaire.
Dr David Howard - is based in the Institute of Geography at the University of Edinburgh, David has research interests in contemporary social and urban geographies of the Caribbean and Latin America. His specific interests focus on the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, and on the theoretical links between urban policing, territory, violence and racial discrimination. In the Scottish context, he has two subsidiary research interests: firstly, the impact of current anti-racism and multicultural policies; and secondly, Scottish transatlantic connections with Jamaica and the historical role of the port of Leith as a point of passage. He is currently a CNRS Associate at the Centre d'Étude d'Afrique Noire, Université de Bordeaux IV; co-ordinating editor for the Bulletin of Latin American Research, and Chair of the Society for Caribbean Studies: http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/.
Dr Keith Hughes - lectures in American Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where has taught since 2001. He holds a BA (Joint Hons) in English & American Literature from the University of Manchester, and both a MSc and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. During 1998-9 he did postdoctoral research at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Studies, where he developed an abiding interest in African American literature. His current research/publication interests include: comparative readings of African American and Scottish literature up to the contemporary period; Frederick Douglass's mid-19th century tour of the British Isles; the problem of the Harlem renaissance; Richard Wright and Africa; Du Bois and European culture. Theoretical interests include the ongoing development of ideas of 'the black Atlantic', African American existentialism, 'republican aesthetics', and the meaning of 'culture' in African American literary theory, particularly the ways in which it problematises ideas of 'enlightenment'.
Dr Kate Macdonald - is an English lecturer working at the University of Ghent, Belgium, where she teaches poetry and British literary-historical culture. She is the author of John Buchan. A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (2009), and has been working most recently on the American editions of Buchan's works, using the pattern of his publishers over time to interpret his approach to authorship and his deliberate self-marketing to the American reader.
Dr Finn Pollard - completed his PhD at Edinburgh in 2005 and has since held posts at the Universities of Glasgow and Newcastle. His first monograph, The Literary Quest for an American National Character, will be published by Routledge in November 2008. His current project examines John Adams and the politics of the early national United States.
Dr Paul Quigley - is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Edinburgh. His research and teaching interests are in the United States during the era of the Civil War. He is particularly interested in Confederate nationalism, including its connections to the transatlantic history of nationalism in the nineteenth century.
Ms Lise Sorensen - is a doctoral student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research project explores the role of sympathy in the discursive formation of race in American and Scottish Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century literature. She holds a Master's degree in English Literature from The University of Edinburgh and a B.A. Honours degree in English Literature from Concordia University (Canada).
Dr. Aishih Wehbe-Herrera - is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, where she is working on gender relations and masculinity in Chicana/o, Native-American and Latina/o literature. Her research interests are in Ethnic-American and postcolonial writing, postmodernism, border theory and gender theory. She is currently teaching at the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh and she is also the STAR Project's Research Officer. She organises seminars, conferences & symposia, maintains the STAR website, handles STAR's daily correspondence, and helps to facilitate the overall growth of the project.
Dr Karina Williamson - is an Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Her research interests are in Caribbean writing and 18c English Literature. She is currently working on Scottish writers in the West Indies before
emancipation.
Mr RAM Wright - is a doctoral student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Robert is interested in the transatlantic circulation of visual culture, specifically, the Victorian preoccupation with marble.
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