Margery Palmer McCulloch

Margery Palmer McCulloch is a Scottish literary scholar, author and co-editor of the Scottish Literary Review.[1]

Education and academia

Dr. Margery Palmer McCulloch was educated at the former Hamilton Academy; the University of London and the University of Glasgow and is a senior Honorary Research Fellow in Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow.[2] She is also an elected member of Council of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies and has served as Convener of the Association's Publications Board, as well as being co-editor of the Scottish Literary Review. A past Convener of the Society’s Glasgow Branch, McCulloch is also a former Honorary Secretary of the Saltire Society. She has contributed to literary and cultural programmes on BBC Radio and articles to newspapers and journals, including The Herald, The Scotsman and The Times Literary Supplement.[3][4][5]

In 1999, Dr McCulloch discovered a poem by Hugh MacDiarmid, which had been lost for 60 years. News of the poem's discovery was welcomed in the literary world. Dr McCulloch made the discovery whilst researching the archives of Catherine Carswell, a novelist and critic.[6]

Works

McCulloch has an extensive list of published books and articles on Scottish literature and writers, her published works including:[7][8]

  • The Novels of Neil M. Gunn: a critical study (Scottish Academic Press, 1987)
  • Edwin Muir: poet, critic and novelist (Edinburgh University Press, 1993)
  • The Man Who Came Back: Essays and Short Stories by Neil M. Gunn (edited with a critical introduction. Polygon, 1991. Reprinted 1998)
  • Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2000)
  • A Flame in the Mearns: Lewis Grassic Gibbon: a centenary celebration (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, University of Glasgow, 2003)
  • Modernism and Nationalism: Literature and Society in Scotland, 1918-1939 (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, University of Glasow, 2004)
  • Scottish Modernism and its Contexts 1918–1959: Literature, National Identity and Cultural Exchange (Edinburgh University Press, 2009)

References

  1. ↑ "Margery Palmer McCulloch". Edinburgh University Press Books. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
  2. ↑ University of Glasgow, staff profiles, Margery Palmer McCulloch Retrieved 201-09-07
  3. ↑ University of Glasgow – McCulloch, publications Retrieved 12 November 2010
  4. ↑ University of Glasgow – biography, Margery Palmer McCulloch Retrieved 12 November 2010
  5. ↑ Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Council Members, Dr. Margery Palmer McCulloch Retrieved 7 September 2011
  6. ↑ Lockerbie, Catherine (25 Nov 1999). "Writer's lost work found after 60 years Poet who saw through the lie of 'peace in our time' When the Gangs Came to London by Hugh McDiarmid". The Scotsman. Retrieved 3 Feb 2018.
  7. ↑ University of Glasgow. Margery Palmer McCulloch - list of published works Retrieved 7 September 2011
  8. ↑ Oxford University Press – The Review of English Studies. Review of Margery Palmer McCulloch's Scottish Modernism and its Contexts 1918–1959: Literature, National Identity and Cultural Exchange. Retrieved 7 September 2011

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