From the Old Brewery

PhD student Shailini Vinod talks with linguistics PhD research student Ekiyokere Ekiye about her studies in literature and linguistics and her various roles as a lecturer and communications instructor in Nigeria and Scotland.       

PhD students Ian Grosz and Shailini Vinod talk with Scots Scriever and newly appointed lecturer at the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture Dr Shane Strachan about his journey from PhD to his appointment as lecturer, about his use of Doric and Scots as a creative platform, and about his role as current Scots Scriever. Shane also reads his poem Doric Dwams, discussing the inspir...

PhD students Ian Grosz and Shailini Vinod talk with the directors of the George Washington Wilson Centre for Art and Visual Culture, Drs Silvia Cassini and Hans Hones, about how they are bringing the arts and sciences together through the activities of the centre. The George Washington Wilson Centre brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines. Its members share a common concern in...

Third Year PhD researcher Eden Unger Bowditch reads from her novel in progress Two-Hundred-and-Fifty Years at Home, and discusses the nature of ambiguity in the literary text.

Brian Keeley is a final year PhD student within the Dept. of Film & Visual Culture of the University of Aberdeen.  His research focusses on portrayals of heart transplantation in contemporary art and visual culture.  Brian’s thesis is practice-based and draws upon his own experience as a visual artist and filmmaker, and as a heart transplant recipient.  Despite being a standard procedure to tr...

Summary This podcast explores the work that is being undertaken to produce a ten volume edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry at Aberdeen. Alison Lumsden, the Principal Investigator for the AHRC funded project The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry: Engaging New Audiences, explains what is involved in creating such an edition and with research fellows Natalie Tal Harries and Anna Fancett discus...

Summary Co-hosts Ian Grosz and Shailini Vinod talk to Jane Hughes about her work on contemporary life writing and memoir. All three are PhD students in creative writing at the University of Aberdeen.    Inspired by her past career as a civil funeral celebrant, Jane was already writing an experimental memoir incorporating elements of fiction and irreverent humour when her mother died, suddenly and...

Dr. Helen Lynch teaches Early Modern Literature & Creative Writing at University of Aberdeen. She has written two short story collections: The Elephant & the Polish Question (2009) and Tea for the Rent Boy (2018) as well as academic work on seventeenth century literature, gender and politics, including Milton & the Politics of Public Speech (2015). She has also written interactive onli...

In this episode, hosts Ian Grosz and Lise Olsen interview Isabella Maria Engberg about her PhD project, which discusses how environmental portrayals in scientific travel writing from the long nineteenth century have been developed. It considers works by three scientific authors who have benefited greatly from what they have seen, gathered, and understood from their travels and have, with their sci...

Despite the major advancement in social justice made in the past decades, modern media is still lagging behind when it comes to diversity and the representation of marginalised communities. This poses an important question for the field of adaptation studies: what is adaptation’s role in this issue and how can it properly address issues of social justice and bring more diverse stories to popular m...

A conversation with Lise Olsen on her 12-month artist in residency with The Moray Way Association, a charity organisation established to promote a 100-mile long circular walking route called The Moray Way.   An essential part of her process is to walk and record sound as an opportunity to focus attention on liminal moments, for example, everyday feelings, memories, and atmospheres. These things ar...

Lauren’s research focuses on the films of GDR documentary filmmakers Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann, who made multiple documentaries opposing the Vietnam War during the 1960s and 1970s. Although they first worked under the umbrella of the GDR’s state-owned film production company, in 1969 Heynowski and Scheumann were given their own production company, named Studio H&S. This was quite...

Join Dr Suk-Jun Kim, Isabella Engberg, and Ines for a chat about her current research on conference-going polar bears and climate change in German-Japanese writer Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear . If the Anthropocene – our proposed geological epoch, where human activity has become a dominant influence on the planet – ruptures modern notions of agency, intentionality, and rational decision-ma...

A transcript for this episode can be found online here. In this episode, Libertad discusses her PhD research project, ‘Echoes of War: A creative Exploration in Fiction of Traumatic Memories in the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War’. It focuses on Spanish literature in the context of Francoist Spain from a gender perspective. The research moves from women’s fiction in the 50s towards more contempo...

A transcript for this episode can be found online, here.   In this episode, Sarinah O’Donoghue discusses her research project that explores representations of autism and place in twenty-first century transnational literature. This includes, but is not limited to, novels, plays, poetry, and life writing. Researching this topic, I hope to emphasise the impact of environments (built and natural) on a...

A transcript for this episode can be found online, here. The Scottish artist E.A. Hornel, who was part of the ‘Glasgow Boys’, is well-known for his work as a painter, and it is no secret that he used photographs as an aid to produce his paintings. However, his extensive collection of images, about 1,700 of them, has only recently been catalogued, and has never really been studied as a whole. This...

A transcript for this episode can be found online, here. Dr Suk-Jun Kim, Director of Postgraduate Research at LLMVC, invites two PG Reps, Matthew Lee and Samuel Weaver to discuss the life of a PGR student at LLMVC.