Dr Scott Brewster

Reader in English and Irish Literature

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Scott joined Salford in 2005 as a lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture, and was Director of English from 2007-2012. He previously held posts at University of Central Lancashire, Staffordshire University and University of Kent. He was President of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) from 2005 to 2009, and has been a member of the National Council of the British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) since 2002. He served on the judging Panel for the Undergraduate Awards of Ireland & Northern Ireland competition in 2011 and 2012. His current research projects centre on Gothic, tourism and travel, and on Freud and commemoration.

MA Literature, Culture and Modernity

• Gothic: Modernity and Monstrosity
• Theory, Text and Writing

Level 6

• Modernism
• Writing Ireland

Level 4

• Introduction to Poetry
• Theory and Practice

Irish Studies

Gothic

Psychoanalysis

Modern Poetry

BA, M. Phil, Ph.D

FHEA

Lyric (Routledge, 2009)

Irish Literature since 1990: Diverse Voices, ed. with Michael Parker (Manchester UP, 2009)

Inhuman Reflections: Thinking the Limits of the Human, ed. with John Joughin, David Owen and Richard Walker (Manchester UP, 2000)

Ireland in Proximity: History, Gender, Space, ed. with Virginia Crossman, Fiona Becket and David Alderson (Routledge, 1999).

2013 ‘Gothic and the Question of Theory, 1900-Present.’ The Gothic World. Ed. Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend. London: Routledge.

2013 ‘John Burnside: Poetry as the Space of Withdrawal.’ Poetry and Geography: Space and Place in Post-War Poetry. Ed. Neal Alexander and David Cooper. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

2012 ‘Casting an Eye: M. R. James, at the edge of the frame.’ Gothic Studies 14: 2 (Autumn): 40-52.

2012 ‘The Other Side: proximity, partition and poetry in the Northern Irish peace process.’ Special issue on ‘Contemporary Political Poetry in Britain and Ireland.’ Ed. Uwe Klawitter and Claus-Ulrich Viol. anglistik & englischunterricht 74.

2012 ‘Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Reading.’ [Revised and extended version.]  A New Companion to the Gothic. Ed. David Punter. Oxford: Blackwell: 481-495.

2011 ‘Participation without belonging: apostrophe and aberration in Seamus Heaney’s North.’ Aberration in Poetry: Essays on Atypical Works from Yeats and Auden to Larkin, Heaney, Gluck and Others. Ed. Stephen Matterson and Lucy Collins. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland: 63-76.

2010 ‘Hern: the catastrophe of lyric in John Burnside.’ Crisis and Contemporary Poetry. Ed. Anne Karhio, Seán Crosson and Charles Armstrong. London: Palgrave: 50-58. 

2010 ‘The Space that Cleaves: the House and Hospitality in Medbh McGuckian.’ The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: The Interior of Words. Ed. Shane Murphy and Richard Kirkland. Cork: Cork University Press: 105-116.

2009 ‘Flying High? Culture, criticism, theory since 1990.’ Irish Literature since 1990: Diverse Voices. Ed. Scott Brewster and Michael Parker. Manchester University Press: 16-39.

2008 ‘Access Denied: Memory and Resistance in the Contemporary Ghost Film.’ Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties. Ed. Jo Collins and John Jervis. London: Palgrave: 112-127.