Publications

In print:

“Full Circle: The Function of Place in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins,” Terranglian Territories: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, ed. Susanne Hagemann (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2000) 179-186.

“Chaos and Dissolution: Deconstruction and Scotland in the Later Fiction of Robin Jenkins,” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 41 (November 2000): 103-116.

“The Forgotten Novels of Robin Jenkins: A Thematic Survey,” Edinburgh Review 106 (Spring 2001): 23-32.

“Robin Jenkins”. Dictionary of Literary Biography – Volume 271: British and Irish Novelists Since 1960 (Detroit: Gale, 2003) 184-195.

“’In my own country, where I most desire’: Art and Identity in Robin Jenkins’s Poor Angus”, in the proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation (Sweden, 2002).

“Ethics of War in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins,” Ethically Speaking: Voice and Values in Modern Scottish Writing, eds. James McGonigal and Kirsten Stirling (New York: Rodopi, 2006) 87-98.

“Mary Queen of Scots as Feminine and National Icon: Depictions in Film and Fiction,” Rewriting Scotland: Literature and Cinema, spec. issue of Études Écossaises no. 15 (2012): 75-93.

“Charles Dickens’s Historical Fiction: The Importance of the French Revolution,” Charles Dickens and Europe, ed. Maxime Leroy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) 60-71.

Ed. Murder in the Cathedral, by T. S. Eliot. A bilingual edition, Icelandic translation by Karl J. Guðmundsson, ed. Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir (Reykjavík: Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur / Háskólaútgáfan, 2013).

“Frá ljóðlist til ljóðleikja: T. S. Eliot og Morð í dómkirkju” [Introduction: “From Poetry to Poetic Drama: T. S. Eliot and Murder in the Cathedral”]. Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot. A bilingual edition, Icelandic translation by Karl J. Guðmundsson, ed. Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir (Reykjavík: Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur / Háskólaútgáfan, 2013) 11-38.

“Surrender and Sacrifice: Imperial Subjugation and the Coloured Mistress in Robin Jenkins’s The Expatriates and ‘Imelda and the Miserly Scot,’” Milli mála – Tímarit um erlend tungumál og menningu 5. árg. (2013), 127-146.

“Nothing Against Her Honour: Fictional and Filmic Interpretations of the Murder of Lord Darnley.” Crimelights: Scottish Crime Writing – Then and Now (Scottish Studies in Europe Vol. 2), eds. Kirsten Sandrock and Frauke Reitemeier (Trier: Wissenschaftelicher Verlag Trier, 2015), 37-52.

“’The story that history cannot tell’: Female Empowerment and the Frailties of Queenship in Philippa Gregory’s Historical Novels.” An Intimacy of Words: Essays in Honour of Pétur Knútsson, eds. Matthew Whelpton et al (Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur / Háskólaútgáfan, 2015), 138-157.

“’Pilgrims of Conscience’ in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins.” The Fiction of Robin Jenkins: Some Kind of Grace (SCROLL – Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature), eds. Linden Bicket and Douglas Gifford (Amsterdam: Brill, 2017), 143-158.

“Old Themes and Self Reflection in Jenkins’s Later Novels.” The Fiction of Robin Jenkins: Some Kind of Grace (SCROLL – Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature), eds. Linden Bicket and Douglas Gifford (Amsterdam: Brill, 2017), 171-196.

Forthcoming:

“Mining the Mundane and Finding Gold: Reality, Imagination and the Magical in Jackie Kay’s Short Fiction.” Scottish Women’s Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Sarah Dunnigan et al, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2019 (?).