Alistair Braidwood
Alistair Braidwood
Alistair graduated in 2002 with an M.A.(Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow. He returned in 2004 to complete an MPhil in Scottish Literature, and is currently working on his PhD, with his thesis entitled Existential Thought, Morality and Fictional Technique in Modern Scottish Fiction. Taking the ideas of Jean Paul Sartre, particularly with reference to the relationship between existentialism and literature, he is looking at the influence of the novel, and the novelist, on ideas of self, society and nation. This has led him to research writers such as Alexander Trocchi, James Kelman, Iain Banks, A L Kennedy, Janice Galloway, Alan Warner, Robin Jenkins and a list that seems to grow weekly! His research interests stretch to other aspects of culture and society, including working on a Filmography of Robert Burns, and he runs the postgraduate Scottish Film Group in the department, which meets on alternate Friday afternoons.
Alistair is a Level 3 tutor and can be contacted by email on A.Braidwood.1@research.gla.ac.uk.
Selected recent conference papers:
'Who Are You Looking At?: Scotland's Problematic Search for Identity in the Contemporary World', Displacement and Belonging in the Contemporary World, University of Salford, 6-7 September 2007
'Whit's Going On?: Iain Banks' Search for Morality in a Godless World', Visions Inaugural Postgraduate Conference, Crichton Campus, University of Glasgow, 31 May - 1 June 2007
'On the Inside, Looking In: Scotland's Denial of a Global Perspective', Globalisation and Cultural Transmission Postgraduate Conference, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 25-26 May 2007
Coming papers:
‘Welsh and his Women: Representations of the Female in the Fiction of Irvine Welsh’, 7th Annual Crosscurrents Conference, The University of Strathclyde, 18th-20th April 2008.