Claire McCallum
Claire McCallum
Claire McCallum graduated from the University of Glasgow in June 2005 with an MA (Hons) in English Literature and Scottish Literature, receiving the Neil Munro Medal for Scottish Literature and jointly receiving the Herkless Prize for the best female Arts graduate.
Her PhD research is a revisionist reading of the work of William Soutar (1898-1943) through the motif of the individual in community, which takes a comparative and international approach to his work as a poet and diarist. The research is supported by a Scholarship from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. She is also working on an edition of Soutar's Theme and Variation translations, and writing poetry of her own.
Claire is Reviews Editor of the ASLS newsletter ScotLit. She is also a member of the committee for the forthcoming 'Spinning Scotland' conference (September 2008). She is a GTA on the Level 1 Scottish Literature course, and will be lecturing on Soutar for the Victorian and Renaissance Literature Honours paper. She can be contacted on C.McCallum.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Selected recent conference papers:
'Translation and Modernism in the Poetry of William Soutar', Poetry and Translation International Conference, University of Stirling, July 2008.
'Soutar and Scotland', lecture given at A Day of Scottish Culture, organised by Perth Burns Club, held at the A.K. Bell Library Theatre, Perth, 25th November 2006.
'Translating Translation – William Soutar's Theme and Variation Manuscripts', InterActions Postgraduate Conference, University of Glasgow, 28th October 2006.
'Beyond the garden: natural landscape in the English poetry of William Soutar', The Lie of the Land International Conference, University of Stirling, 29th July 2006.