Dr Sophie Vlacos
- Lecturer in English Literature Post 1900 (English Literature)
telephone:
0141 330 5148
email:
Sophie.Vlacos@glasgow.ac.uk
English Literature, Room 311, 5 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QH
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4340-5716Research interests
Research Interests: contemporary literature, Modernism, Continental philosophy, hermeneutics and contemporary critical theory.
Biography: I have a PhD in philosophy from Cardiff University (2011) and joined the School of Critical Studies at Glasgow in 2012. I have taught on a variety of (largely post-1900) courses within English Literature and supervise doctoral theses on a range of contemporary authors and theorists. In 2014 I published a monograph, Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination, with Bloomsbury, about Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy of language and the history of modern literary theory. Parts of this work have been translated into Polish and Italian. I convene the undergraduate courses ‘Writing and Ideology’ and ‘Literary Theory’ and run a research-led postgraduate course on contemporary theory and fiction, entitled ‘Contemporary Realisms’. I also head-up the staff research cluster in Critical Theory.
Recent research activities include the ‘Theory Now’ conference, which I hosted in Glasgow March 2019 and an article for the American studies journal Symbiosis, entitled ‘Freedom and mauvais foi in Eliot and Franzen’ (Fall, 2018).
Publications
2024
Duprat, A., Currie, M., During, E., Vlacos, S. and Carrard, P. (2024) Chance, causality, temporality. In: Duprat, Anne and James, Alison (eds.) Figures of Chance II: Chance in Theory and Practice. Routledge: New York, pp. 13-64. ISBN 9781032358659 (doi: 10.4324/9781003329060-2)
2022
Vlacos, S. (2022) Paul Ricoeur and the limits of critique. In: The Challenges of Autonomy and Autonomy as a Challenge: Thinking Autonomy in Challenging Times. Kritika & Kontext: Bratislava, pp. 51-61. ISBN 9788097234089
2019
Vlacos, S. (2019) Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations [Co-editor]. Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations,
Vlacos, S. (2019) Responsible individualism and mauvaise foi in middlemarch and freedom. Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 22(2), pp. 171-195.
Gair, C. and Vlacos, S. (2019) From Poe to Post-Postmodernism: Symbiosis, 1997–2018. Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 22(2), pp. 125-145.
Vlacos, S. (2019) Realisms. In: O'Gorman, Daniel and Eaglestone, Robert (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction. Series: Routledge companions to literature series. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9780415716048 (doi: 10.4324/9781315880235-10)
2018
Vlacos, S. (2018) Habit. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 174-175. ISBN 9780748637027
Vlacos, S. (2018) Late modernism. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 209-210. ISBN 9780748637027
Vlacos, S. (2018) New criticism. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 259-261. ISBN 9780748637027
Vlacos, S. (2018) Realism. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 315-320. ISBN 9780748637027
2017
Vlacos, S. (2017) Critique and Complexity: Some Challenges to Contemporary Literary Theory. English Association Shared Futures Conference, Newcastle, UK, 05-07 Jul 2017. (Unpublished)
Vlacos, S. (2017) The Hermeneutics of Suspicion; Ricoeur's Ideology and Utopia [Guest Lecture, Fonds Ricoeur, Paris]. Reconsidering Ideology and Utopia 30 Years On, Paris, France, 26-30 Jun 2017. (Unpublished)
Vlacos, S. (2017) The Problem of Other Minds in Doctorow's Homer and Langley. Historical Fiction Conference, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK, 18 Apr 2017. (Unpublished)
Vlacos, S. (2017) British fiction 1930-1945. Year's Work in English Studies, 96, pp. 944-952. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/max016)[Book Review]
2014
Vlacos, S. (2014) Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination. Bloomsbury: New York. ISBN 9781441135384
Vlacos, S. (2014) Unfinished Worlds: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer, by Nicholas Davey. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, 1(2), pp. 241-243. (doi: 10.2752/205393214X14083775795113)[Book Review]
2010
Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. (Eds.) (2010) Creation, Environment and Ethics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle. ISBN 9781443825085
Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. (2010) Creation, Environment and Ethics. Cambridge Scholars: London. ISBN 9781443825085
Articles
Vlacos, S. (2019) Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations [Co-editor]. Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations,
Vlacos, S. (2019) Responsible individualism and mauvaise foi in middlemarch and freedom. Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 22(2), pp. 171-195.
Gair, C. and Vlacos, S. (2019) From Poe to Post-Postmodernism: Symbiosis, 1997–2018. Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 22(2), pp. 125-145.
Books
Vlacos, S. (2014) Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination. Bloomsbury: New York. ISBN 9781441135384
Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. (2010) Creation, Environment and Ethics. Cambridge Scholars: London. ISBN 9781443825085
Book Sections
Duprat, A., Currie, M., During, E., Vlacos, S. and Carrard, P. (2024) Chance, causality, temporality. In: Duprat, Anne and James, Alison (eds.) Figures of Chance II: Chance in Theory and Practice. Routledge: New York, pp. 13-64. ISBN 9781032358659 (doi: 10.4324/9781003329060-2)
Vlacos, S. (2022) Paul Ricoeur and the limits of critique. In: The Challenges of Autonomy and Autonomy as a Challenge: Thinking Autonomy in Challenging Times. Kritika & Kontext: Bratislava, pp. 51-61. ISBN 9788097234089
Vlacos, S. (2019) Realisms. In: O'Gorman, Daniel and Eaglestone, Robert (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction. Series: Routledge companions to literature series. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9780415716048 (doi: 10.4324/9781315880235-10)
Vlacos, S. (2018) Habit. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 174-175. ISBN 9780748637027
Vlacos, S. (2018) Late modernism. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 209-210. ISBN 9780748637027
Vlacos, S. (2018) New criticism. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 259-261. ISBN 9780748637027
Vlacos, S. (2018) Realism. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 315-320. ISBN 9780748637027
Book Reviews
Vlacos, S. (2017) British fiction 1930-1945. Year's Work in English Studies, 96, pp. 944-952. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/max016)[Book Review]
Vlacos, S. (2014) Unfinished Worlds: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer, by Nicholas Davey. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, 1(2), pp. 241-243. (doi: 10.2752/205393214X14083775795113)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. (Eds.) (2010) Creation, Environment and Ethics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle. ISBN 9781443825085
Conference or Workshop Item
Vlacos, S. (2017) Critique and Complexity: Some Challenges to Contemporary Literary Theory. English Association Shared Futures Conference, Newcastle, UK, 05-07 Jul 2017. (Unpublished)
Vlacos, S. (2017) The Hermeneutics of Suspicion; Ricoeur's Ideology and Utopia [Guest Lecture, Fonds Ricoeur, Paris]. Reconsidering Ideology and Utopia 30 Years On, Paris, France, 26-30 Jun 2017. (Unpublished)
Vlacos, S. (2017) The Problem of Other Minds in Doctorow's Homer and Langley. Historical Fiction Conference, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK, 18 Apr 2017. (Unpublished)
Grants
Grants: Carnegie Research Incentive Grant, ‘Gesture in German Expressionism’, £1,197, 2015.
Supervision
Supervision: I am interested in supervising theses in many aspects of literary studies from the late 19th century onwards and particularly welcome projects with a strong philosophical or theoretical basis.
I currently supervise doctoral theses in the following areas:
Post-Arab Spring literature
W.B Sebald and the model
Theory-fiction and speculative realism
Contemporary literary depictions of Ottoman women
Geocritical readings of migrant fiction
- Blackburn, Rhobet
How can the concept of oscillation inform practical and theoretical explorations of posthuman philosophy after Adorno and Horkheimer? - Franks, Nadia Terese Laguna
What is Post-Truth Literature? Navigating Western Disaster..
Teaching
Teaching:
Postgraduate
Contemporary Realisms, MLitt course option (convenor)
Core contributions to the MLitt Modernities pathway
Dissertation supervision for Modernities pathway
Honours
Literary Theory (convenor)
Modern Literature 1890-1945
Modern Literature 1945-present day
Dissertation supervision
Pre-Honours
2A Writing and Ideology (convenor)
