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The
Director
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Current Fellows
Advisory Board
Management Group
Recent Fellowship Elections
Former Fellows
Susan Manning has been Director
of the Institute since January 2005. She is Grierson Professor of English
Literature, and previously held the posts of Research Director and Postgraduate
Director in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University
of Edinburgh.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust. As a member of the Press Committee of Edinburgh University Press and of the Gifford Lectureships Committee, and Deputy Chair of the Research Committee of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, she takes an active role in the developing research agenda for Arts and Humanities at Edinburgh. Susan also serves on the Advisory Boards of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and the Stirling/South Carolina Edition of the Works of James Hogg.
Her primary research interests lie in the fields of the Scottish Enlightenment and in Scottish-American literary relations, the subjects of her books The Puritan-Provincial Vision (CUP, 1990), and the transatlantic study Fragments of Union (Palgrave, 2002). She is one of the co-editors of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature which was published in three volumes in 2006, and (with Andrew Taylor) of the first Reader in Transatlantic Literary Studies. She has edited several collections of essays in Enlightenment studies, as well as the works of Henry Mackenzie (including a new edition of Julia de Roubigné), Walter Scott's Quentin Durward, Washington Irving's The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., and Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer. Her edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun was published by OUP in 2002.
Susan is a Board Member and Past President of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society; with Dr Nicholas Phillipson, she convened a three-year research project on The Science of Man in Scotland, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She also co-ordinates the Carnegie funded STAR (Scotland's Transatlantic Relations) initiative; both of these projects have benefited from the resources of IASH and conduct regular meetings at the Institute. Ongoing research projects include a new EUP series on "Transatlantic Literatures", a major study of Character, and the development of methodologies for interdisciplinary and transnational studies.
The Deputy
Director
Dr. Pauline Phemister, Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh,
has been appointed as Deputy Director of the Institute from January 2009.
She has published many articles on early modern philosophy and has recently
completed books on Leibniz, on the Rationalists, and an abridged edition
of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding. She is currently
engaged on studies of the body and sensory perception of body in the history
of philosophy and contemporary ecophilosophy. Her research interests lie
primarily in early modern philosophy, especially Leibniz and Locke, and
in the Philosophy of Nature. Her publications include Leibniz and the
Natural World Activity, Passivity and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz's
Philosophy (2005); The Rationalists: Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz
(2006); Leibniz's Philosophy and the English-Speaking World (ed.
with Stuart Brown; 2007).
The Institute Administrator: Mrs
Anthea Taylor
The Institute Secretary: Mr.
Donald Ferguson
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Dr. Marco Bernini, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Guy Bennett-Hunter, Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor Marianne Boruch, Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professor; Department of English, Purdue University
Dr. Sharon Deane-Cox, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Rachel Harkness, Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor Deidre Lynch, Department of English, University of Toronto
Dr. Simon Macdonald, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Claire McKechnie, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Stuart McWilliams, Newby Trust Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. David Manning, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Piyush Mathur, CWIT Fellow; Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
Dr. David Miller, English, University of Stirling
Dr. Peter Millican, Illumni David Hume Fellow; Hertford College, Oxford
Dr. Heather Moquin, Simon Research Fellow
Dr. Alexandra Parvan, Mellon Fellow; University of Pitesti, Romania
Dr. Prasannanshu, British Academy Visiting Scholar; National Law University, Delhi
Dr. Mark Robson, English Studies, University of Nottingham
Dr. Linda Tym, Postdoctoral Fellow and STAR Research Officer
Professor Pauline von Bonsdorff, Professor of Art Education, Department of Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä
Dr. Karina Williamson, English Literature, The University of Edinburgh
Dr. Esther Wohlgemut, English, University of Prince Edward Island
Dr. Koji Yamamoto, Newby Trust Postdoctoral Fellow
Chair: Professor Dorothy Miell (Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh)
Professor Sir Michael Atiyah
(former President, The Royal Society and The Royal Society
of Edinburgh)
Professor Iain Boyd Whyte (Department of Architecture, University
of Edinburgh; Director of VARIE (Visual Arts Research Institute, Edinburgh))
Professor Rosi Braidotti (Founding Director, Centre for the Humanities,
University of Utrecht)
Professor Alice Brown (former Scottish Public Services Ombudsman
and Vice-Principal, University of Edinburgh)
Sir Andrew Cubie (Consultant to Fyfe Ireland LLP)
Professor Mark Dorrian (Professor of Architecture Research, Newcastle
University)
Professor Engin Isin (Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University)
Dr. Robin Jackson (Chief Executive & Secretary, The British
Academy)
Professor Irene McAra-McWilliam (Head of School of Design, Glasgow
School of Art)
Dame Janet Ritterman (formerly Director, Royal College of Music,
London)
Ms Sarah Smith (Director, Children, Young People and Social Care
Directorate, The Scottish Government)
Professor Dame Joan Stringer, DBE, Principal & Vice-Chancellor,
Edinburgh Napier University
Professor Bonnie Webber (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh;
Dean of Research, College of Science and Engineering)
Ms Christine Wilson (Governance Adviser, British Council Scotland)
The Management Group oversees the development of the Institute's research themes and programmes. The members (listed below) also have regular contact with the Fellows.
Professor Frank Cogliano (Professor of American History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology)
Professor Jane Dawson (John Laing Professor of Reformation History, School of Divinity)
Professor Jo Shaw (Dean of Research, College of Humanities and Social Science; Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, School of Law)
Professor Jonathan Spencer (Professor of the Anthropology of South Asia, School of Social and Political Studies)
Recent
Fellowship Elections
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link for details of those who have been elected to Fellowships of
the Institute
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have held Fellowships at the Institute are available in the Register
of Fellows.