The STAR Team
Professor Susan Manning
University of Edinburgh
Professor Manning convenes the STAR Project and is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). She is Grierson Professor of English Literature, and has 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, a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, a member of the Press Committee of Edinburgh University Press, and of the Gifford Lectureships Committee. Her research centres on Scottish and American literary, religious and philosophical relationships, and she has a special interest in the writing of the Scottish Enlightenment and its influence in Europe and America. She is co-editor with Andrew Taylor of the new Edinburgh University Press Series on "Transatlantic Literatures" (2007), and is author of both The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1990) and Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (2002). She is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies and Symbiosis, A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations.
Susan.Manning@ed.ac.uk
0131 650 4671
Dr Andrew Taylor
University of Edinburgh
Dr Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor with Professor Manning of the new Edinburgh Studies in "Transatlantic Literatures" series, which was published by Edinburgh University Press. He specialises in nineteenth-century North American literature and intellectual history, and has an interest in the intersection of historiography and contemporary American fiction. He is the author of Henry James and the Father Question (2002), Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Experience (2010), and several articles on American writing and culture. He is the co-editor The Afterlife of John Brown (2005), Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader (2007), and Stanley Cavell: Literature, Philosophy, Criticism (2011). He is currently completing a co-authored book on Thomas Pynchon and about to begin work on an edition of Henry James's early short stories.
Andrew.Taylor@ed.ac.uk
0131 650 4584
Dr Maria Filippakopoulou
University of Edinburgh
Dr Filippakopoulou assists with the STAR website and teaches on the MSc in Literature and Transatlanticism, as well as the MSc in Translation Studies, at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and is completing a project on 'Transatlantic Poe'. The aim of her work is to produce a book proposal based on her finished thesis on the repositioning of Poe's work in early Anglo-American modernism thanks to the influential translation by Charles Baudelaire.
maria.filippakopoulou@virgin.net
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