July 2016

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English Literature, The University of Edinburgh

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Bath Spa University

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I specialise in twentieth and twenty first century literature, from the modernist period to contemporary experimental writing, and in particular British literature and culture of the 1920s and 1930s. My research is informed by environmental humanities and health humanities perspectives.

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Philosophy Department, United Arab Emirates University

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Professor David Purdie is a medical Professor Emeritus and a former Clinical Sub-Dean of the Leeds University medical school. He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of IASH in 2012 by the late Susan Manning, his fields of interest being in the scientific and literary components of the Scottish Enlightenment – specifically the works of Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns and David Hume.