August 2023

Dr Anna Girling

Dr Anna Girling is an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Twentieth-Century English and American Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Anna completed her PhD at Edinburgh in 2022, with a thesis on Edith Wharton, cosmopolitanism, gay male literature and literary decadence. She has an MA in English and Modern History from the University of St.

Dr Aliandra Barlete

Dr Aliandra Barlete is a Teaching Fellow at the Moray School of Education and Sport. She holds a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge. Ali joined Moray House in May 2020, and is now a core staff member of the MSc Comparative Education and International Development (MSc CEID). In 2023, she was shortlisted as Supervisor of the Year in the University of Edinburgh’s Student Teaching Awards.

Calling all playwrights!

An audience at the Traverse Theatre

Applications are now open for playwrights and theatremakers for the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship. The scheme is a collaboration between IASH and the Traverse Theatre, Scotland’s leading new writing theatre. In 2024, we are providing one Creative Fellowship that commissions, develops and supports an exceptional and innovative playwright in the creation of a new piece of work that speaks to our lives now and into the future.

Lucy Havens

Lucy was born in Seattle, Washington, USA and moved to Edinburgh in 2017 for postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh.  She has pursued interdisciplinary academic degrees that combine computer science and business, design and data science, and natural language processing and archival science.  As a Master’s student, Lucy was awarded the Edinburgh College of Art Award for her dissertation titled 'Physically Encoding Collection Metadata'.  For her PhD thesis, 'Recalibrating Machine Learning for Social Biases: A Case Study of Gender Bias in Archival Documentation', Lucy has investig

Dr Alberto Tondello

Dr Alberto Tondello is Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (UKRI funded) at the Universities of Edinburgh and Bern. Alberto received his PhD from University College London in 2021 with a project focusing on inanimate matter in the works of James Joyce. His main research interests include modernist literature, literary theory, and ecocriticism.