Peter Fosl is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Transylvania University, Kentucky.
He is at IASH as the 2013-14 David Hume Fellow and is working on "The Promise of Philosophy: Skepticism and Naturalism in Hume"
Dr. Abbie Garrington (Postdoctoral Fellow 2007-8) is a lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University. She has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a book: High Modernism: A Literary History of Mountaineering, 1890-1945. Her book Haptic Modernism was published earlier this year by Edinburgh University Press (see http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748641741).
Dr Martyn Pickersgill, former IASH Newby Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, has been awarded funds from the Leverhulme Trust for a new 2-year project on ‘Neuroscience and Family Life: The Brain in Policy and Practice’. Martyn is currently Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics in the Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
Following his Fellowship at IASH, Dr. Marco Bernini (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-12) has taken up a two-year Junior Research Fellowship in the English Studies Department at the University of Durham (2012-2014). His co-authored book on Literature and Cognitive Science has just been published (in italian) (original title: Letteratura e Scienze Cognitive) – see:
A new opera by Stuart MacRae (Edinburgh Festival Creative Fellow, 2005-6) was premiered at the 2012 Edinburgh International Festival. Ghost Patrol with libretto by Louise Welsh was commissioned and produced by Scottish Opera and has since been performed in Glasgow, as well as being toured extensively in England and Wales. It won the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts Award for opera, beating off competition from the Royal Opera House’s production of Les Troyens and the Barbican’s Where the Wild Things Are.
Congratulations to Dr. David Manning (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-12) on his appointment as a lecturer in History at the University of Stirling from February 2013.
Professor Desmond Bell (Visiting Research Fellow 2008 and 2010-11) is currently Head of Research at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He is also Visiting Research Professor in History and Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast
Dr. Seiichi Suzuki (Visiting Research Fellow 1994-5) is a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina, for 2012-13, working on a book entitled The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry.
Dr. Lorna Burns (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-11) has recently been appointed to a lectureship in Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of St. Andrews. Many congratulations to her.
Dr. Peta Mitchell‘s book Contagious Metaphor will be published by Continuum in the autumn of 2012. Details at http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=157192&Subject2Id=1024. Peta was a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH in 2009.