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.
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Day-O’Connell (Visiting Research Fellow, 2009 and 2010) who was awarded tenure at Knox College in Spring 2011
Professor Russell Goodman (Nominated Fellow, 2009) has sent news of his some of his recent/forthcoming publications:
Congratulations to Dr. Martyn Pickersgill (Newby Trust Fellow 2010-11) whose book, co-edited with Ira Van Keulen, Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences (Emerald, 2011) has been shortlisted for the British Sociological Association’s Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2012. Martyn is currently Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics at the Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh. In November 2011 he became one of the first members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland.