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The Association for Scottish Literary Studies aims to promote the study, teaching and writing of Scottish literature, and to further the study of the languages of Scotland. ASLS maintains the Scottish Studies Database, a list of scholars currently working in Scottish literature, language, history and culture, with their research interests and institution. It is a searchable website designed to help academics in the field of Scottish Studies make and keep in contact with each other.
ASLS is an active academic publisher, whose serial titles include the peer-reviewed journals
Scottish Studies Review,
Scottish Language, and the online
International Journal of Scottish Literature. Issue 6 of
IJSL, Spring/Summer 2010, is now available online. ASLS's
New Writing Scotland is required reading if you're a
finger-on-the-pulse kind of new fiction person. NWS an annual volume publishing new and exciting poetry and prose from both emerging and
established writers. Every piece appears in print in NWS for the first time, and has been drawn from a wide
cross-section of Scottish culture and society.
ASLS also publish annual critical editions of Scottish literary works, available in the USA and Canada from IPG. Past titles include Voices From Their Ain Countrie: The Poems of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob (ed. Katherine Gordon), The Devil to Stage: Five Plays by James Bridie (ed. Gerard Carruthers), The Scotswoman at Home and Abroad: Non-Fiction Writing 1700-1900 (ed. Dorothy McMillan) and The Poems of William Dunbar 2 vols. (ed. Priscilla Bawcutt).
ASLS present three conferences in Scotland each year, the Annual Conference, the Languages Conference and the Schools Conference.
Benefits of Membership with ASLSMembership with ASLS entitles you to 2 x Scottish Studies Review, 1 x Scottish Language, 1 x New Writing Scotland, 2 x ScotLit newsletter, the Annual Volume (the critical edition for that year, as described above), and a 20% discount on all ASLS publications. Membership is open to individuals and institutions at very reasonable rates, so please visit the ASLS website to find out more or contact Duncan Jones at: ASLS c/o Department of Scottish Literature 7 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH Scotland, UK ph & fax: 0141 330 5309 email: office[@]asls.org.uk. |
About Us: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
