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Members of the Network

Network Director

The Network Director is Professor Alison Jack.

Alison Jack studied English Literature and Language and then Divinity at Edinburgh University. She is currently Professor of Bible and Literature at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh and Principal of New College. Her most recent publication is The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature: Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings (Oxford: OUP, 2019). She is currently researching the role of the Bible in the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop and Norman MacCaig.

Professor Alison Jack

Professor of Bible and Literature and Principal of New College

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Steering Group

The Steering Group comprises Dr Jack, Dr Linden Bicket, Professor Penny Fielding, Dr Michael Fuller, Professor David Jasper, Dr Steve Sutcliffe and Ms Lois Wilson.

Linden Bicket

Linden Bicket is Lecturer in Literature and Religion in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Her research interests include patterns of faith and scepticism in modern literature, and she is currently researching the work of women Catholic writers, including Elizabeth Jennings, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Thomas Ellis.

Dr Linden Bicket

Lecturer in Literature and Religion

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Penny Fielding

Penny Fielding is Grierson Professor of English Literature and has published widely on nineteenth-century Scottish Literature.  Her current project on fiction and secrecy includes ideas of the secret in Scottish religious thought.

Prof Penny Fielding

Grierson Professor of English Literature

  • English Literature
  • School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

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Michael Fuller

Michael Fuller is a Lecturer in Science and Religion at New College, University of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Canon of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. Formerly a research chemist, he has published widely in the field of science and religion, and has also written papers on theology and music, and theology and Russian literature. He is Vice-President for Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology, and a past Chair of the Science and Religion Forum.

Dr Michael Fuller

Lecturer in Science and Religion, New College, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Canon of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh

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David Jasper

David Jasper is Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow, where he was formerly Professor of Literature and Theology. An honorary professorial fellow in the University of Edinburgh, he is also Canon Theologian of St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. He was the founding editor of the Oxford journal of Literature and Theology and for many years the Changjiang Chair Professor in Renmin University of China, Beijing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Professor David Jasper

Emeritus Professor, University of Glasgow; Canon Theologian, St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow

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Steven Sutcliffe

Dr Steven Sutcliffe is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion in the School of Divinity. He has published widely on new spiritualities and 'life reform' currents in the Twentieth Century. He is currently researching the transnational networks of the Scottish journalist and vegetarian campaigner, Dugald Semple (1884-1964), and the visionary fiction of the Anglo-Scottish writer, David Lindsay (1876-1945).

Dr Steven Sutcliffe

Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion

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Lois Wilson

Lois Wilson is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Her research is in feminist re-vision of biblical myth in speculative fiction from 1970 to the present, with a particular focus on themes of creation and apocalypse.

Lois Wilson

PhD candidate

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Erik Tonning

Erik Tonning is Professor of English in NLA University College, Norway, Professor II of English in the University of Bergen, Norway, and an Honorary Fellow of the School of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Samuel Beckett’s Abstract Drama (2007), Modernism and Christianity (2014), and a number of articles and edited volumes on literary modernism, including the forthcoming The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959. He is Senior Editor of two book series from Bloomsbury Academic, ‘Historicizing Modernism and ‘Modernist Archives’. His current work is on inventions of the secular in modernism, focusing on the long-range influence of nominalism and voluntarism.

Professor Erik Tonning

Professor of English in NLA University College, Professor II of English in the University of Bergen, Honorary Fellow of the School of Divinity

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