Alexandra Lawrie
Senior Lecturer
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 8968
- Email: Alex.Lawrie@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 3.06
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office hour: Tuesday, 12-1
Background
Dr. Lawrie completed her PhD (on the rise of English in extramural institutions during the fin de siècle) from the University in Edinburgh in March 2012. Her research and teaching is mainly focused on contemporary British and American fiction, and she would be interested in supervising PhD students with topics in that area.
Undergraduate teaching
- Modern American Novel (4th-year core)
- Twenty-First-Century Fiction (4th-year option)
- The American Novel 1970-2010 (4th-year core)
- Critical Practice: Prose (lectures)
- English Literature 2 (lectures and tutorials)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
My primary research interests are in contemporary British and American fiction. I have published articles in journals including the Journal of American Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, Literature and History, Cambridge Quarterly. My second book, titled "Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction", was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2022.
Current research interests
My next book, also with EUP, is titled "The American Presidency in Twenty-First-Century Fiction", and includes chapters on A. M. Homes, Colson Whitehead, Ben Lerner, and Nathan Hill.Project activity
My current book project, contracted to Edinburgh University Press, is titled "The American Presidency in Twenty-First-Century Fiction." It focuses on how post-war presidential history is narrated in a group of contemporary American novels.
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"The lost boys of privilege": Triangulation and the end of history in Ben Lerner's The Topeka School
In:
Journal of Modern Literature
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Writing the Past in Twenty-first-century American Fiction
(200 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474463461
Research output: › Book (Published) -
“An experiment in optimism was coming to an end”: Gift exchange and giftedness in two novels of the Occupy era
(25 pages)
In:
Journal of American Studies, vol. 56, pp. 267-291
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875821000827
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The essay and the rise of university English
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
The BBC, group listening, and ‘The Changing World’
In:
Media History, vol. 25, pp. 279-291
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2019.1623664
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Richard G. Moulton
Research output: › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary (Published) -
Who's listening to modernism? BBC features and audience response
(13 pages)
In:
Media History, vol. 24, pp. 239-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2018.1471348
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
David Masson, pedagogical reform, and the Victorian novel
(16 pages)
In:
Nineteenth-Century Prose, vol. 43, pp. 211-226
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
‘The appreciative understanding of good books’: The listener, literary advice and the 1930s reader
(15 pages)
In:
Literature & History, vol. 24, pp. 38-52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.24.2.3
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Arthur Quiller-Couch, taste formation and the new reading public
(17 pages)
In:
The Cambridge Quarterly, vol. 43, pp. 195-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfu010
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)