Simon Malpas
Senior Lecturer
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3596
- Email: Simon.Malpas@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 2.15
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hour: Tuesday 11.30-12.30
Background
Before joining the English Literature department in 2004, Simon taught English at Manchester Metropolitan University. He took his first degree in Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham before moving to Cardiff University to complete an MA in Critical and Cultural Theory and a PhD on time and aesthetics in English Romantic poetry, German Idealist philosophy and contemporary critical theory.
Undergraduate teaching
- The Body in Literature. 3MA Autumn option
- Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature. 4MA Autumn option
- Contemporary Science Fiction. 4MA Spring option
- Contemporary British Drama. 4MA Spring option
Research summary
Simon’s research interests include Romanticism, continental philosophy, literary theory, postmodernism, and the literature, culture and politics of the Restoration period. As well as these areas, he has also supervised postgraduate research in Victorian and modernist literature, contemporary drama and science fiction. He would be happy to discuss potential projects with research students wishing to work in any of these areas.
Research activities
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'In no one thing, they saw, agreeing' : Communicating experimental philosophy in Cowley and Butler
In:
Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700
Contribution to journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
co-editor of the second edition of The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory
(Published) -
Thomas Pynchon
Book/Report › Book (Published) -
Tragedy
(8 pages)
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Published) -
'Jean-Francois Lyotard' and 'Modernity/Postmodernity'
(11 pages)
(Published) -
Postmodernism
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
The End of the World Picture : Lyotard, Technology and the Human
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Published) -
Fractured Transcendence: Finitude, Aesthetics and the Dissolution of Art
(19 pages)
In:
Theory@Buffalo, no. 11, pp. 77-96
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Form, Reflection, Disclosure: Literary Aesthetics and Contemporary Criticism
(11 pages)
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Published)