Simon Malpas

Senior Lecturer

English Literature
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3596
Email: Simon.Malpas@ed.ac.uk
Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile

Street: Room 2.15
50 George Square
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9LH

Office Hour: Thursday 11.30-12.30

Biography

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.

Teaching & PhD supervision

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
Reading Science Fiction. 3MA Spring option

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Publications

'In no one thing, they saw, agreeing' : Communicating experimental philosophy in Cowley and Butler 10 May 2019 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 2013
(Published)
Thomas Pynchon 2013
Book/Report › Book (Published)
Tragedy (8 pages) 2010
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Published)
'Jean-Francois Lyotard' and 'Modernity/Postmodernity' (11 pages) 2010
(Published)
Postmodernism 2010
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)
The End of the World Picture : Lyotard, Technology and the Human 2009
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Published)
Fractured Transcendence: Finitude, Aesthetics and the Dissolution of Art (19 pages) 2007 In: Theory@Buffalo, no. 11, pp. 77-96
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Form, Reflection, Disclosure: Literary Aesthetics and Contemporary Criticism (11 pages) 2006
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Published)

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This article was published on 26 Jan, 2020