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: Tuesday 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
Contemporary British Drama. 4MA Spring option

Research

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.

Publications

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 Feb 15, 2019