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

Research

Research summary

Simon’s research interests include Romanticism, continental philosophy, literary theory, postmodernism, the relationship between science and literature (including science fiction) from the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century to the present, and the literature, culture and politics of the Restoration period. He would be happy to discuss potential projects with research students wishing to work in any of these areas.

Publications

'In no one Thing, they saw, agreeing': Communicating experimental philosophy in Cowley and Butler (25 pages) 31 Jan 2020 In: Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 43, pp. 49-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/rst.2019.0012
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
The new McWorld order: Postmodernism and corporate globalisation 2020
Research output: › Chapter (Accepted/In press)
Scotland in Space: Creative Visions and Critical Reflections on Scotland's Space Futures (182 pages) 5 Nov 2019
Research output: › Anthology (Published)
Thomas Pynchon 2013
Research output: › Book (Published)
co-editor of the second edition of The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory 2013
The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory › Other contribution (Published)
Postmodernism 2010
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)
'Jean-Francois Lyotard' and 'Modernity/Postmodernity' (11 pages) 2010
Entries for Blacwells Encyclopaedia › Other contribution (Published)
Tragedy (8 pages) 2010
Research output: › Chapter (Published)
The End of the World Picture: Lyotard, Technology and the Human 2009
Research output: › Chapter (Published)
Fractured Transcendence: Finitude, Aesthetics and the Dissolution of Art (19 pages) 2007 In: Theory@Buffalo, pp. 77-96
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)

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This article was published on 5 May, 2021