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: Friday 1.30-2.30pm
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
- Reading Science Fiction. 3MA Spring option
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
Simon’s current research interests focus on the relationship between science, literature and society from the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century to the present; science fiction; and the literature, culture and politics of the Restoration period. In the past, he has also worked on Romanticism, continental philosophy, literary theory, postmodernism, and drama and theatre. He would be happy to discuss potential projects with research students wishing to work in these areas.
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‘We have come to Mars for good’: Science fiction, sovereignty and the challenges of liberty
(14 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192897985.003.0013
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
The new McWorld order: Postmodernism and corporate globalization
(15 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108887915.010
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
'In no one Thing, they saw, agreeing': Communicating experimental philosophy in Cowley and Butler
(25 pages)
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) -
Scotland in Space: Creative Visions and Critical Reflections on Scotland's Space Futures
(182 pages)
Research output: › Anthology (Published) -
Tragedy
(9 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Historicism
(11 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203520796-14
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory
(360 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203520796
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Thomas Pynchon
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Postmodernism
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
'Jean-Francois Lyotard' and 'Modernity/Postmodernity'
(11 pages)
Entries for Blacwells Encyclopaedia › Other contribution (Published)