Personal Chair
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- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
Timothy C. Baker is Personal Chair in Scottish and Contemporary Literature. He received an AB in Cognitive Science from Vassar College in 1999 and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2007. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities from 2007-08, and joined the University of Aberdeen in 2009. His research and teaching spans a wide range of topics, including environmental humanities, queer theory, and theories of community.
Reading My Mother Back: A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories
An innovative memoir connecting ideas of grief, memory, and animals to illustrate the importance of storytelling.
External Memberships
Scottish Universities International Summer School, Board Member
External examiner: University of Edinburgh
Latest Publications
Queer Nostalgia and Island Time in J.M. Barrie and Compton Mackenzie
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-21Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPagelarking: Beachcombing, Mudlarking, and Textuality
Green Letters, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 438-451Contributions to Journals: ArticlesContemporary and Post-Modern Scotland
A Companion to Scottish Literature. Carruthers, G. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 140-151, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersEcocriticism
Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction. Hall, A. (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 37-61, 25 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersReview: Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles: Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures by Caroline Magennis, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, vol. 10, no. 2Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
- Research
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Research Overview
Professor Baker specialises in Scottish and contemporary literature (primarily fiction, but poetry and creative nonfiction too!). He is the author of five books: George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community (2009), Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition (2014), Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction (2019), New Forms of Environmental Writing: Gleaning and Fragmentation (2022) and Reading My Mother Back: A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories (2022). Other research and teaching interests include genre and space in twentieth-century women's fiction, climate change and environmental crisis, and contemporary posthuman, queer, and feminist theories. Recent and forthcoming articles and papers include discussions of queer temporality in school detective fiction, ecocriticism and the body, and community in Scottish fiction, and studies of authors such as Michel Faber, Dorothy K. Haynes, and Muriel Spark. Current PhD supervision includes projects on ecofeminism, literary animal studies, the Scottish literary renaissance, autism in literature, contemporary Gothic, and Kazuo Ishiguro. He welcomes inquiries from potential research students interested in working in related areas, particularly projects on contemporary and experimental literature, ecocriticism, animal studies, and queer studies.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in English.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- English Literature
- Women's Studies
- Scottish Literature
- North American Literature Studies
- Environmentalism
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
Professor Baker's most recent book-length projects are a monograph on ideas of gleaning and fragmentation in contemporary environmental writing and a memoir focused on children's animal stories. He is also working on shorter projects on ecocriticism, community, and utopia, with an increasing interest in the blue humanities. He is co-editing The Routledge Companion to Scottish Literature.
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: English.
Completed PhD Supervision:
Sarinah O'Donoghue, 'Narrating Autism: New Critical and Theoretical Directions for Reading Narratives of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Movement' (2023)
Graham Stephen, 'Planting the Heathery Streak: JB Salmond's The Scots Magazine, BBC Radio 2BD, and Scottish National and Local Identity, 1923-1948' (2022)
Pimpawan Chaipanit, ‘A Spatial Analysis of British Women’s Domestic Fiction from Jane Austen to Helen Fielding’ (2019)
Hyginus Eze, 'Social Space in Third-Generation Nigerian Novels’ (2019)
Rebecca Langworthy, 'Genre and Audience: The Development of Adult Fantasy in the Work of George MacDonald' (2018)
Rachel Smillie, 'The Lady Vanishes: Women Writers and the Development of Detective Fiction' (2014)
Brenda Ebersole, 'The Novels of Barbara Kingsolver: A Case Study in Transnational American Literature' (2014)
Current PhD Students:
Angela Docherty
Ines Kirschner
Sam McReavy
Chomploen Pimphakorn
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Queer Nostalgia and Island Time in J.M. Barrie and Compton Mackenzie
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-21Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPagelarking: Beachcombing, Mudlarking, and Textuality
Green Letters, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 438-451Contributions to Journals: ArticlesContemporary and Post-Modern Scotland
A Companion to Scottish Literature. Carruthers, G. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 140-151, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersEcocriticism
Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction. Hall, A. (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 37-61, 25 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersReview: Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles: Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures by Caroline Magennis, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, vol. 10, no. 2Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesStrange Allegiance:: Ian Macpherson's Wild Harbour
The Bottle ImpContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesIncomers and Settlers: Nomadism and Entanglement in Contemporary Scottish Fiction
Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit. Upstone, S., Ely, P. (eds.). 1st edition. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 67-85, 19 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersReading My Mother Back: A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories
Goldsmiths Press. 168 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksNew Forms of Environmental Writing: Gleaning and Fragmentation
Bloomsbury Academic, London. 256 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksMapping Escape: Geography and Genre
Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New. Pittin-Hédon, M., Manfredi, C., Hames, S. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, pp. 123-140, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersA Different World: Dorothy K. Haynes’s Domestic Horror
Gothic Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 70-83Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Gender Politics of Trees
Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel. Liebermann, Y., Rahn, J., Burger, B. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 169-186, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79442-2_9
‘Not at all afraid’: Queer Temporality and the School Detective Story
Crime Fiction Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 137-153Contributions to Journals: Articles"House full of mouses": Genre, Language, and Creaturely Ethics
Michel Faber: Critical Essays. Langworthy, R., Lindfield-Ott, K., Macpherson, J. (eds.). gylphi, pp. 15-31, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersCompanion Animals in Contemporary Scottish Women's Gothic
Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out. Makala, M. E., Heholt, R. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 291-306, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34540-2_18
Fear and Pity, Pity and Fear: Rereading Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat in the Age of #MeToo
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 49-64Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPerpetual Vanishing: Animal Lives in Contemporary Scottish Fiction
Humanities, vol. 8, no. 1, 12Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010012
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Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Palgrave Macmillan. 242 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03880-9
Autobiografiction
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction. O'Gorman, D., Eaglestone, R. (eds.). 1 edition. Routledge, pp. 48-56, 9 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315880235
The Ghost Story in Scotland
The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. Brewster, S., Thurston, L. (eds.). 1st edition. Routledge, pp. 188-196, 9 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315644417-20
“Oh, my dog owns me”: Interspecies Companionship in Dodie Smith and Diana Wynne Jones
The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 344-360Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2017.0031
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Harmonic Monads: Reading Contemporary Scottish Fiction through the Enlightenment
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 95-113Contributions to Journals: Articles'To Bring Profoundest Sympathy': Jenkins and Community
The Fiction of Robin Jenkins: Some Kind of Grace. Bicket, L., Gifford, D. (eds.). Brill, pp. 51-66, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004342491_005
Crime novel His Bloody Project put Scottish writing back in the spotlight
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesCrime novel His Bloody Project put Scottish writing back in the spotlight – here is what’s next
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesNew Frankensteins; or, the Body Politic
Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Davison, C. M., Germana, M. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, pp. 195-207, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSecond Time Round: Fugal Memory in Ciaran Carson’s For All We Know
Review of Irish Studies in Europe , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-17Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWriting Scotland's Future: Speculative Fiction and the National Imagination
Studies In Scottish Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 248-266Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Lonely Island: Exile and Community in Recent Island Writing
Community in Modern Scottish Literature. Lyall, S. (ed.). Brill, pp. 25-42, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_003
The Short Story in Scotland: From Oral Tale to Dialectal Style
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story. Head, D. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 202-218, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711712.013
A Scots Quair and History
The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Lyall, S. (ed.). ASLS, pp. 47-59, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters'An Orderly Rabble': Plural Identities in Jizzen
Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work. Falconer, R. (ed.). Edinburgh University Press, pp. 62-70, 9 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersContemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. 226 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksNorthern Stories: The Arctic in Contemporary Scottish Gothic
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 21-36Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCatherine Sinclair, Domestic Community, and the Catholic Imagination
Studies in the Novel, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 143-160Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.jstor.org/stable/41955655
Individual Doubt in George MacDonald's English Novels
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 105-129Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCollecting Islands: Compton Mackenzie and The Four Winds of Love
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 85-106Contributions to Journals: ArticlesScottish Utopian Fiction and the Invocation of God
Journal of Utopian Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 91-117Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/utp.0.0009
'Something Secret and Still': Silence in the Poetry of Eamon Grennan
Mosaic: A Journal for the Comparative Study of Literature, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 45-62Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Art of Losing: The Place of Death in Writer's Memoirs
Life Writing: Essays on Autobiography, Biography and Literature. Bradford, R. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 219-233, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe (Neuro)-Aesthetics of Caricature: Representations of Reality in Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park
Poetics Today, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 471-515Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2009-003
George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 192 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksIan Macpherson's Writing of the Disaster
International Review of Scottish Studies, vol. 33, pp. 61-86Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Whole is the Untrue: Experience and Community in The Sluts
Dennis Cooper: Writing at the Edge. Hegarty, P., Kennedy, D. (eds.). Sussex Academic Press, pp. 52-67, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters