Article
Shaw M (2022) Contested Cosmopolitanism: William and Elizabeth A. Sharp's Glasgow Herald Reviews of the Paris Salons 1884-1900. Studies in Scottish Literature, 48 (1), pp. 37-47. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2022.48.1.5
Dr Michael Shaw
Lecturer in Scottish Literature
English Studies University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA
About me
About me
I was born in Stirling, raised in nearby Tullibody, and spent a fair bit of my childhood chasing ducks around the university campus. I returned to Stirling in 2019, joining the university as Lecturer in Scottish Literature, having previously held posts at the Universities of Kent and Glasgow.
My research focuses on Scottish literature and art in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, with a particular emphasis on the 1890s. My monograph, The Fin-de-Siècle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), explores the ways in which dissident fin-de-siècle styles and ideas were embraced by Scottish writers and artists hoping to develop a comparable cultural revival to the Irish Literary Revival. In 2015, the PhD project that this monograph developed from was awarded the Ross Roy Medal for Excellence in Research in Scottish Literature, judged by the Universities’ Committee for Scottish Literature.
In 2020, I completed an edition of literary correspondence between Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie (Sandstone Press, 2020). This project began in 2016, when I held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Beinecke Library, Yale University.
I am currently CI on the RSE-funded project, 'The Scottish Revival Network' (PI: Dr Scott Lyall, Napier). Between 2019 and 2020, I was CI on another RSE-funded project, 'Scottish Cosmopolitanism at the Fin de Siècle' (PI: Dr Matthew Creasy, Glasgow). I am Director of the Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies and, from 2016-18, I served on the advisory board of the AHRC Popular Occulture in Britain 1875-1947 network.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Current PhD Supervisees
Elaine Morrison-Jures, No Handmaid’s Tale: A Critical Study of the Life and Work of Helen Burness Cruickshank
Isla Macfarlane, Books, Borrowers and Visitors at the Library of Innerpeffray, 1855-1897
University Contribution
Best Early Career Researcher - Research Culture Awards 2020 (nominated)
Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities - RATE Awards 2022 (nominated)
Research
Scottish & Irish literature
Victorian & Edwardian literature
aestheticism and decadence
the Celtic Revival
queer history
Robert Louis Stevenson
literary correspondence
political poetry
Outputs (12)
Outputs
Book Review
Moulding a Persona: The Life and Letters of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod
Shaw M (2021) Moulding a Persona: The Life and Letters of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod. Review of: William F. Halloran, ed., The Life and Letters of William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod,” volume 3: 1900-1905 (London: Open Book Publishers, 2020). Pp. x + 471. ISBN: 978-1-80064-007-8. Studies in Scottish Literature, 47 (1), pp. 178-181. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2290&context=ssl
Edited Book
A Friendship in Letters: Robert Louis Stevenson & J. M. Barrie
Shaw M (ed.) (2020) A Friendship in Letters: Robert Louis Stevenson & J. M. Barrie. Inverness: Sandstone Press. https://sandstonepress.com/books/a-friendship-in-letters
Book Chapter
Shaw M (2020) Fin-de-Siècle Scotland. In: The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Monograph
The Fin-de-Siècle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity
Shaw M (2019) The Fin-de-Siècle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Book Chapter
Decadence and the Urban Sensibility
Shaw M (2019) Decadence and the Urban Sensibility. In: Desmarais J & Weir D (eds.) Decadence and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 82-97.
Article
Whim and Whipping: Satire and the Great Reform Act in Scottish Periodical Poetry
Shaw M (2018) Whim and Whipping: Satire and the Great Reform Act in Scottish Periodical Poetry. Scottish Literary Review, 10 (2), pp. 1-25. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/707794
Book Chapter
Theosophy in Scotland: Oriental Occultism and National Identity
Shaw M (2017) Theosophy in Scotland: Oriental Occultism and National Identity. In: Ferguson C & Radford A (eds.) The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 23-40.
Book Chapter
Aestheticism and Decadence in Patrick Geddes's Socioeconomics
Shaw M (2017) Aestheticism and Decadence in Patrick Geddes's Socioeconomics. In: Parkins W (ed.) Victorian Sustainability in Literature and Culture. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 165-179.
Article
Shaw M (2016) Transculturation and Historicisation: New Directions for the Study of Scottish Literature c.1840–1914. Literature Compass, 13 (8), pp. 501-510. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12326
Book Chapter
Before the Rising: Home Rule and the Celtic Revival
Shaw M (2016) Before the Rising: Home Rule and the Celtic Revival. In: Maley W (ed.) Scotland and the Easter Rising: Fresh Perspectives on 1916. Edinburgh: Luath Press, pp. 174-178. https://www.luath.co.uk/history/scotland-and-the-easter-rising-fresh-perspectives-on-1916
Book Chapter
William Sharp's Neo-Paganism: Queer Identity and the National Family
Shaw M (2015) William Sharp's Neo-Paganism: Queer Identity and the National Family. In: Dau D & Preston S (eds.) Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature, 15. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 77-96. https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Victorian-Families-Curious-Relations-in-Literature-1st-Edition/Dau-Preston/p/book/9781138792456
Teaching
Teaching
In the 2021-22 academic year, I will be teaching the following modules:
ENGU9T1: Oscar Wilde and the Decadents (convenor)
ENGU9WH: Scotland and Empire (convenor)
ENGU9HC: British Literature 1700-1830 (convenor)
ENGU9A1: Introduction to Literary Studies: Genre
ENGU903: Literary Revolutions
ENGU9HD: Victorian Literature and Culture
ENGU9DP: Dissertation Preparation
ENGU9A8: English Studies Dissertation