Dr Matthew McGuire
Biography
Dr Matt McGuire was born in Belfast and gained his MA, MSc and PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Before coming to UWS he was a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on various aspects of Irish and Scottish Literature, contemporary fiction and crime writing. His debut novel, Dark Dawn, was published by Constable Robinson and is coming out in April 2012.
Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
Irish Literature, Scottish Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Crime Writing
Selected Publications
Books
Contemporary Scottish Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edited Collections
The Everyman Book of Irish Poems. Random House, 2011.
The Collected Poems of Iain Crichton Smith. Carcanet, 2011.
with Colin Nicholson, The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry. EUP, 2009.
Fiction
Dark Dawn. Constable Robinson, 2012.
‘Brixton’ in Newleaf 22, 2007.
‘Clearances’ in Newleaf 23, 2008.
Journal Articles
‘James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner and the Romantic Roots of Crime Fiction’. Forthcoming from Clues 2012.
‘Shaking the Hand of History: Northern Irish literature in the Twenty-first Century’ Eurozine (2007).
Translated into German and re-published as ‘Händeschütteln mit der Geschichte’ Wespenest 152, 2008, pp.16-20.
‘A Terrible Beauty: Bernard MacLaverty and the Short Story of the Troubles’ in Edinburgh Review 120, 2007, pp.17-26.
‘Dialect(ic) Nationalism?: the Fiction of James Kelman and Roddy Doyle’ Scottish Studies Review, 7.2, Aut 2006, pp.80-94.
Book Chapters
‘Irvine Welsh: the Novels’ in Berthold Schoene (ed), The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh. EUP, 2010.
‘Robert McLiam Wilson’ in Brian Schaffer (ed), The Encyclopaedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Blackwell, 2010.
‘Hope, History and Rhyme: Twenty-First Century Northern Irish Poetry’ in Paddy Lyons and Alison Younger (ed), No Country for Old Men. Peter Lang, 2009, pp.87-102.
‘Kathleen Jamie’s Poetics’ in Matt McGuire and Colin Nicholson (ed), The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry. EUP, 2008, pp.141-153.
‘Cultural Devolutions: Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Return of the Postmodern’ in Berthold Schoene (ed), The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. EUP, 2007, pp.310-18.
‘“That’s class”: Dialect in Contemporary Northern Irish Fiction’ in Eadaoin Agnew, Eamonn Hughes, Caroline Magennis and Christina Morin (ed), A Further Shore: Essays in Irish and Scottish Studies. Aberdeen University Press, 2007, pp.117-24.
‘Glasgow and Belfast: Capitals of Culture?’ in Beyond the Anchoring Grounds: More Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies. Clo Ollscoil na Banriona, 2006, pp.210-17.
Reviews
James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy (Edinburgh Review, 2009).
Des Dillon, They Scream When You Kill Them (Edinburgh Review, 2007).
David Robb, Auld Campaigner: the Life of Alexander Scott (Edinburgh Review, 2007).
James McGonigal and Kirsten Stirling (eds), Ethically Speaking: Voice and Values in Modern Scottish Writing (SSR, 2007).
Tom Leonard, Access to the Silence (SSR, 2006).
Michael Gardiner, From Trocchi to Trainspotting: Scottish Critical Theory Since 1960 (Edinburgh Review, 2006).
Bernard MacLaverty, Matters of Life & Death (Edinburgh Review, 2006).
