Dr TIMOTHY BAKER
Lecturer
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 273777 |
| E-mail: | t.c.baker@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | Taylor B14 |
Biography
Timothy C. Baker 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.
Research interests
Dr Baker's research focuses on the representation of community and religion in Scottish fiction. He is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community (2009), and is currently working on two monographs, provisionally titled Being Many, Seeming One: Religion and Community in Scottish Fiction, 1808-1878 and Contemporary Scottish Gothic and the Work of Mourning. Other research interests include depictions of disaster in twentieth-century fiction, contemporary American poetry and fiction, Catholicism in Scottish literature, island literature, 1930s Romance revivalism, and the relation between fiction and literary memoir. Recent articles and conference papers include discussions of authors such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon and John Cowper Powys, Ciaran Carson, Jen Hadfield and J.O. Morgan, Catherine Sinclair, James Robertson, and John Burnside and Sarah Moss. Current PhD supervision includes projects on George MacDonald, Barbara Kingsolver, and contemporary Gothic fiction. He welcomes inquiries from potential research students interested in working in any of these areas, or connected areas.
Teaching Responsibilities
2012-13
EL1513 Controversial Classics (lectures)
EL2512 The Tragedy of Knowledge (convenor)
EL30IH States of Mind: Contemporary Irish and Scottish Writing (lectures)
EL35PQ Reading the Victorians (lectures)
LW3507 Modernism (lectures and seminars)
EL45KC Local Horror: The New Scottish Gothic (convenor)
EL48KC Justified Sins: Twentieth-Century Scottish Fictions (convenor)
EL5078 Rituals of Death (seminars)
EL5570 Dear Green Places: 20th-Century Irish and Scottish Fiction (convenor)
EL5572 Investigating Literature (seminars)
EL5576 Contemporary Women's Fiction (seminars)
Administrative Responsibilities: Library Representative (2009-present); Programme Co-ordinator for MLitt in Irish and Scottish Studies (2010-present); School Erasmus Co-ordinator (2012-present); School Postgraduate Research Officer (2012-present).
Selected Publications
Books:
George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
Articles and Book Chapters:
'The Romantic and the Real: James Leslie Mitchell and the Search for a Middle Way'. Journal of Modern Literature (2013) (In press).
'Catherine Sinclair, Domestic Community, and the Catholic Imagination'. Studies in the Novel (2013) (In press).
'Collecting Islands: Compton Mackenzie and The Four Winds of Love'. Scottish Literary Review 2.2 (2010): 85-106.
'Scottish Utopian Fiction and the Invocation of God'. Utopian Studies 21.1 (2010): 91-117.
'"Something Secret and Still": Silence in the Poetry of Eamon Grennan'. Mosaic 42.4 (2009): 45-62.
'The Art of Losing: The Place of Death in Writers' Memoirs'. Life Writing. Ed. Richard Bradford. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009: 219-233.
'The (Neuro)-Aesthetics of Caricature: Representations of Reality in Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park'. Poetics Today 30.3 (2009): 471-515.
'Ian Macpherson's Writing of the Disaster'. International Review of Scottish Studies 33 (2008): 61-86.
'The Whole is the Untrue: Experience and Community in The Sluts'. Dennis Cooper: Writing at the Edge. Ed. Paul Hegarty and Danny Kennedy. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2008: 52-67.
'George Mackay Brown's Greenvoe as Impossible Community'. Scottish Studies Review 8.1 (2007): 53-66.
'Praying to an Absent God: The Poetic Revealing of Simone Weil'. Culture, Theory and Critique 47.2 (2006): 133-147.
- Baker, TC. Collecting Islands, Article, 2010, Scottish Literary Review, 2, 2, pp85 - 106, ISSN/ISBN: 1756-5634
- Baker, TC. Scottish Utopian Fiction and the Invocation of God, Article, 2010, Journal of Utopian Studies, 21, 1, pp91 - 117, ISSN/ISBN: 0162-9786
- Baker, TC. 'Something Secret and Still', Article, 2009, Mosaic: A Journal for the Comparative Study of Literature, 42, 4, pp45 - 62, ISSN/ISBN: 0027-1276
- Baker, TC. George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community, Book, 2009
- Baker, TC. The (Neuro)-Aesthetics of Caricature, Article, 2009, Poetics Today, 30, 3, pp471 - 515, ISSN/ISBN: 0333-5372
- Baker, TC. The Art of Losing, Chapter, 2009, Life Writing, pp219 - 233
- Baker, TC. Ian Macpherson's Writing of the Disaster, Article, 2008, International Review of Scottish Studies, 33, pp61 - 86
- Baker, TC. The Whole is the Untrue, Chapter, 2008, Dennis Cooper, pp52 - 67