Senior Lecturer
I am currently accepting PhDs in English.
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Dr Timothy Baker Contact Details
- t.c.baker@abdn.ac.uk
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- The University of Aberdeen Taylor B14
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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. His research and teaching is centred on Scottish and contemporary literature; he has recently completed projects on Scottish Gothic and twenty-first-century animal fiction, while his current research is focused on representations of climate change and the natural world in contemporary women's writing.
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External Memberships and Affiliations
Scottish Universities International Summer School, Board Member
British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies, Elected Ordinary Member
External examiner: University of Glasgow, University of Lincoln, University of the Highlands and Islands.
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Research Areas
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Specialisms
- English Literature
- Environmentalism
- North American Literature Studies
- Scottish Literature
- Women's Studies
Research Overview
Dr Baker specialises in Scottish and contemporary literature (mainly fiction). He is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community (2009), Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition (2014), and Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction (2019). Other research and teaching interests include genre and space in twentieth-century women's fiction, climate change and the Anthropocene, and contemporary posthuman, queer, and feminist theories. Recent and forthcoming articles and papers include discussions of authors such as Elspeth Barker, Shirley Jackson, Dorothy K. Haynes, Michel Faber, Dodie Smith, Sara Baume, and Ian Stephen. Current and recent PhD supervision includes projects on George MacDonald, Barbara Kingsolver, Nan Shepherd, feminist science fiction, third-generation Nigerian fiction, American suburban Gothic, and contemporary nature writing. He welcomes inquiries from potential research students interested in working in any of these areas, or connected areas; he is especially interested in supervising projects on contemporary and experimental literature (including poetry), mid-twentieth-century British fiction, and modern Scottish literature.
Current Research
Dr Baker's current research interests include projects on emotion in children's animal stories, representations of climate change and the natural environment in contemporary women's writing, and twentieth-century school stories.
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: English.
Completed PhD Supervision:
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:
Christina Connors
Ines Kirschner
Marlene Ferreira Simoes
Graham Stephen
- Teaching
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Courses
- EL1513 - Controversial Classics
- EL1536 - Rethinking Reading
- EL2512 - The Tragedy Of Knowledge
- EL35KN - Haunted Texts
- EL35WC - Queer Times
- EL4502 - English Dissertation
- EL4510 - Dissertation In Scottish Literature
- EL45KF - Vulnerable Bodies, Precarious Lives
- EL5095 - Creative Writing III: Non-Fiction
- EL50C5 - The Novel: Environments and Encounters
- EL5590 - Locations And Dislocations: The Role Of Place In Literature
- EL5598 - Approaching Literature 2
- EL55C2 - Writing the Self
- FS5022 - Research Methods in Film and Visual Culture
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Publications
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"House full of mouses": Genre, Language, and Creaturely Ethics
Michel Faber. Langworthy, R., Lindfield-Ott, K., Macpherson, J. (eds.). gylphi, pp. 15-31, 17 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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Companion 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 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
- Digital Object Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34540-2_18
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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. 49-64
Contributions to Journals: Articles
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Perpetual Vanishing: Animal Lives in Contemporary Scottish Fiction
Humanities, vol. 8, no. 1, 12
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Digital Object Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010012
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- http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11796/1/humanities_08_00012.pdf
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Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Palgrave Macmillan. 242 pages
Books and Reports: Books
- Digital Object Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03880-9
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Autobiografiction
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction. O'Gorman, D., Eaglestone, R. (eds.). 1 edition. Routledge, pp. 48-56, 9 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
- Digital Object Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315880235
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The Ghost Story in Scotland
The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. Brewster, S., Thurston, L. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 188-196, 9 pages
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“Oh, my dog owns me”: Interspecies Companionship in Dodie Smith and Diana Wynne Jones
The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 344-360
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Digital Object Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2017.0031
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- View publication in Scopus
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'To Bring Profoundest Sympathy': Jenkins and Community
The Fiction of Robin Jenkins. Bicket, L., Gifford, D. (eds.). Brill, pp. 51-66, 16 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
- Digital Object Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004342491_005
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New Frankensteins; or, the Body Politic
Scottish Gothic. Davison, C. M., Germana, M. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, pp. 195-207, 13 pages
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