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Dr Timothy Baker

Dr Timothy Baker

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I am currently accepting PhDs in English.

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Dr Timothy Baker
Dr Timothy Baker

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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.                                         

Research

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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

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  • "House full of mouses": Genre, Language, and Creaturely Ethics

    Baker, T. C.

    Michel Faber. Langworthy, R., Lindfield-Ott, K., Macpherson, J. (eds.). gylphi, pp. 15-31, 17 pages

    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Companion Animals in Contemporary Scottish Women's Gothic

    Baker, T. C.

    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

  • Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

    Baker, T. C.

    Palgrave Macmillan. 242 pages

    Books and Reports: Books

    Digital Object Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03880-9

  • Autobiografiction

    Baker, T. C.

    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

  • The Ghost Story in Scotland

    Baker, T. C.

    The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. Brewster, S., Thurston, L. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 188-196, 9 pages

    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 'To Bring Profoundest Sympathy': Jenkins and Community

    Baker, T. C.

    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

  • New Frankensteins; or, the Body Politic

    Baker, T. C.

    Scottish Gothic. Davison, C. M., Germana, M. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, pp. 195-207, 13 pages

    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

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