In partnership with Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, with additional support from SUISS’s affiliated universities, we announced the recipients of the 2023 Edwin Morgan Scholarships in May 2023. The scholarships, which cover course and accommodation fees for students to attend the two-week Scottish Literature course at SUISS this August, are awarded to early-career academics from the UK and abroad who do not have Scottish Literature courses at their home universities but who have demonstrated a committed interest in the subject. The Scholars participate in a wide-ranging academic and cultural programme and have the chance to engage face-to-face with locally based writers.
The 2023 Edwin Morgan Scholars:
About the Edwin Morgan Scholars
Laura Aldeguer Pardo, University of Oviedo. Laura’s BA thesis focused on “Strange(r)ness in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet” and her MA thesis looked at post-referendum narratives in the work of Ali Smith. She has recently begun a PhD on gender and diversity in Contemporary Scottish Literature.
Marthe-Siobhán Hecke, University of Bonn. Marthe-Siobhán’s PhD thesis is on Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance. She is currently establishing a Scottish Studies course at her home institution and is a Scottish Gaelic learner of eight years.
Daisy Li, Macau Polytechnic University. Daisy is a Professor of Translation Studies and has recently received funding from her university to investigate Chinese translations of Edwin Morgan, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Hugh MacDiarmid and Nan Shepherd. Daisy has produced three papers on Hugh MacDiarmid: the first one is on the translation and reception of MacDiarmid’s poetry, the second one on the representations of China in his poetry and the third one (in Portuguese) on his social network .
it was an immense pleasure to be invited to present a paper to a board of academics from the SUISS Affiliated Universities alongside the other Edwin Morgan Trust Scholars. At the individual level, sharing the first project on Scottish literature on which I had worked was an honour. However, the experience acquired a collective magnitude as I realised us EMT scholars were sharing works which had each originated in distant parts of the world, but which were all meant to culminate right there and then: in Scotland.
Laura Aldergeur Pardo
The author readings were also absolutely wonderful. It was amazing that we could just interact with two well-known and influential Scottish authors in such a small group – it was quite intimate and not as intimidating as I thought. James Robertson’s voice has a ‘rent free space’ in my head now when reading some of his works and A.L. Kennedy was an absolute banger, honestly. She is so incredibly funny and weird and knowledgeable, I did not want the event to end, at all.
Laura Aldergeur Pardo
I take back to Macao many precious memories, and a rich store of friendships and experiences that I know will, definitely, deepen my understanding and appreciation of the literatures of Scotland. I will certainly continue to work on Scottish literature and enthusiastically promote it both here in Macao and more broadly in China.
Daisy Li
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