Association for Scottish Literary Studies
The Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) is a Scottish educational charity,[1] founded in 1970 to promote and support the teaching, study and writing of Scottish literature. Its founding members included the Scottish literary scholar Matthew McDiarmid (1914–1996). Originally based at the University of Aberdeen, it moved to its current home within the University of Glasgow in 1996. In November 2015, ASLS was allocated £40,000 by the Scottish Government to support its work providing teacher training and classroom resources for schools.[2]
ASLS's main field of activity is publishing, and the organisation is a member of Publishing Scotland.[3]
Publications
Periodicals
ASLS produces
Books
Annual Volumes
Since 1971 ASLS has republished a number of
International Companions to Scottish Literature
In 2015, ASLS launched the International Companions to Scottish Literature series, co-edited by Ian Brown and Thomas Owen Clancy.[6] Titles in the series to date include The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon,[7] The International Companion to Edwin Morgan,[8] The International Companion to Scottish Poetry,[9] The International Companion to James Macpherson and The Poems of Ossian,[10] The International Companion to John Galt,[11] The International Companion to Scottish Literature 1400–1650,[12] The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century,[13] and The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature.[14]
New Writing Scotland
Since its first issue in 1983, many contemporary Scottish writers have had early work published in ASLS's annual
Occasional Papers
The ASLS Occasional Papers series publishes essays and
Scotnotes
ASLS publishes the Scotnotes series of study guides to Scottish writers and their literary works. There are currently thirty-nine titles in this series, on authors ranging from late medieval poets such as William Dunbar and Robert Henryson to contemporary writers such as Iain Banks, Liz Lochhead and Ian Rankin.[34]
Other titles
In May 2010, in partnership with the
In June 2011, with financial support from the Gaelic Books Council, ASLS published a new edition of Sorley MacLean's An Cuilithionn/The Cuillin.[36]
In February 2013, ASLS hosted the inaugural Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship, set up by Creative Scotland "to enable a writer to take time out of their usual environment to embark upon a year-long literary adventure to develop their practice".[37] Kirsty Logan was selected to be the first recipient of the Fellowship,[38] and on 10 August 2015 ASLS published her collection of short stories A Portable Shelter.[39]
In June 2023, ASLS published two volumes of plays by Michel Tremblay, translated into Scots by Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay.[40][41]
Exhibitions
From 2004 to 2019, ASLS mounted the Scottish Writing Exhibition at the Modern Language Association of America's annual conventions in the United States.[42] In August 2008 the Scottish Writing Exhibition was on display at the biannual European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) conference in Aarhus in Denmark.
Presidents
A number of literary scholars have held the presidency of the ASLS:
- John MacQueen (1970–1973)
- Tom Dunn (1973–1976)
- Alexander Scott (1976–1979)
- David Daiches[43] (1979–1984)
- Tom Crawford (1984–1989)
- Maurice Lindsay[44] (1989–1993)
- John Blackburn (1993–1994)
- David Robb (1994–1998)[45]
- Dorothy McMillan (1998–2002)
- Alan MacGillivray (2002–2006)
- Alan Riach (2006–2010)
- Ian Brown (2010–2015)
- Alison Lumsden (2015–2019)
- David Goldie (2019–)
Awards
To date, two ASLS Annual Volumes have won
In 2011, the ASLS's edition of Sorley MacLean's An Cuilithionn/The Cuillin, edited by Christopher Whyte, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year award.[47]
Also in 2011, along with VisitScotland and the University of Glasgow, the ASLS co-produced Literary Scotland: A Traveller's Guide.[48] In October 2011, this publication won the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Scotland Gold Award for Best Publication.[49]
In 2021, the ASLS Annual Volume Dràma na Gàidhlig: Ceud Bliadhna air an Àrd-ùrlar / A Century of Gaelic Drama, edited by Michelle Macleod, won the Gaelic Books Council Donald Meek Award for Best Non-Fiction.[50]
See also
References
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- ^ "The International Companion to Edwin Morgan". ASLS. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ "The International Companion to Scottish Poetry". ASLS. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ "The International Companion to James Macpherson and The Poems of Ossian". ASLS. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ "The International Companion to John Galt". ASLS. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ "The International Companion to Scottish Literature 1400–1650". ASLS. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
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- ^ "The Lady of the Lake". ASLS. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
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- ^ "Kirsty Logan named inaugural Dr. Gavin Wallace Fellow". Creative Scotland. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
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- ^ "ASLS: Michel Tremblay: Plays in Scots volume 1". ASLS. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ "ASLS: Michel Tremblay: Plays in Scots volume 2". ASLS. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ "List of 2019 Exhibitors". MLA. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
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- ^ Riach, Alan (12 May 2009). "Obituary: Maurice Lindsay". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
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- ^ "The Saltire Society: 2011 Shortlist". Saltire Society. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ "Literary Scotland: A Traveller's Guide". ASLS. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ "Scotland: CIPR". CIPR. Archived from the original on 12 December 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ "The Gaelic Literature Awards 2021: The Winners". Gaelic Books Council. 22 September 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2021.