Alan Riach

On 1st January 2001 Alan Riach returned to Scotland to take up a position as Reader in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Since 2003, he has held a Professorship in Scottish Literature and is currently Head of Department. He holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge, where he studied English as an undergraduate, and Glasgow, where he completed his doctorate in the Department of Scottish Literature. He worked in New Zealand from 1986 to December 2000. His critical writing has appeared in numerous books and journals in Britain and New Zealand. His books include Hugh MacDiarmid’s Epic Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 1991), and Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). His poetry has been published in numerous journals in Scotland, New Zealand and internationally.

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