Robert Wirth

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik > Sprachpraxis
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
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33098 Paderborn
- Aufsätze
"Committed Tuppence-worth: When Celebrities Dabble in Scottish Politics", Observatoire de la Société Britannique, 18 (L'engagement en Ecosse autour de l'enjeu de l'indépendance. ed. Edwige Camp-Pietrain and Gilles Leydier), 2016: 103-127. The essay is available online at: https://osb.revues.org/1826 .
"Cultural and Textual Appropriation in Alan Bissett's Boyracers", Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture 27.53 (Cultural Exchanges in Scottish Literature. ed. Martin Procházka and Petra Johana Poncarová), 2017: 101-122. The abstract is available at: http://litteraria-pragensia.ff.cuni.cz/front.issue/current-issue/
"His Bloody Deceptive Project: the Unjustified Confessions of Roderick Macrae", Crime, Punishment and the Scots. (forthcoming)
"Present and Absent Nostalgia in the 2014 Referendum", Journal of Scottish Thought 8 (If Scotland ...Conjecturing 2014. ed. Scott Hames and Adrian Hunter), 2016: 88-101.
"A Small Seasoning of Curry-Powder" in A.J. Cronin’s 'Hatter’s Castle', Imperial Middlebrow (forthcoming)
“Scotland: a Nation-State in Waiting”, Waiting as a Cultural Practice. ed. Christoph Singer, Olaf Berwald, and Robert Wirth. (forthcoming)
- Vorträge
"Nostalgia: The Elephant in the Room of the Scottish Independence Debate." Transcending Oppositions in Scottish Culture: A Symposium. Faculdade de Letras Universidade do Porto, Portugal. 2 June 2014.
"Heading towards an Unpredictable Past: Nostalgia in the Scottish Independence Debate." IF SCOTLAND. School of Arts & Humanities, Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies, Scotland. 23 August 2014.
"Committed Tuppence-worth: When Celebrities Dabble in Scottish Politics." Le 55e congrès de la Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur. l’Université de Toulon, France. 6 July 2015.
"Racing in the City: Spatial Relationships in Alan Bissett’s Boyracers." Place and Space in Scottish Literature and Culture. University of Gdańsk, Poland. 10 October 2015.
"His Bloody Deceptive Project: the Unjustified Confessions of Roderick Macrae." Le Crime, le Chatiment et les Ecossais/ Crime, Punishent and the Scots. Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, France. 15 January 2016.
"The Long Wait for the Nation-State: Past and Future Scotlands." Waiting as Cultural Practice: International and Interdisciplinary Conference. The University of Paderborn, Germany. 21 May 2016.
"Notions of India in A.J. Cronin’s Hatter’s Castle." Imperial Middlebrow: Cross-colonial encounters and expressions of power in middlebrow literature and culture, 1890-1940. University of Reading, England. 24 March 2017.
"Putting the ‘Great’ Back Into Great Britain." Britain in Europe / Europe in Britain. University of Portsmouth, England. 23 June 2017.
"Brexitopia on and from the Small Screen: Keeping Britain Nostalgically Calm." ESSE Conference 2018, Masaryk University (Brno), Czech Republic. 2 Sept. 2018.
- Rezensionen
Review: From Arthur's Seat: Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh edited by Alyson Kissner, Amani Al-Remal, et al. in The Bottle Imp, 20 (2/2016) Available at: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/SWE/TBI/TBIIssue20/Wirth.html
Review: Fallow by Daniel Shand. in The Bottle Imp, 21 (1/2017) Available at: asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/SWE/TBI/TBIIssue21/Wirth.html
- Herausgeberschaften
Waiting as a Cultural Practice. eds. Christoph Singer, Olaf Berwald and Robert Wirth (forthcoming 2018)
Complicity and the Politics of Representation. eds. Cornelia Wächter and Robert Wirth (forthcoming 2018)
- Konferenzen und Veranstaltungen
Complicity and the Politics of Representation (16.-18. Juni 2017) mit Cornelia Wächter (Ruhr Universität Bochum), Bochum Langendreer.
Reading Tour of Graeme Macrae Burnet (28.Juni -1.Juli 2017), Universität zu Köln, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Universität Paderborn.