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‘Imperialistic abroad and xenophobic at home’. How does the UK publishing industry plead to these charges? Guilty or not guilty? (2015)
Journal Article
Craighill, S. (2015). ‘Imperialistic abroad and xenophobic at home’. How does the UK publishing industry plead to these charges? Guilty or not guilty?. Journal of European Popular Culture, 6(1), 5-18. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc.6.1.5_1

This article examines popular culture and its effect on the European translations market. The dominant position of Anglo-Saxon culture in the global cultural economy has stimulated an imbalance in the flow of translations towards the English-language... Read More about ‘Imperialistic abroad and xenophobic at home’. How does the UK publishing industry plead to these charges? Guilty or not guilty?.

The problem of English language export fiction in Europe (2015)
Journal Article
Craighill, S. (2015). The problem of English language export fiction in Europe. Publishing Research Quarterly, 31(2), 91-101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-015-9400-0

Translations from the English language domain are reportedly declining, thus suggesting that there is a counter trend in publishing where Anglophone markets are coexisting more favourably alongside small-nation book trades. This article, however, arg... Read More about The problem of English language export fiction in Europe.

Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meharg, D., & Craighill, S. (2014). Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries. In The European Conference on Education 2014: Official Conference Proceedings (79-90)

This paper explores Whitchurch’s (2008) notion of the ‘third space’ in the context of articulating students from Further Education to Higher Education. This research appropriates the term ‘third space’ and applies it to the emergent territory occupie... Read More about Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries.

Student beliefs as barriers to articulation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meharg, D., & Craighill, S. (2015). Student beliefs as barriers to articulation. In 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044416

Eccles et al.’s ‘Expectancy-Value Model of Achievement Motivation’ (2000) states that ‘an individual’s choice, persistence, and performance can be explained by their beliefs about how well they will do on the activity and the extent to which they val... Read More about Student beliefs as barriers to articulation.

Changing audiences: the case of the Penguin "Ulysses". (2011)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2011). Changing audiences: the case of the Penguin "Ulysses". In G. Allen, C. Griffin, & M. O'Connell (Eds.), Readings on audience and textual materiality (131-142). Chatto and Pickering

The influence of duality and Poe’s notion of the ‘bi-part soul’ on the genesis of detective fiction in the Nineteenth-Century (2010)
Thesis
Craighill, S. The influence of duality and Poe’s notion of the ‘bi-part soul’ on the genesis of detective fiction in the Nineteenth-Century. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4051

This thesis examines the meaning, origin and influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s notion of the ‘Bi-Part Soul’, and the associated theme of duality, in selected texts of nineteenth-century detective fiction. Poe’s detective opus, ‘The Murders in the Rue M... Read More about The influence of duality and Poe’s notion of the ‘bi-part soul’ on the genesis of detective fiction in the Nineteenth-Century.

We're trying to get back to normal here: a case-study of David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence" (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bishop, D. (2009). We're trying to get back to normal here: a case-study of David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence".

David Cronenberg is arguably one of the world’s most acclaimed cult directors, his films renowned for their depictions of body horror and transgressive outsiders. But five years ago he found himself enduring a run of critically acclaimed flops, with... Read More about We're trying to get back to normal here: a case-study of David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence".

A semester with the Sony eBook Reader. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Allan, D. (2009, October). A semester with the Sony eBook Reader. Paper presented at International Conference on the Book

The marketplace has seen the launch over the past two years of a plethora of products that can now handle digitised books on mobile devices. One of the most prominent of these has been the Sony e-book reader, principally because of its availability t... Read More about A semester with the Sony eBook Reader..

Bolshie teenagers and boring books: pre and post Potter. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, A. (2009, October). Bolshie teenagers and boring books: pre and post Potter. Paper presented at 7th International Conference on the Book

A 1989 report provided both a snapshot of the contemporary role of reading in children’s lives and a basis upon which policies could be developed in order to encourage reading. The motivation for this work was both pragmatic and aspirational: a rever... Read More about Bolshie teenagers and boring books: pre and post Potter..

The Empire of books: reviewing the march of globalisation. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McCleery, A. (2009, October). The Empire of books: reviewing the march of globalisation. Presented at 7th International Conference of the Book

The relationship between trade, political and cultural sovereignty, legal infrastructures and language lies at the core of this paper. Previous accounts of this relationship have been characterised either by a form of technological determinism and/or... Read More about The Empire of books: reviewing the march of globalisation..

The trials and travels of Lady Chatterley. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McCleery, A. (2009, July). The trials and travels of Lady Chatterley. Paper presented at Lady Chatterley and her Consequences Conference

Letting others do the work for you: the use of a wiki in creating a large-scale dataset. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gunn, L. (2009, June). Letting others do the work for you: the use of a wiki in creating a large-scale dataset. Paper presented at Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference

The problems of creating a large and diverse dataset for public online access are common across a number of fields and disciplines, particularly where the resources available to the researchers in terms of staffing, access and mobility are restricted... Read More about Letting others do the work for you: the use of a wiki in creating a large-scale dataset..

Putting tartan in the mix: the strange case of "Gideon Mack". (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McCleery, A., & Copeland, C. (2009, June). Putting tartan in the mix: the strange case of "Gideon Mack". Paper presented at Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference