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Modern and Contemporary Scottish Literature, Marxist Thought, Folk Culture, Political Literature, Radical Theory
United Kingdom

Biography

Corey is from Dumfries and Galloway. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2012. In the same year, he was awarded the G. Ross Roy Medal. His book, 'The Voice of the People: Hamish Henderson and Scottish Cultural Politics' (EUP, 2015) was shortlisted for the Saltire Research Book of the Year, and it was released in paperback in 2017. In 2012-13, Corey was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh. And in 2013-14 he was a UK-US Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2017-18, he was a Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia. Between 2014-18 he was Assistant Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. In 2018 Corey was appointed as Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.

Corey's research interests include: Modern and Contemporary Scottish Literature, Political Literature, Radical Theory, Marxist Thought, and Folk Culture.

Activities

Employment (2)

University of Glasgow: Glasgow, GB

2018-09-03 to present | Lecturer, Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature (Scottish Literature (School of Critical Studies))
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University of Groningen: Groningen, NL

2014-08-01 to 2018-08-31 | Asst. Professor of Modern English Literature (English Language and Culture)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Groningen: Groningen, NL

2015-09-01 to 2016-09-01 | University Teaching Qualification (equivalent of PGCHE) (Education)
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University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, GB

2008-09-01 to 2012-07-01 | PhD (English Literature)
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University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, GB

2004-09-20 to 2008-06-20 | MA First Class Hons, Scottish Literature and Scottish History (English Literature)
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Funding (6)

Daily Meaning as well as Daily Bread: 'Work' in the Modern Literary Imaginary

2017-09 to 2018-09 | Award
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands, NL)
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Daily Meaning as well as Daily Bread: 'Work' in the Modern Literary Imaginary

2017-09 to 2017-11 | Award
Harrison Institute, University of Virginia (VA, VA, US)
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Various Invited Lectures (CUNY, Columbia, NYU)

2013-11 to 2013-11 | Award
US-UK Fulbright Commission (Washington D. C., USA, GB)
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Romantic Nationalism and Socialist Internationalism in Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature

2012-09 to 2013-08 | Salary award
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland, GB)
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The Elusive Voice of the People: Literary Renaissance and Folk Revivalism in Twentieth-Century Scotland

2012-09 to 2013-01 | Award
US-UK Fulbright Commission (Washington D.C., USA, GB)
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Endless Flyting: The Formulation of Hamish Henderson's Cultural Politics

2008-09 to 2011-09 | Salary award
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (Dunfermline, Scotland, GB)
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Works (22)

Folkways

Blackwell's Companion to Scottish Literature (Ed. Gerard Carruthers)
2023 | Book chapter
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Literatures and Politics of the Post-War Folk Revival

Cambridge History of Scottish Literature (Ed. Ian Duncan)
2023 | Book chapter
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'The flowers of the forest are a' wede away': The Dispersal of a Familiar Refrain

Scottish Literary Review
2019 | Journal article
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Hamish Henderson: Collected Poems

Birlinn / Polygon
2019 | Edited book
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Book Review: Jenni Fagan's 'There's a Witch in the Word Machine' (2018)

The Bottle Imp (Association for Scottish Literary Studies)
2018-12-03 | Book review
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Extremism in Poiesis and Praxis

Modernism/modernity
2018-02 | Journal article
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Hamish Henderson and our Historical Moment

Edinburgh University Press Blog
2017 | Newsletter article
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The Voice of the People

2017-08 | Book
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Clannish Confines

A History of British Working-Class Literature
2017-04 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781108105392
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Becoming Anon.

Community in Modern Scottish Literature
2016 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789004317451
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Feature in ‘Best Scottish Books of 2016'

The Bottle Imp
2016 | Magazine article
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Flyting

Journal of Scottish Thought
2016 | Journal article
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

Routledge
2016 | Encyclopedia entry
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The Voice of the People

Edinburgh University Press
2015-06 | Book
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In the Midst of Our Human Civil War

Studies in Scottish Literature
2014 | Journal article
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The Folkniks in the Kailyard

The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution?
2013 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789401209809
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The Politics of the Modern Scottish Folk Revival

The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures
2013 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780748645404
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Recoiling the Springs of Action

Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique
2011 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781905510375
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"Gramsci in Action"

Borne on the Carrying Stream: The Legacy of Hamish Henderson
2010 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-1-907676-01-7
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Scottish Literary Review, Autumn/Winter 2010/11, pp. 220-222.

Scottish Literary Review
2010 | Book review
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Scottish Literary Review, Autumn/Winter, 2009, pp. 120-121

Scottish Literary Review
2009 | Book review
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‘“Tomorrow, songs / Will flow free again, and new voices / Be born on the carrying stream”

The Drouth, vol. 32, 2009
2009 | Magazine article
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