Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research expertise
Avant-garde fiction, especially Virginia Woolf, Ali Smith and Hélène Cixous; philosophy and literature; science and science fiction; nature writing; psychogeography and writing about ‘place’; modern and contemporary poetry; digital media.
Ian’s research interests are primarily in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. He is currently working on the A9 Project, which is an exploration of the psychogeography of Scotland’s longest trunk road; and Modernist NN, an experiment in training a laptop-based artificial neural network to write modernist flash fiction. He is also interested in the representations of AI and animal/corvid intelligence in SF and fantasy.
Ian would be keen to hear from students wishing to undertake postgraduate research in any of the above fields. He joined the University of the Highlands and Islands in 2013, is a graduate of the University of St Andrews, has held various teaching and research posts there before coming to UHI; he has also worked at the universities of Dundee and Hull.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University of St Andrews
Award Date: 1 Jan 2001
Master of Arts, University of St Andrews
Award Date: 1 Jan 1998
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Research Output
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Orlando: A Biography
Woolf, V., Raitt, S. (ed.) & Blyth, I. (ed.), Jun 2018, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 773 p.Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition
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The Twa Corbies – some thoughts on ravens in Scottish culture
Blyth, I., 16 Jan 2014Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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What a lark! What a plunge! Woooooooo-hooooooo what a fall what a soar what a plummet what a dash: Virginia Woolf and Ali Smith
Blyth, I., 1 Feb 2014, Bloomsbury Influences: Papers from the Bloomsbury Adaptations Conference, Bath Spa University, 5-6 May 2011. Wright, E. H. (ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 46-55 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Simile and Similarity in Ali Smith’s Like
Blyth, I., 18 Jul 2013, Ali Smith (Contemporary Critical Perspectives). Germanà, M. & Horton, E. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 23-34 12 p. ch2Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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Woolf and the culture of letter-writing and diary-keeping
Blyth, I., Feb 2013, Virginia Woolf in Context. Goldman, J. & Randall, B. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 353-61 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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Do Not Feed the Birds: Night and Day and the Defence of the Realm Act
Blyth, I., 1 Jun 2012, Contradictory Woolf: Selected Papers from the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ryan, D. & Bolaki, S. (eds.). Clemson: Clemson University Press, p. 278-84 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Helen Southworth (ed.). Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism. Jeanne Dubino (ed.). Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace.
Blyth, I., Jan 2012, In : Review of English Studies. 63, 258, p. 171-3 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review