Dr Adrian Hunter

Senior Lecturer

English Studies University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Dr Adrian Hunter

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My research centres on the history and development of the short story in British, Irish and North American literatures. My work ranges across key historical periods and national contexts in which the short story has flourished, from the early 19th century to the present day, with a focus on the literary periodical as the principal venue of publication for short fiction in its many forms. I have published extensively on the short story and modernism, but my interests extend from the Romantic period (James Hogg and the periodical press) to contemporary writers such as the Nobel Laureate Alice Munro. I am currently researching the role of short fiction in the Cold War Anglo-American cultural affairs magazine Encounter (1953-1990), as part of a wider project on the short story in British literary periodicals between 1940 and 1990.

Projects

James Hogg: Contributions to International Periodicals
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Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council

RLF Fellowship Programme
PI: Dr Adrian Hunter
Funded by: Royal Literary Fund

Brander Matthews and the rise of the short story
PI: Dr Adrian Hunter
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust

Outputs (27)

Outputs

Scholarly Edition

Hunter A (ed.) (2020) James Hogg: Contributions to English, Irish, and American Periodicals, Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-contributions-to-english-irish-and-american-periodicals.html


Edited Book

Delaney P & Hunter A (eds.) (2018) The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English. Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-short-story-in-english.html


Book Chapter

Hunter A (2018) The Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies. In: Delaney P & Hunter A (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English. Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 24-39. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-short-story-in-english.html


Book Chapter

Hunter A (2016) The Rise of Short Fiction. In: Marcus L, Mendelssohn M & Shepherd-Barr K (eds.) Late Victorian into Modern. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 204-217. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/late-victorian-into-modern-9780198704393?q=Exploring%20Studio%20Materials:%20Teaching%20Creative%20Art%20Making%20to%20Children/%20Mary%20Hafeli〈=en&cc=gb


Conference Proceeding

Hames S & Hunter A (eds.) (2016) If Scotland.... Conjecturing 2014. Journal of Scottish Thought, Volume 8. If Scotland: Posting 2014, 23.08.2014-24.08.2014. University of Stirling: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen. https://www.store.abdn.ac.uk/product-catalogue/publications/research-institute-of-irish-and-scottish-studies/journal-of-scottish-thought-volume-8


Book Chapter

Hunter A (2016) Novel, Novella, Short Story. In: Boxall P & Cheyette B (eds.) The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940. Oxford History of the Novel in English, 7. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 272-287. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198749394.do


Book Review

Hunter A (2014) Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective. Review of:
Veronica Patea (Ed.), Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2012, 346 pp., ISBN 978 9-042-03564-5. European Journal of English Studies, 18 (2), pp. 224-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2014.895094


Book Chapter

Hunter A (2012) The Short Story and the Difficulty of Modernism. In: Sacido & J (eds.) Modernism, Postmodernism and the Short Story in English. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 29-46. http://www.rodopi.nl/ntalpha.asp?BookId=PMS+48&type=new&letter=R


Book Chapter

Hunter A (2010) Kelman and the Short Story. In: Hames S (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 42-52. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748639649


Book Review

Hunter A (2009) Tim Killick, British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century. Review of: British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century, Tim Killick, Ashgate: Aldershot and Burlington, 2008, 193pp, ISBN: 978-0-7546-6413-0. Studies in Hogg and His World, (20), pp. 144-147.


Book Review

Hunter A (2009) Alexander Pushkin: The Captain's Daughter. Review of: Alexander Pushkin: The Captain's Daughter. Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler. London: Hesperus, 2007, Pp. xvii+130. ISBN 978-1843911548. Translation and Literature, 18 (1), pp. 128-130. https://doi.org/10.3366/E0968136108000460


Authored Book

Hunter A (2007) The Cambridge Introduction to the English Short Story. Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521681124&ss=exc


Book Review

Hunter A (2007) Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock. Review of: The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro, London: Chatto & Windus, 2006, 352pp. ISBN 9780701179892. Studies in Hogg and His World, (18), pp. 108-112.


Edited Book

Hunter A (ed.) (2006) Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Broadview Editions. Ontario: Broadview Press. https://www.broadviewpress.com/product.php?productid=794&cat=0&page=1


Book Review

Hunter A (2005) Karl Miller, Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg. Review of: Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg, Karl Miller, New York: Faber and Faber, 2003, 416pp, ISBN 978-0571218172. Studies in Hogg and His World, (16), pp. 173-175.


Book Review

Hunter A (2005) Anton Chekhov: About Love and Other Stories. Review of: Anton Chekhov: About Love and Other Stories. Translated by Rosamund Bartlett. (World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 Pp. xxxiv + 211. ISBN 978-0199536689. Translation and Literature, 14 (2), pp. 262-266. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2005.14.2.262