Dr Paul Malgrati, BA, MPhil, PhD

Lecturer of Northern Studies

Institute for Northern Studies

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Dr Paul Malgrati

Biography

Dr Paul Malgrati is a scholar and poet from France, specialist of modern Scottish literature. Before joining INS in 2023, Paul completed his PhD at the University of St Andrews as well as a two-year post-doctoral contract at the University of Glasgow. Paul’s award-winning research led to the publication of his first monograph, (EUP, 2023), which explores Burns’s legacy in Scottish national culture, from Victorian unionism to contemporary nationalism.

Between 2018 and 2023, Paul has also completed three research projects: ‘’ (St Andrews, PI, 2018-19); ‘ (Glasgow, RA, 2020-22) and ‘’ (Glasgow. RA, 2021-23).

Since joining INS, Paul has been working on the completion of three additional volumes: a collection of articles on France and Scotland in Literature: Auld and New Alliances, co-edited with Donna Heddle (Brill, 2026); a scholarly edition of Alan’s Sharp’s A Green Tree in Gedde, in tandem with Colin McIlroy (ASLS, 2026); and a scholarly monograph, Speculative Scotland: A New Theory of National Literature, currently in development.

Since 2025, Paul is also Reviews Editor of the .

Alongside scholarship, Paul is also known as a poet and translator. In 2020, his poetic work was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize, which led to the publication (Blue Diode Press, 2022): the first collection of poetry in the Scots language by a non-native anglophone. Such Franco-Scottish interests were also developed in Paul’s French translation of Robert Crawford’s , published in bilingual edition by Molecular Press in 2021. That same year, Paul also joined the team of , the first printed, Francophone magazine about Scotland (which has since developed into a ).

Professional Memberships

  • Executive Committee Member of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literature (2023-present).
  • Member of British Association for Romantic Studies (2021-present).
  • Member of Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur (SAES) (2019-present).
  • Member of French Society for Scottish Studies (Sfeec) (2018-present)

Research Interests

Paul is a specialist of modern and contemporary Scottish literature (1700-present) with broader interests in the politics of literature, literary theory, literature, national identity and memory, the international reception of Scottish culture, and literary translations. More specifically, Paul’s past and present works have covered topics including: Robert Burns, Scottish (post-) modernism, Scottish constitutional and labour politics, Franco-Scottish literature, the Scots language, metaphysics and literary theory.

Paul welcomes any opportunities for potential collaboration or supervision in the same areas.

Academic Responsibilities

Academic Responsibilities

MLitt Modules

  • Writers and Place
  • Tour of the Highlands

Undergraduate Modules

  • What is Culture?
  • Languages on the Edge
  • Scotland in Film
  • Highland Journeys

Supervision

Publications

Publications

Monograph

  • Malgrati, P. (2023), , Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 278 pages.

Edited Volumes

  • Malgrati, P., Heddle, D. (eds) (forthcoming, 2026), France and Scotland in Literature. Auld and New Alliances. Leyden: Brill.
  • Sharp A. (forthcoming, 2026), A Green Tree in Gedde, ed. by Paul Malgrati and Colin McIlroy, Glasgow: ASLS. First published in 1965.

Peer-reviewed articles and books chapters

In Press

  • Malgrati P. (2026), ‘The Intellectual Origins of Gregory Smith’s ‘Caledonian Antisyzygy’, in Scott Lyall, Michael Shaw (eds), The Scottish Revival (1880-1950), Edinburgh: EUP.
  • Malgrati P. (2026), ‘Caledonian Antisyzygy: Escaping MacDiarmid’s Paradox’, in Camille Manfredi, et al. (ed), Hugh MacDiarmid: Visions and Revisions, Leiden: Brill.
  • Malgrati P. (2026), ‘Diaspora’, ‘Empire’, ‘Class’, in Gerard Carruthers (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Scottish Literature, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell
  • Carruthers G., Malgrati P. (2025), ‘The Literary Antecedents of “To a Haggis”’, International Review of Scottish Literature, 50.2.

Published

  • Malgrati P. (2023), ‘Scottish Literature and Diaspora’ in Gerard Carruthers, Moira Hansen (eds.), , Oxford: Blackwell’s.
  • Malgrati P., (2023), ‘Denis Saurat’s ‘The Scottish Renaissance Group’ / ‘Le Groupe De “La Renaissance Écossaise”’: An English Translation’, , 49/1, 186–196.
  • Malgrati, P. (2022) ‘Impossible Heroes: Trades Unionists, Communists and Miners in Joe Corrie’s Black Earth’, 22, 12 pages.
  • Malgrati, P.  (2021) ‘Guest Editorial’ and ‘Geography and Typology of Contemporary Burns Suppers’, , 130/1, pp.v-ix; pp.127-148.
  • Malgrati, P. (2020), ‘Joe Corrie’s In Time o’ Strife, the General Strike of 1926, and the Impasse of Insurgent Masculinity’, , 46/1, pp.46-57.
  • Malgrati, P. (2019), 'MacDiarmid's Burns: The Political Context. 1917-1928', , 11/1, Spring 2019, pp.47-66.
  • Malgrati, P. (2018), ‘Red City, Brown City, City of Men: Radical Activism) and Man-up Politics in Interwar Saint-Denis’, 35. [In French].

Other Publications

  • Malgrati, P. (forthcoming, 2025), ‘Contre l’ordre du monde : pour une diplomatie de l’infini’, Le Grand Continent.
  • Malgrati, P. (2023), ‘Antisyzygy: An Escape Route’, . 7 pages [online].
  • Malgrati, P. (2019), ‘Towards a post-colonial alliance? Some perspectives on Franco-Scots poetry translation’, . 8 pages.

Book reviews

  • Malgrati P. (2025), , Glasgow Review of Books, 26 June 2025.
  • Malgrati, P. (2023), ‘Steve Newman, David McGuinness (eds.), The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay. Volume I: The Gentle Shepherd.’ , 132/1.
  • Malgrati, P. (2021), ‘Scott Hames, The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution. Voice, Class, Nation’, , 21.

Digital Humanities Publications

  • Malgrati P., , University of Glasgow (2021)
  • Malgrati, P., Aitken, B., ‘, University of Glasgow (2020)
  • Malgrati, P. (ed.), ‘, University of St Andrews (2019).

Selected Creative Works

Book

  • Malgrati, P. (2022), , Edinburgh: Blue Diode Press.

Poetry and Non-Fiction

  • Malgrati, P. (2025), ‘The Ghaists’, in Rhona Brown, Amy Wilcockson (eds), . Edinburgh: Taproot Press.
  • Malgrati, P. (2025), ‘, Northwords Now, 46.
  • Malgrati, P. (2023) ‘Malgrati’ in Samina Chaudhry, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, Rebecca Sharp (ed.) , Cupar: Matecznik Press.
  • Malgrati, P. (2021) ‘Sainte’; ‘Upon Visiting Richard Cameron’s Cairn’, , 10.
  • Malgrati, P. (2021), ‘Orcadia’s Continent’, in Jim Macintosh & Paul Philippou (eds.), . A Collection of Poems & Writings to Mark the Centenary of George Mackay Brown, Perth: Tippermuir Books.
  • Crawford, Robert (2021), , French trans.
  • Paul Malgrati, Geneva: Molecular Press. Malgrati, P. (2020), ‘Forêt de Fontainebleau’; ‘Eden-upon-Tay’, in Edwin Morgan Poetry Award Pamphlet, Edinburgh.
  • Malgrati, P. (2020), ‘Afore a Nicht Oot’, Gutter, 19. Selected by the .
  • Paul Malgrati (2016), "Notre jeunesse : de la gachette au coeur" in Tzvetan Todorov, Giorgio Agamben, Edgar Morin (et.al.), Résister à la terreur, Paris: Aube, pp.126-130.

Selected Talks & Conferences

Selected Talks & Conferences

  • April 2025, ‘ Paradox’, 杏吧原创 Institute for Northern Studies.
  • February 2025, ‘, JGU Scotland’s Hub.
  • January 2025, ‘, Edinburgh French Institute.
  • July 2023, ‘Scottish Literature since Indyref’, Panel Discussant, International Congress of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literature, University of Nottingham.
  • January 2023, ‘, Scottish Revival Network.
  • January 2022, ‘ Virtual reality events, University of Glasgow, Online.
  • October 2021, ‘The Political Uses of Robert Burns during the 2014 Indyref Campaign’, Annual Congress of Société Française d’Etudes Ecossaises.
  • April 2021, , Lecture Series of Saint Andrews Society of San Francisco.
  • October 2019, ‘Robert Burns and the Scottish Left’, Modern British History seminar, University of Oxford.

Selected Media Appearances

Radio

  • BBC Radio 4, ‘, 30 January 2025
  • BBC Radio 4, ‘, 7 January 2025.
  • BBC Radio 4, ‘, 14 July 2022.

Press

  • Neil Mackay, ‘, Herald, 26 January 2025.
  • Petra Johanna Poncarova, ‘, Glasgow Review of Books, 23 January 2025.
  • Neil Young, ‘“ati’, Glasgow Review of Books, 8 July 2023.
  • Michael Alexander, ‘ The Courier, 30 July 2022.
  • David Leask, ‘, Herald, 10 July 2022.
  • Alison Campsie, ‘’, 10 July 2022.