Network Director
The Network Director is Professor Alison Jack.
Alison Jack studied English Literature and Language and then Divinity at Edinburgh University. She is currently Professor of Bible and Literature at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh and Principal of New College. Her most recent publication is The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature: Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings (Oxford: OUP, 2019). She is currently researching the role of the Bible in the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop and Norman MacCaig.
Steering Group
The Steering Group comprises Professor Jack, Dr Linden Bicket, Professor Penny Fielding, Dr Michael Fuller, Professor David Jasper, Dr Steve Sutcliffe and Dr Lois Wilson-McFarland.
Linden Bicket
Linden Bicket is Lecturer in Literature and Religion in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Her research interests include patterns of faith and scepticism in modern literature, and she is currently researching the work of women Catholic writers, including Elizabeth Jennings, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Thomas Ellis.
Penny Fielding
Penny Fielding is Grierson Professor of English Literature and has published widely on nineteenth-century Scottish Literature. Her current project on fiction and secrecy includes ideas of the secret in Scottish religious thought.