Editors 1963-2025
| Founding Editor (vols. 1–36): | G. Ross Roy, University of South Carolina |
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| Editor (vols 37–50): | Patrick Scott, University of South Carolina |
| Editor (sole editor from vol 51; joint editor vols 37-50): | Tony Jarrells, University of South Carolina |
This issue, Dreaming the Daily Darg (SSL50.1), guest-edited and introduced by Corey Gibson, presents nine essays on work and working lives of the last 100 years, as seen both by well-established Scottish writers and through outsider voices and in community writing groups.
Studies in Scottish Literature, founded in 1963 and edited at the University of South Carolina since 1965, was the first refereed scholarly journal in its field and remains among the top Scottish literature journals internationally, publishing new research and critical debate on all periods of Scottish literature.
This site provides access to Studies in Scottish Literature, vols 1-50. Two further issues under Patrick Scott's editorship, SSL49.2, a general issue, and 50.2, a special issue on Reading the Material Book: the Scottish book as Physical Object, are now in active preparation and will be added to this site as ready.
Beginning with SSL 51.1, Studies in Scottish Literature is published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Tony Jarrells (South Carolina) with Penny Fielding (Edinburgh) as Associate Editor. Articles and other enquiries may be sent to Tony Jarrells by email. For articles in the EUP issues, information, submission guidelines, digital access, and individual and institutional subscriptions, see EUP's SSL page .
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Current Issue: Volume 50, Issue 1 (2025) Dreaming the Daily Darg: Working Lives in Scottish Writing since 1918
Front Matter
Series Editors' Preface to SSL 50.1
Patrick Scott and Tony Jarrells
Articles
Introduction: Dreaming the Daily Darg
Corey Gibson
Labour and (Class) Struggle in James Barke’s Compositionist Imaginaries: Dreaming with Rob Roy, Marx & Burns
Arianna Introna
Agnes Owens and the Parliament of Insignificant Lives
Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon
Writing Loss, Culture and Change: Deindustrialisation and Community Writers’ Groups In Glasgow
Kate Wilson
James Kelman and the Impossibility of Managerial Souls
Joseph H. Jackson
Scottish Workers’ Stories of Life and Labour during Covid-19 from the Workers’ Stories Project
Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert, Suki Sangha, and Ewan Gibbs