Dr Kyle Smith

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Contact: Kyle.smith.perth@uhi.ac.uk

Publications

  • ““Awfully sorry to have intruded”: Representations of Africa in E. Phillips Oppenheim’s The Great Impersonation and Laura Wilkinson’s American Spy” (currently seeking publication)
  • “courage, wonderment and a willingness towards strangeness”: why Literature matters in the twenty first century university.” (currently seeking publication)
  • “Vanished ladies: using Helen MacInnes’ Above Suspicion to look at women in spy fiction” - this is a chapter to be published in a collection called Espionage Narratives, Sexualities and Gender collection edited by Ann Rea and to be published by Bloomsbury. (due to be published, 2023)
  • Smith, K. ODonnell, P. and McGuigan, A. (2019)  The Journey from Further Education to Higher Education: an investigation into the ‘lived experiences’ of learners as they transition into and through the first year of higher education. Submitted Nov 2018, accepted Nov 2018 in Scottish Education Review, May 2019
  •  “‘A terrible familiarity’: Gravity’s Rainbow, Spies and Circumventing the Terror of Whiteness” in Ewan Kirkland (ed), Shades of Whiteness, Inter-Disciplinary Press 2016
    British Spy Fiction, the “albatross of self” and lines of flight in Gravity’s Rainbow. Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon, 3(1) 2015. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/orbit.74
  • ““Serving Interests Invisible:” The Pre Cold War British Spy novel, Mason and Dixon and the Spectres of Imperialism,” in Niran Abbas, Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2007.
  • 'Masculinities, Radioactivity and Narrative in The Incredible Shrinking Man,' in Nathan Abrams and Julie Hughes (eds.). Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America, Birmingham University Press (2002)

Conference Papers

  • “Thomas Pynchon in the Bowels of the Earth: Tunnelers, Enchanters and Little People” International Pynchon Week, Musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France, 6/7/17
    Angela Lansbury: Servant, Mother, Tourist, Spy. UHI Conference, UHI, Inverness, 9/10/16
  • “The Journey from Further Education to Higher Education:  an exploration of learner experiences and expectations.” UHI Conference, UHI, Inverness, 9/10/16 (with Dr Patrick O Donnell)
  • ‘Sexual health e-learning resources for FE professionals to use with young men’ Cancer Prevention Innovation Showcase Event, South Bank, London  Tuesday 1st December 2015. (with Dr Marie Gallagher (Stirling University))
  • Kyle Smith, From Oppenheim to Oppenheimer: Beginnings, middles and ends in the British spy novel, Spying on Spies: Popular Representations of Spies and Espionage Conference, The Shard, London 3 September 2015.
  • "A terrible familiarity": Gravity’s Rainbow, spies and circumventing the terror of Whiteness. The Images of Whiteness Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 12/5/15
  • York Place to Inverlair Lodge: John Buchan, spying and “the intimate and omnipresent enemy.” Scotland's Great War - Friday 14th March 2014 0900-1600 Perth College UHI, Perth
    “the true momentum of his time”: Being, Seeing and Fleeing Buchan's 'White Man’ in the work of Thomas Pynchon - Marginalised Mainstream 2014: Disguise Institute of English Studies, Senate House University of London 27/10/14
  • “All those feathers and he still can’t fly.” Spies, the albatross of self and lines of flight in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, Durham University, Durham 3/8/13