Personal Profile

Alan Riach is a poet and was Associate Professor of English and a Pro-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, where he specialised in twentieth-century literature, teaching Scottish, Irish, American and post-colonial literatures, and modern poetry.

Since 2003, Alan Riach has held a Professorship in Scottish Literature and is currently Head of Department at the Univversity of Glasgow. His most recent critical book is Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and he has contributed poems and essays to numerous recent volumes, including Scotlands: Poets and the Nation (co-edited with Professor Douglas Gifford, Carcanet, 2004), The Wallace Muse (ed. Lesley Duncan and Elspeth King, 2005) and The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 2005).

Alan joined the management committee in the autumn of 2009.