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1994 PhD Modern Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow
1990 MA English and Scandinavian Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
1989 Certificate of Proficiency in Swedish Language, Literature and Culture, Svenska Institutet Stockholm
2016- Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2014-16 Associate Dean (Research and Knowledge Exchange), Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science (HLSS)
2013- Founding Director of MMU’s ‘Humanities in Public’ Festival
2012-14 Research Institute Director, Institute of Humanities and Social Science Research (IHSSR)
2012-13 Chief REF2014 Coordinator for the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science (UoAs 23, 29, 30 & 32)
2004-11 Director, Centre of Research in English (formerly the English Research Institute), and Head of Research Development, Department of English
2004-08 RAE 2008 Coordinator for English (UoA57); Head of Postgraduate Studies, Department of English; Member of the Academic Board Research and Enterprise Sub-Committee
2003-04 Founding Director, Cultural Theory Institute, University of Manchester
English and German; good working knowledge of French and Swedish
Current:
Catherine McDermott, ‘Post-Feminist Aesthetics and the Neoliberalisation of Emancipatory Politics in Contemporary Literature, Film and Television’ (AHRC-funded)
External examiner for doctoral projects at Swansea (2010), St Andrews (2009), Roehampton (2007), Edinburgh (2007, 2003), Birkbeck (2005), Trinity Dublin (2004) and Glasgow (2001)
My research specialisms include contemporary British Fiction, Scottish literature, masculinity and gender studies, representations of nationhood, globalisation studies and cosmopolitan theory.
N. Barker, B. Masters, DM. Janes, L. Platt, G. Carpenter, et al. B. Kennedy, C. Vardy, H. Marsh, A. Bennett, E. Byrne. (2020). Nicola Barker Critical Essays. Gylphi Limited.
E. Pollard, B. Schoene (2018). British Literature in Transition, 1980–2000 Accelerated Times. E. Pollard, B. Schoene. Cambridge University Press.
B. Schoene, B. Schoene-Harwood (2010). The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh.
B. Schoene (2009). The Cosmopolitan Novel. Edinburgh University Press.
B. Schoene (2007). The Edinburgh companion to contemporary Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press.
BJ. Schoene, D. Lea (2003). Posting the Male. Masculinities in Post-War and Contemporary British Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
BJ. Schoene (2000). Writing Men: Literary Masculinities from Frankenstein to the New Man. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
BJ. Schoene (2000). Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
BJ. Schoene (1995). The Making of Orcadia. Narrative Identity in the Prose Work of George Mackay Brown. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
BJ. Schoene (2017). Contemporary American Literature as World Literature: Cruel Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopoetics, and the Search for a Worldlier American Novel. Anglia: Zeitschrift fuer Englische Philologie. 135(1), pp.86-104.
BJ. Schoene (2013). The World on a Train. Global Narration in Geoff Ryman's 253 Online Tube Theatre and Print Remix. Open Arts Journal. 1(1), pp.7-15.
B. Schoene (2013). Getting World Going in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. The Senses and Society. 8(1), pp.96-105.
BJ. Schoene, E. Byrne, J. Mullaney (2012). Barack Obama: Twenty-First-Century President. Comparative American Stuides. 10(2-3), pp.109-115.
BJ. Schoene (2012). Cosmo-Kitsch vs. Cosmopoetics. The Review of Contemporary Fiction. 32(3), pp.105-113.
B. Schoene (2010). Tour du Monde: David Mitchell's Ghostwritten and the Cosmopolitan Imagination. COLLEGE LITERATURE. 37(4), pp.42-+.
B. Schoene (2008). Cosmopolitan Scots. SCOTTISH STUDIES REVIEW. 9(2), pp.71-92.
B. Schoene (2008). Serial Masculinity: Psychopathology and Oedipal Violence in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 54(2), pp.378-397.
B. Schoene (2006). The walking cure: Heimat, masculinity and mobile narration in Alan Warner's The man who walks. SCOTTISH STUDIES REVIEW. 7(1), pp.95-109.
B. Schoene (2006). The wounded woman and the parrot: post-feminist girlhood in Alan Warner's "The Sopranos" and Bella Bathurst's "Special". Journal of gender studies. 15(2), pp.133-144.
D. Lea, BJ. Schoene (2002). Introduction to the Special Section on Literary Masculinities. Men and Masculinities. 4(4), pp.319-321.
B. Schoene (1999). Beyond (t)race: bildung and proprioception in Meera Syal's 'Anita and Me'. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 34(1), pp.131-148.
B. Schoene (1999). Dams burst: devolving gender in Iain Banks's "The Wasp Factory". Ariel: review of international English literature. 30(1), pp.131-148.
B. Schoene (1998). Herald of hybridity: the emancipation of difference in Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia". International journal of cultural studies. 1(1), pp.109-128.
B. Schoene (1998). Emerging as the others of our selves: Scottish multiculturalism and the challenge of body in postcolonial representation. Scottish Literary Journal. 25(1), pp.54-72.
BJ. Schoene (1995). I Imagined Nine Centuries: Narrative Fragmentation and Mythical Closure in the Shorter Historical Fiction of George Mackay Brown. Scottish Literary Journal. 22(2), pp.41-59.
B. Schoene (1995). A passage to Scotland: Scottish literature and the British postcolonial condition. Scotlands. 2(1), pp.107-122.
E. Pollard, B. Schoene (2018). Introduction. In: British Literature in Transition, 1980–2000. Cambridge University Press, pp.1-22.
BJ. Schoene (2013). Weltliteratur und kosmopolitische Literatur. S. Winko, G. Rippl. In: Handbuch Kanon und Wertung. Metzler, pp.356-363.
BJ. Schoene (2011). Baffled Hopes and Bad Habits: Men, Marriage and Conformity in Queer Theory and Gay Representation. S. Horlacher. In: Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.209-218.
B. Schoene (2007). Going cosmopolitan: Reconstituting 'Scottishness' in post-devolution criticism. In: The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. pp.7-16.
B. Schoene (2006). Queer politics, queer theory, and the future of "identity": spiralling out of culture. E. Rooney. In: The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.283-302.
B. Schoene (2004). Nervous men, mobile nation: masculinity and psychopathology in Irvine Welsh's "Filth" and "Glue". E. Bell, G. Miller. In: Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture and Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp.121-145.
B. Schoene (2003). The Union and Jack: British masculinities, pomophobia and the post-nation. G. Norquay, G. Smyth. In: Across the Margins: Identity, Resistance and Minority Culture throughout the British Archipelago. pp.83-98.
BJ. Schoene (1997). The (Al)location of Culture: Scottish Postcoloniality and the Twentieth-Century Highland Novel. G. Norquay, G. Smyth. In: Space and Place: The Geographies of Literature. Liverpool John Moores University Press, pp.359-371.
BJ. Schoene (1995). Angry Young Masculinity in the Scottish Novels of Alan Sharp. C. Whyte. In: Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature.. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp.85-106.
BJ. Schoene, E. Byrne (2013). Cosmopolitanism as Critical and Creative Practice. An Introduction. Open Arts Journal. 1, 2-7.
B. Schoene (2011). The Anti-Instrumentalist Community. NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION. 44, 476-479.
2012 NEAG Distinguished Visiting Professor of British Literature, University of Connecticut
2008 Visiting Professor, International Centre, University of Madras, India [sponsored by Madras University, Stella Maris College Chennai, the Indian Association of British Scholars and the British Council at Chennai]