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Louise Welsh: Writing in the Dark; Storytelling, Memory and Gothic (DARIAH2022)

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Louise Welsh works in several forms including novels, short stories, opera libretti, radio, performance and sound art. She has written nine novels, most recently The Second Cut (Canongate Books 2022). Louise is editor of Yonder Awa, a poetry anthology on the theme of Scotland and the North Atlantic slave trade by Scottish and Caribbean writers and ‘Ghost, One Hundred Stories to Read with the Lights On’. Louise is co-director (with Jude Barber) of the Empire Café, an award-winning collective exploring Scotland’s relationship with empire. Louise has collaborated on four critically acclaimed operas with composer Stuart MacRae. Their latest collaboration Anthropocene, premiered to wide acclaim in 2019. Louise has also written for the stage, most recently King Keich (2018) inspired by Alfred Jarry’s Pere Ubu. She has received several awards and international fellowships, including an honorary fellowship from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and honorary doctorates from the Open University and Edinburgh Napier University. She was University of Otago Scottish Writers’ Fellow, New Zealand (2016). Louise is Professor of Creative Writing at University of Glasgow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

This keynote by Louise Welsh explores the creation of gothic fiction, its connection to the past and memory, personal and collective.

The keynote was recorded on June 3, 2022, at the DARIAH Annual Event 2022.
https://annualevent.dariah.eu/
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