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Prof Gill Plain is a Professor and Director of Impact & Research in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on 20th-century British literature, film, and culture, with specializations in crime fiction, gender studies, and postwar narratives. She holds a MA from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Newcastle.
Her major works include Women’s Fiction of the Second World War (1996), Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body (2001), and the forthcoming Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity in the Aftermath of World War II (2023). She has edited volumes such as A History of Feminist Literary Criticism (2007) and Scotland and the First World War (2016).
Recent research explores postwar masculinity, disability discourses, and technological modernity through film and literature. Supervised PhD students include Benjamin Parris and Kristina Peknikova. She is affiliated with the Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights and actively contributes to academic conferences and publications.
