Teaching
Academic teaching experience includes:
Masters dissertation supervision. Includes MLitt dissertation supervision on post-secular literature, examining the influence of Tolkien and Le Guin on the contemporary fantasy genre.
EN5511 Theorising the Contemporary. Designed and delivered lecture and seminar content on defining the contemporary for Masters students, teaching critical theory including Agamben, Casanova, Moretti and Spivak, critiquing interdisciplinary perspectives on artistic periodization and discussing the Anthropocene’s impact on contemporary culture.
EN4406 Contemporary Fiction. Guest lecturer for final year undergraduate Honours students, designing and delivering a lecture on David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten and globalisation theory, assisting with module design by providing recommended primary and secondary reading, and setting discussion questions for student presentations.
CS4303 Video Games (58³Ô¹Ï) and AC31009 Games Programming (Dundee). Designed and delivered third year and final year Honours lectures on Narratology for Video Games for video game software developers as an invited lecturer at the School of Computer Science at the University of 58³Ô¹Ï, and at the School of Computing, University of Dundee.
International Summer Programme Lectures, 58³Ô¹Ï and Oxford. Lecturer on Jekyll and Hyde for 16-18 year-olds, designing and delivering a lecture series on the global cultural legacy of this story on stage and screen since the nineteenth century, University of 58³Ô¹Ï. I have also given these talks as an invited lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford.
International Education Institute, University of 58³Ô¹Ï. Tutor on the interdisciplinary Academic Induction pre-sessional course for first-year undergraduates, assessing presentations and essays, and providing one-to-one feedback tutorials on public speaking and essay writing.
EN3214 The Country and the City in Scottish Literature. Guest lecturer and module assistant for undergraduate Honours students, designing and delivering a lecture on Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon and the panoptic legacy from Bentham to Foucault, assisting with module design and administration, selecting a core text, and planning student reading and questions.
EN1003 Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature. Designed and delivered seminars for first year undergraduates, providing essay feedback and marking assessments, and teaching texts by T.S. Eliot, Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster and more.
EN2004 Drama: Reading and Performance. Designed and delivered second-year seminars, providing essay feedback and marking assessments, teaching plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill, Liz Lochhead and more.
EN4406 Contemporary British Fiction. Teaching assistant for final year undergraduate Honours students. Co-taught seminars on David Mitchell’s works, supervising small groups, generating discussion and providing feedback.
Research areas
Dr Rose Harris-Birtill is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of 58³Ô¹Ï, and Editorial Director at the Open Library of Humanities, a diamond open access academic publisher based at the University of London.
Her academic monograph, David Mitchell's Post-Secular World: Buddhism, Belief and the Urgency of Compassion (2019, Bloomsbury Academic, 125,000 words) brings together post-secular literary fiction and Buddhist philosophies, investigating the redeployment of Buddhist influences across the complete fictions of author David Mitchell. This study also broadens to investigate a wider resurgence of post-secular narrative worlds in contemporary literature, discussing Mitchell’s works alongside those of Michael Ondaatje, Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Will Self and Margaret Atwood.
Rose’s research interests include contemporary and twentieth-century literatures and poetics, open acccess publishing, AI and diverse intelligences, time, globalisation, the post-secular, digital storytelling, Tibetan Buddhism and diaspora, world literature, literature in performance, speculative fiction, and critical and cultural theory.
Rose is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), an accredited Masters-level professional teaching qualification awarded at the University of 58³Ô¹Ï, aligning with the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF).
As a full member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), Rose is also an invited member of the CELJ Advisory Board for the Mellon Foundation funded project ‘Re-Imagining Peer Review’, which aims to advance equitable and inclusive practices in peer review and scholarly journal publishing within the humanities. Rose is also an invited member of Crossref's Membership and Fees Committee.
Rose holds the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) New Scholar Prize, the Frank Muir Prize for Writing, and a McCall MacBain Teaching Excellence Award. Rose has also served as the Secretary for the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies, and is the current UK National Expert for the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS).
Rose also served as the lead organiser for the David Mitchell Conference, a one-day international conference on the author's works that was held at the University of 58³Ô¹Ï. See the website for more.
Selected publications
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Open access
Harris-Birtill, R., 10 Jan 2019, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 304 p. (New Horizons in Contemporary Writing)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Harris-Birtill, R., 21 Oct 2025, In: Open Library of Humanities. 11, 2, p. 1-9 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Open access
Harris-Birtill, D. & Harris-Birtill, R., 23 Sept 2021, Time in variance. Misztal, A., Harris, P. A. & Parker, J. A. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 220-248 (The study of time; vol. 17).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Open access
Harris-Birtill, R. (Editor), 1 Oct 2018, In: C21 Literature. 6, 3
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Open access
Harris-Birtill, R. (Editor), 24 Sept 2019, In: KronoScope: The Journal for the Study of Time. 19, 2
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Open access
Harris-Birtill, R., 1 Oct 2018, In: C21 Literature. 6, 3, p. 1-10 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Open access
Eve, M. & Harris-Birtill, R., 12 May 2021, In: Open Library of Humanities. 7, 1, 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Open access
Harris-Birtill, R., 24 Sept 2019, In: KronoScope: The Journal for the Study of Time. 19, 2, p. 107-109 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Open access
Harris-Birtill, R., 8 Sept 2017, In: KronoScope: The Journal for the Study of Time. 17, 2, p. 163-181 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Harris-Birtill, R., 2019, David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Knepper, W. & Hopf, C. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 117-132 16 p. (Contemporary Critical Perspectives).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review