Professor Gill Plain FRSE

Professor of English Literature and Popular Culture, University of St Andrews

Gill Plain is Professor of English Literature and Popular Culture, and former Head of the School of English, at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on British literature, cinema and culture of the mid-twentieth century; the Second World War and its aftermath; crime fiction and gender studies. As writer and editor, her publications include ‘Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction’, ‘John Mills and British Cinema’, ‘Literature of the 1940s’, and ‘Scotland and the First World War’. Her most recent books are ‘Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity in the Aftermath of World War II’ and ‘Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction’.

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