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 ASLS logo ASLS's main field of activity is publishing, and the Association is a member of Publishing Scotland.[2]
Publications Periodicals ASLS produces a number of periodicals, including Scottish Literary Review (formerly Scottish Studies Review), a peer reviewed journal of Scottish literature and cultural studies; Scottish Language, a peer reviewed journal of Scottish languages and linguistics; The International Journal of Scottish Literature, a free online peer reviewed journal; and The Bottle Imp, a free online ezine (named after the short story by Robert Louis Stevenson). Books Annual Volumes Since 1971 ASLS has republished a number of out of print Scottish texts in their Annual Volumes series (40 volumes to date). Titles in the series include reprints of 18th- and 19th-century fiction, anthologies of Scottish drama, editions of poetry and collections of other writings. Two ASLS Annual Volumes have won Saltire Society Research Book of the Year awards: The Poems of William Dunbar, edited by Priscilla Bawcutt (1998), and Sorley MacLean's D in do Eimhir, edited by Christopher Whyte (2002)[3]. New Writing Scotland Since its first issue in 1983, many contemporary Scottish writers have had early work published in ASLS's annual anthology of new short fiction and poetry, New Writing Scotland, including Leila Aboulela[4], Lin Anderson[5], Iain Banks[6], Anne Donovan[7], Janice Galloway[8], A L Kennedy[9], James Meek[10], Ian Rankin[11], James Robertson[12], Suhayl Saadi[13], Chiew-Siah Tei[14], Irvine Welsh[15], and others. Occasional Papers The ASLS Occasional Papers series publishes essays and monographs on Scottish literary and linguistic topics, usually based on papers presented at ASLS conferences. The most recent edition in this series, number 15, is entitled Scottish and International Modernisms: Relationships and Reconfigurations, and contains papers presented at a conference held at the University of Stirling in 2009[16]. Scotnotes ASLS publishes the Scotnotes series of study guides to Scottish writers and their literary works. There are currently thirty titles in this series, on authors ranging from late medieval poets such as William Dunbar and Robert Henryson to contemporary writers such as Iain Banks, Liz Lochhead and Ian Rankin[17]. Other Titles In May 2010, in partnership with the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, ASLS published an illustrated edition of Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake, to mark the 200th anniversary of the original publication[18]. In June 2011, with financial support from the Gaelic Books Council, ASLS published a new edition of Sorley MacLean's An Cuilithionn/The Cuillin[19], shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year award 2011[20]. Exhibitions Since 2004, ASLS has mounted the Scottish Writing Exhibition at the Modern Language Association of America's annual conventions in the USA, most recently in Seattle in January 2012[21], and plans to attend the 2013 event in Boston. In August 2008 the Scottish Writing Exhibition was on display at the biannual European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) conference in Aarhus in Denmark. Presidents A number of literary scholars have held the presidency of the ASLS: - John MacQueen (1970 1973)
- Tom Dunn (1973 1976)
- Alexander Scott (1976 1979)
- David Daiches[22] (1979 1984)
- Tom Crawford (1984 1989)
- Maurice Lindsay[23] (1989 1993)
- John Blackburn (1993 1994)
- David Robb (1994 1998)
- Dorothy McMillan (1998 2002)
- Alan MacGillivray (2002 2006)
- Alan Riach (2006 2010)
- Ian Brown (2010 present)
See also References External links fr:Association pour les tudes litt raires cossaises
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