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Billy Gray

Associate Professor English, English

Senior Lecturer English, English

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Research projects

Ageing, Quality of Life and Creativity through Narrative
01-01-2017
The Challenges of International Migration to the Actualisation of Transculturality and Transnationalism in Twenty-First Century Europe
03-04-2017

Publications

Gray, Billy. From the Secular to the Sacred : The encoding of the culturally unfamilar in the novels of Leila Aboulela, Part of: Narratives Crossing Borders, 2019. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. Rumi, Sufi Spirituality and the Teacher-Disciple Relationship in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love, Part of: Aging Studies, Transcript Verlag, 2019. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. Western Sufism, Rumi and teacher-disciple relationship in Elif Shafak’s The Forthy Rules of Love, 2019. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. "You can’t grab anything with a closed fist" : Reflections on Ulster Protestant Identity in Derek Lundy’s Memoir Men that God Made Mad: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland, 2019. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. The Teacher-Disciple Relationship in Elif Shafak's Forty Rules of Love, Part of: Re-discovering Ageing through Narratives of Mentorship, Transcript Verlag, 2018. Chapter of book.

Gray, Billy. Reflections on Ulster Protestant Identity in Derek Lundy's Men That God Made Mad : A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland, 2018. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. 'The Bloody Red Hand' : Investigations into the Loyalist Historical Imagination in Derek Lundy's Men That God Made Mad: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland, 2018. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. 'The Strange Recurring Residues of the Past in the Present' : Irma Kurtz and the Narration of the Self, 2018. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. Less than marching, more like meditation : Zen Buddhism and the theme of tolerance in the work of Chris Arthur, 2018. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. 'All ages and no age' : Memory, Self-Narration and the Temporality of Psychic Life in Irma Kurtz's Then Again: Travels in Search of My Younger Self, Part of: a/b Autobiography Studies, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2017. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. 'All Ages and no age' : Memory, Self-Narration and the Temporality of Psychic life in Irma Kurtz's Travels in Search of my Younger Self, 2017. Conference paper : refereed.
Zamorano Llena, Carmen (red), Gray, Billy (red). Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland : Studies in Literature and Culture, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016.
Zamorano Llena, Carmen, Gray, Billy. Introduction : Versions of Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland, Part of: Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. 'You can't grab anything with a closed fist' : Reflections on Ulster Protestant Identity in Derek Lundy's Men That God Made Mad: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland, Etudes Irlandaises, 2015, Vol. 40, No. 1, 285-304. Article : refereed.
Gray, Billy (red), Dodou, Katherina (red). Special issue: Cultural Memory and the Remediation of Narratives of Irishness, Dalarna University Centre for Irish, 2014.
Gray, Billy. 'A Thrilling Beauty'? : Violence, Transcendence and the Shankill Butchers in Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man, Estudios Irlandeses, 2014, No. 9, 54-66. Article : refereed.
Gray, Billy. Skeletons in the Historical Cupboard : Transculturality in Joseph O'Neill's Blood Dark Track, 2014. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. 'A thrilling beauty'? : Violence, Transcendence and the Shankill Butchers in Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man, 2014. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. “A Thrilling Beauty? : Violence, Transcendence and the Shankill Butchers in Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man", 2013. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. ‘Less like marching, more like meditation’ : Zen Buddhism, Haiku, and the Theme of Tolerance in the Work of Chris Arthur, Part of: Reimagining Ireland, Peter Lang, 2011. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. ‘Your stay must be a becoming’ : Ageing and Desire in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, Part of: Flaming Embers: Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire, Peter Lang, 2010. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. ‘Close-cropped grass comes up again fresh and sweet’ : Hubert Butler’s Perspective on Nationalism, Post-Nationalism and a Globalised Ireland, Part of: Redefinitions of Irish Identity in the Twenty-First Century: A Postnationalist Approach, Peter Lang, 2010. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. ‘Less like marching, more like meditation’ : Zen Buddhism, Haiku, and the Theme of Tolerance in the Work of Chris Arthur, International NAES-FINSSE conference: English in the north : 2010. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. ‘The ravages of second-hand experience’ : Hubert Butler’s Perspective on the Myth of a Globalised Ireland, Seventh Biennial International Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) : 2010. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. Skeletons in the Historical Cupboard : Reflections on Irish National Memory and Perceptions of Victimhood in Joseph O'Neill's Blood-Dark Track, International Conference on “Ireland and Victims: Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation?” : 2010. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. ‘This dream of Arctic rest’ : Memory, Metaphor and Mental Illness in Jenny Diski’s Skating to Antarctica, Part of: Northern studies monographs, Umeå University and Royal Skyttean Society, 2009. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. ‘Your stay must be a becoming’ : Ageing and Desire in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, Nordic Journal of English Studies, 2009, Vol. 8, No. 3, 21-37. Article : refereed.
Gray, Billy. ‘Close-cropped grass comes up again fresh and sweet’ : Hubert Butler’s Perspective on Nationalism, Post-Nationalism and a Globalised Ireland, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (CJIS), 2009, Vol. 35, No. 1, 61-70. Article : refereed.
Gray, Billy. ‘Close-cropped grass comes up again fresh and sweet’ : Hubert Butler’s Perspective on Nationalism, Post-Nationalism and a Globalised Ireland, Eighth International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI) : 2009. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. ‘Close-cropped grass comes up again fresh and sweet’ : Hubert Butler’s Perspective on Nationalism, Post-Nationalism and a Globalised Ireland, International DUCIS conference on “Myth and Reality: Language, Literature and Culture” : 2009. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. Skeletons in the Historical Cupboard : Aspects of Familial and National Memory in Joseph O’Neill’s Blood-Dark Track, Part of: Recovering Memory: Irish Representations of Past and Present, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. Skeletons in the Historical Cupboard : Aspects of Irish and Communal Memory in Joseph O’Neill’s Blood-Dark Track, Part of: Collective Traumas: Memories of War and Conflict in Twentieth-Century Europe, Peter Lang, 2007. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. ‘The fragments they shore up against their ruins’ : Loyalism, Alienation and Fear of Change in Gary Mitchell’s As the Beast Sleeps and The Force of Change, Études Irlandaises, 2007, Vol. 32, No. 1, 127-39. Article : refereed.
Gray, Billy. Skeletons in the Historical Cupboard : Aspects of Familial and National Memory in Joseph O’Neill’s Blood Dark Track, Ireland and Eastern European Literary Connections : 2007. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. Skeletons in the Historical Cupboard: Aspects of Familial and National Memory in Joseph O’Neill’s Blood-Dark Track, First International Conference on Nation and Identity : 2006. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. If the Old Could / If the Young Knew : Narrative, Biology and Ageing in the Works of Doris Lessing, Part of: Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience, Publicacions de la la Universitat de Lleida, 2005. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. ‘The lukewarm conviction of temporary lodgers’ : The Anglo-Irish and Dimensions of Exile in the Work of Hubert Butler, Part of: Dolphin, Aarhus University Press, 2005. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. ‘Can you hear me?’: Francie Brady’s Experience of Friendship, Rejection and Isolation in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy, Part of: Acta philosophica Universitatis Lulensis, Lulea University of Technology, 2005. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. The Ravages of Second-Hand Experience : Hubert Butler’s Perception of Universalism and Distance, Nordic Irish Studies, 2005, Vol. 4, No. 1, 29-36. Article : refereed.
Gray, Billy. ‘The lukewarm conviction of temporary lodgers’ : Hubert Butler and the Anglo-Irish Sense of Exile, New Hibernia Review, 2005, Vol. 9, No. 2, 84-97. Article : refereed.
Gray, Billy. Lucky the culture where the old can talk to the young and the young can talk to the old : In conversation with Doris Lessing, Part of: The Polemics of Ageing: as Reflected in Literatures in English, Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2004. Chapter of book.
Gray, Billy. ‘Lucky the culture where the old can talk to the young and the young can talk to the old’ : In conversation with Doris Lessing, Doris Lessing Studies, 2004, Vol. 24, No. 1-2, 23-30. Article : refereed.
Gray, Billy. If the old could/if the young knew : Narrative, Biology and Ageing in the Later Works of Doris Lessing, “The Art of Ageing: An interdisciplinary, International Conference on the Phases of Life” : 2003. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. ‘The lukewarm conviction of temporary lodgers’ : The Anglo-Irish and Dimensions of Exile in the Essays of Hubert Butler, Fourth EFACIS conference (European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies) : 2003. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. The Ravages of Second-Hand Experience : Hubert Butler’s Perception of Universalism and Distance, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) : 2002. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. ‘The Ravages of Second-Hand Experiences’ : Universalism and Distance in the Work of Hubert Butler, Third EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies) Conference : 2001. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. Feminist or Anti-Feminist? Depictions of Feminist Consciousness in the Fiction of Doris Lessing, Conference of the Swedish Language Association : 1998. Conference paper : refereed.

Course Coordinator

English III: Focus on Literature (EN2029)
English: Advanced Literary Theory (EN3064)
English: Bachelor Degree Thesis in Literature (EN2028)
English: Contemporary Irish Fiction (EN3029)
English: Literature and Theory - Graduate Level (EN3015)
English: One-Year Master Degree Thesis in Literature (EN3063)
English: Scholarly Writing in Literary Theory and Criticism - Graduate Level (EN3014)
Literature and Theory (EN2025)
World Literatures in English (EN3062)

Programme Director

One-Year Master Programme in English with Specialisation in Irish Literature (HEIIA)