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Billy Gray

Associate Professor English, English

Senior Lecturer English, English

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, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2018. Chapter of book.
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. '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. 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 Strange Recurring Residues of the Past in the Present' : Irma Kurtz and the Narration of the Self, 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, 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.
Zamorano Llena, Carmen (red), Gray, Billy (red). Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland : Studies in Literature and Culture, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016.
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. 'A thrilling beauty'? : Violence, Transcendence and the Shankill Butchers in Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man, 2014. Conference paper : refereed.
Gray, Billy. Skeletons in the Historical Cupboard : Transculturality in Joseph O'Neill's Blood Dark Track, 2014. Conference paper : 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. “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. ‘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. ‘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. 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. ‘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. ‘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. ‘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. ‘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. ‘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. ‘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. 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. 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. ‘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, First International Conference on Nation and Identity : 2006. Conference paper : refereed.
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’ : 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. 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. ‘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 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, Doris Lessing Studies, 2004, Vol. 24, No. 1-2, 23-30. 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. ‘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. 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 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: Contemporary Irish Fiction (EN3029)
English: Literature and Theory - Graduate Level (EN3015)
English: One-Year Master Degree Thesis in Literature (EN3053)
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)