Gillian Tasker

Gillian Tasker is in first year of doctoral research at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, working on the current title “Far Out”: The Life and Writing of Alexander Trocchi. As part of her research she is analysing Trocchi’s relationship, both personal and literary, to the Beat Generation. Below a list of her main academic interests:

* Alexander Trocchi
* The Sixties
* 20th Century American
* 20th Century Avant-Garde
* Beat Generation
* English Literature
* Black Mountain
* British Avant Garde
* Scottish Literature
* Comparative Literature
* European Decadence
* Literary Philosophy
* British Experimental Fiction