Alison Jack

Bible as Intertext in the work of Seamus Heaney: Seeking the Bible in Poetry
Jack, A., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Bloomsbury . (Scriptural Traces)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
‘Seeking the Sick’ in its intertextual context
Jack, A., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Stories of Origin: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Literature and Religion. Tonning, E. (ed.). ibidem Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Practice-based investigations of art and the sacred at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Froehlich, C. & Jack, A., 14 Oct 2025, Art Seeking Understanding: Conceptual, Empirical, and Experimental Approaches. Brewer, C. R. (ed.). Wm B Eerdmans
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Scottish Religious Poetry: From the Sixth Century to the Present
Bicket, L. (Editor), Dymock, E. (Editor) & Jack, A. (Editor), 19 Jun 2024, Saint Andrew Press. 320 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
Building interdisciplinary Higher Education programs
Jack, A., 2024, (Accepted/In press) The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biblical Studies. Shively, E. & de Sousa, R. F. (eds.). Routledge
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Online Literature & Religion reading group
Jack, A. (Invited speaker) & Bicket, L. (Invited speaker)
4 Dec 2025
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
The Prodigal Son in English literature
Jack, A. (Invited speaker)
13 Nov 2025
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
‘No… No… No… But’: The Bible resisted and revisited in the work of Seamus Heaney and Norman MacCaig.
Jack, A. (Keynote speaker)
7 Nov 2025
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
New College Festival of Books and Belief
Jack, A. (Organiser) & McFarland, L. (Organiser)
7 Nov 2025 → 8 Nov 2025
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts Research Seminar
Jack, A. (Speaker)
31 Oct 2025
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Quaker Silence in the Novels of Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Jack, A. (Principal Investigator)
British Academy
1/09/25 → 31/08/28
Project: Research
Scottish Religious Poetry: An Anthology
Bicket, L. (Principal Investigator) & Jack, A. (Co-investigator)
Royal Society Of Edinburgh
1/01/23 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
Scottish Religious Poetry: An Anthology - The Drummond Trust funding
Jack, A. (Principal Investigator)
The Drummond Trust
22/09/22 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
Understanding the ‘spiritual’ through the creative art
MacDonald, J. (Co-investigator), Jack, A. (Principal Investigator), Richardson, C. M. (Co-investigator), Mitchell, J. (Co-investigator) & Mccormick, L. (Co-investigator)
7/06/21 → 6/06/23
Project: Research
Understanding the Spiritual through the Creative Arts
Froehlich, C. (Co-investigator) & Jack, A. (Principal Investigator)
1/06/21 → 1/12/22
Project: Research

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