Jamie Redgate grew up on the north edge of Scotland. He moved south to study English at the University of 
Strathclyde, and from there to the University of Glasgow to do an MLitt in American Studies and a PhD in English Literature. The latter was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the resulting book, Wallace and I (2019), is now available in paperback from Routledge.
I was blown away by it. It’s a complete map of Wallace’s vision of cognition, and it’s just really accessible and smart, so, look for that one.
—Prof. Marshall Boswell, Concavity Show #46.
This elegant volume is a tour de force, cleanly argued, thoroughly grounded, and written with the kind of refreshing lucidity that many seasoned academics struggle to employ.
—Dr Clare Hayes-Brady, The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies 1:3.
Jamie currently holds a Leverhulme Lectureship in North American Literature at the University of Glasgow, where he also co-runs the Studies of Meat in the Arts and Culture (StOMAC) reading group. Before he held this position, Jamie taught English and American Literature at Glasgow as a Tutor and, for a semester in 2023, he convened a course on Toni Morrison’s fiction at the University of Stirling.
Jamie is particularly interested in the history of the novel and the role that the sciences of mind and the invention of animals have played in that story. His second monograph Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary American Novel is under contract with Palgrave, and in it he explores the literary and literal treatment of ‘food animals,’ cannibals and guilt in the American romantic tradition, and writerly engagement with meat-eating and moral schizophrenia. He has recently been awarded funding by Glasgow’s Strategic Research Fund and the British Society of Literature and Science to support a trip to Katherine Dunn’s archive in Portland, Oregon, where he will begin work on a project concerning ‘The Phantom Lives of Animals’.
Jamie has written and lectured on a variety of topics, including the relationship between fantasy literature and literary fiction, Japan’s encounter with Christianity, Einstein and Modernist Literature, and the tennis novel, and his essays have been published by Critique and Cambridge University Press, Electric Literature, Unwinnable, Extra Teeth, and elsewhere. Jamie’s fiction has been published on both sides of the Atlantic, in Ninth Letter, Propagule, and twice by Gutter: The Magazine of New Scottish Writing, and he has been longlisted for the Blinkpot Award, the Moniack Mhor Emerging Writer Award (2022), won third prize in the Imprint Writing Competition, and been chosen as the “Best of 2021” by The Rush. He is working on a novel or two.