Sandro Eich

I'm a doctoral researchers in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, researching narratives of whistleblowing in contemporary non-fiction, fiction, and media, under the supervision of Dr James Purdon. I also work as Academic Policy Officer (Quality) leading and supporting projects which deliver the University’s Education and Student Experience strategic priorities, and ensuring the University meets its own and external education quality assurance requirements.

I read English Studies and Linguistics & Phonetics at the University of Cologne and University College London, and hold an MA in English Studies and Comparative Studies.

I'm a passionate educator and have a wide range of experience teaching literature, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary theory and methodology. Speficially, I have the following experience:

School of English

• EN1003 Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature (Martinmas Semester 2021; 2022)
• EN2004 Drama: Reading and Performance (Candlemas 2022; 2023; 2024)
• EN3215 Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War (Martinmas 2023)
• EN4437 American Fiction 1950-2000: Postmodernism and Beyond (Martinmas 2023)

Center for Educational Enhancement Development/International Education and Life-Long Learning Institute (CEED/IELLI):

• Academic Skills Project Workshop Leader (Academic Year 2021/2022/2023)
  • Interdisciplinarity in/as English Studies
  • Referencing and working with secondary resources
  • Revising and editing university essays
• ID2007: Enterprise and Creatvitiy (Martinmas 2023)

Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies 

• GD5996: Interdisciplinary Research Methods (Martinmas 2023)

Scottish Universities International Summer School

• Contemporary British and Irish Theatre & Performance (August 2023 & 2024)

Lecturing

• Sutton Trust Summer School May 2023 - University of St Andrews
• Sutton Trust Summer School July 2022 - University of St Andrews

My research and teaching interests include representations of espionage and secrecy from the 18th to the 21st century, media and form, contemporary forms of cultural production, theatre studies, and inter-, cross-, and transdisciplinary approaches towards reading and interpreting fiction. I am particularly invested in the productive deconstruction of disciplinary boundaries in the humanities and seek to explore new ways of reading fiction outside its historical and cultural context(s).

I have experience working as a research assistant, particularly in regard to Higher Education research and producing literature reviews:

• Interdisciplinary Education for Postgraduates — Principal Investigator: Dr Morven Shearer, Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies (April 2024- ) 
• 'On Becoming a Digital Subject' — Principal Investigator: Professor Kirstie Ball (March-June 2023)

I am affiliated with the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance & Privacy (CRISP) of the University of St Andrews. I was the Postgraduate Academic Convenor for the St Andrews Students' Association during the academic year 2022/23. Additionally, I am a member of, and since September 2023, the secrectary for the Executive Council of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies. I am also a member of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures and the British Comparative Literature Association. 

In my role as Academic Policy Officer (Quality), I am a member of Academic Assurance Group, Academic Monitoring Group, and the CELPiE Steering Group.