Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
JAMES COLEMAN is a freelance historian specialising in the cultural history of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Scotland. His book, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commemoration, Nationality and Memory was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2014.
COLIN KIDD is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He is the holder, with Professor Gerry Carruthers (Glasgow), of a Carnegie Larger Grant to explore the topic of ‘Literature and Union’, out of which this special issue on ‘Britishness’ in Scottish Literature is the first publication to emerge. It will shortly be followed by a collection of essays on Literature and Union published by Oxford University Press.
WILLIAM K. MALCOLM graduated PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 1982. His critical analysis of the work of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Blasphemer & Reformer, was published in 1984 and he edited the Penguin Classics edition of Sunset Song in 2007. His critical study, Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Revolutionary Writer and companion miscellany Lewis Grassic Gibbon: The Reader were published by Capercaillie Books in 2016. A long-standing director of the Grassic Gibbon Centre at Arbuthnott, he is currently working on a biography of Leslie Mitchell authorised by the Mitchell family.
SEAN MURPHY is a doctoral candidate in the school of History at the University of St Andrews. He holds degrees from the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, and is working on a thesis entitled ‘Broadly Speaking: Scots language and British imperialism.’
IAN C. ROBERTSON graduated in English from St Andrews and took a B.Litt degree at Oxford, where his thesis was a critical edition of The Minstrel, after which he pursued what proved to be a varied business career. In more recent years, befriended by the late Roger Robinson, he was a minor participant in the latter’s astonishing mission to bring James [End Page 143] Beattie to the attention of scholars at large. Now in partial retirement, he has resumed his interest in Beattie and is also working on the life and literary output of John Leyden. He lives in Oxford.
JEREMY SMITH is Professor of English Philology in the University of Glasgow. He has published extensively on the history of English and of Scots, and his books include An Historical Study of English: Function, Form and Change (1996), Sound Change and the History of English (2007), Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader (2012), and textbooks on Old, Middle and Early Modern English. His current research is in the field of historical pragmatics.
BENJAMINE TOUSSAINT researches and teaches at the Université Paris-Sorbonne.
VIVIEN WILLIAMS is a Research Assistant on the project ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century’ at the University of Glasgow, where she completed a Ph.D. on ‘The Cultural History of the Bagpipe in Britain, 1680–1840’. She is one of the Grete Sondheimer Fellowship holders at London’s Warburg Institute, and she has recently completed the Daiches-Manning Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University. [End Page 144]
