Essay Contributors
- Essay Contributors
Drummond Bone is Master of Balliol College, Oxford. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, Principal of Royal Holloway University of London and a President of Universities UK. He was for many years in the English Department of the University of Glasgow, is a founding editor of Romanticism and a former academic editor of The Byron Journal, and is currently the President of the Scottish Byron Society and a Vice-President of the Byron Society. He was the contributing editor of the Cambridge Companion to Byron (2004) and is the author of Byron (2000).
Nigel Leask is Regius Professor of English Language and Literature and Head of the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on Romantic literature and culture with a special focus on travel writing, empire and the exotic. He is currently working on Scottish literature in the long eighteenth century and his most recent publication, Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland (2010), was winner of the National Library of Scotland/Saltire Prize for best research book of 2010. He is also currently editing Burns’s ‘Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscellaneous Prose’ for the AHRC-funded ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century’ project at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow.
Pauline Mackay is a Research Associate for the AHRC-funded project ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century’, based in the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at University of Glasgow. Prior to this she worked as a Research Associate for the AHRC ‘Beyond Text’ project, ‘Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796–1909’. As part of this project she co-curated a series of temporary exhibitions entitled ‘Robert Burns Beyond Text’ with the National Trust for Scotland, the Mitchell Library and the University of Glasgow (2010–11). Dr Mackay is also Secretary to the Distributed National Burns Collection Research Group, and in 2010 was the recipient of the W. Ormiston Roy Memorial Fellowship for Research in the area of Robert Burns and Scottish Poetry at the University of South Carolina. Her PhD thesis was on ‘Bawdry and the Body in the Work of Robert Burns: The Poet’s Unofficial Self’ and she has published widely in Burns Studies.
Mirosława Modrzewska teaches nineteenth-century British literature at the Institute of English at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. She has published extensively on the works of Romantics such as Burns, Byron, Scott and Juliusz Słowacki, co-edited and translated (with Peter Cochran, Bill Johnston and Catherine O’Neil) Poland’s Angry [End Page vii] Romantic: Two Poems and a Play by Juliusz Słowacki (2009) and is the author of the Polish section of Stephen Prickett (ed.), European Romanticism: A Reader (2010). She is currently working on the influence of the seventeenth-century Baroque on Byron and the reception of Burns in Poland.
Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a prizewinner of that society and of the British Academy. He has also won, or been nominated or shortlisted for, more than ten other literary prizes. He has previously held chairs or other senior appointments at Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Manchester Universities. He is the author or editor of a number of prominent works on Jacobitism and Romanticism, including The Reception of Scott in Europe (2007), James Boswell (2007), Scottish and Irish Romanticism (2008, 2011), The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism (2011) and Robert Burns in Global Culture (2011). He is currently editing Songs for the Scots Musical Museum for the new AHRC-funded Collected Works of Robert Burns and editing The Reception of Robert Burns in Europe for Continuum.
Martin Procházka is Professor of English, American and Comparative Literature and Head of the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University, Prague. He is the author of Romantismus a osobnost (‘Romanticism and Personality’, 1996), Transversals (2007), essays on post-structuralist readings of English and American Romantics and co-author (with Zdendek Hrbata) of Romantismus a romantismy (‘Romanticism and Romanticisms’, 2005). With Zdeněk Stříbrný he edited...
