Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
J. H. ALEXANDER is an Honorary Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen. He was one of the general editors of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. He is currently serving on the advisory board of the Clarendon Dickens.
IAN DUNCAN is Florence Green Bixby Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007) and Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel (1992), co-editor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (2004), and The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg (2012), and a general editor of the Collected Works of James Hogg. He is completing a new book on the novel and human nature, from Buffon to Darwin.
CAROLINE MCCRACKEN-FLESHER is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She researches widely on Scottish literature and culture. Her books include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow, and The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Mare Murders. She has edited volumes on the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Science Fiction, and Robert Louis Stevenson. She is working on an edition of Kidnapped for Edinburgh University Press.
PETER GARSIDE is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has edited several volumes for EEWN, including Guy Mannering and Waverley, and is the co-editor of English and British Fiction 1750–1820 (OUP, 2015). He is currently engaged in preparing an edition of Scott’s shorter verse with Gillian Hughes.
NANCY MOORE GOSLEE is Professor of English Emerita at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she also held a Distinguished Humanities Professorship. She has published essays and monographs in two broad areas: visual and verbal relationships in Romantic poetry, including aspects of material textuality, and Scottish Romanticism. In addition to [End Page 187] Uriel’s Eye: Miltonic Stationing and Statuary in Blake, Keats, and Shelley, she has edited one of Shelley’s notebooks in the Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts series and has published Shelley’s Visual Imagination. Returning to interests begun with Scott the Rhymer, she is now completing a study tracing the aesthetic and ideological refiguring of William Wallace as an icon of liberty in Romantic-era writers.
DAVID HEWITT was formerly Regius Chalmers Professor of English Literature, and Editor-in-chief of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (thirty volumes: Edinburgh University Press, 1993–2012). He is chair of the Advisory Board of the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry, and was appointed Managing Editor of the Clarendon Dickens in 2014.
GILLIAN HUGHES is an independent scholar. A founder member of the James Hogg Society, she edited its annual journal Studies in Hogg and his World from its inception in 1990 up to 2010. She was formerly a general editor of the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg, for which she has edited or co-edited nine volumes, including the three-volume Collected Letters of James Hogg (2004– 08). Her biography James Hogg: A Life was published in 2007. She is an advisory editor for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson and for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry, for which she is currently co-editing a volume of the Shorter Poems with Peter Garside.
LUCY MACRAE was awarded a PhD for her thesis entitled ‘Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory’ in 2014. She carried out this research as part of the AHRC/DFG ‘Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’ project, run jointly between the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and the University of Edinburgh.
ANN RIGNEY is professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. She has published widely in the field of cultural memory studies. Recent publications include The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move (Oxford UP, 2012) and (with Joep Leerssen), Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building and Centenary Fever (Palgrave, 2014). www.rigney.nl [End Page 188]
DEIRDRE SHEPHERD obtained her PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include Walter Scott and James Hogg. She is currently working on several projects, one of...
