Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
ANNA FANCETT works primarily on Walter Scott, Jane Austen, representations of the family in Romantic literature, and the relationship between oral and written narratives. She completed her PhD at the University of Aberdeen, and currently works at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
ALEXANDER HAY lectures in Journalism at Southampton Solent University and his research focuses on how journalism intersects with a wide of other subjects, ranging from folklore to martial arts, urban environments and the sea. He is presently examining the role newspapers play in both shaping and reflecting public attitudes, and their role in society as a whole.
CRAIG LAMONT is a lecturer and teacher of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. His PhD thesis on Georgian Glasgow won the Universities’ Committee for Scottish Literature G. Ross Roy Medal for 2016. Following the completion of his Collaborative Doctoral Award with the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Life (Museums), he has worked as a research assistant on projects funded by the AHRC and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
BARBARA LEONARDI is an AHRC-funded Early Career Researcher working on the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Her AHRC-funded doctoral thesis ‘An Exploration of Gender Stereotypes in the Work of James Hogg’ was awarded the 2014 G. Ross Roy Medal. In Stirling, she teaches modules on British Romanticism and Stylistics. Her research interests are on gender stereotypes in the long nineteenth century, military masculinities, the National Tale and marriage plot, gender and politeness, James Hogg, and Scottish Romanticism.
GERARD LEE MCKEEVER is a Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded ‘Editing Robert Burns for the Twenty-first Century’ project at the University of Glasgow. Recent work includes articles on Robert Burns, John [End Page 189] Galt and James Hogg for Studies in Romanticism, Studies in Scottish Literature and Studies in Hogg and his World. He is currently preparing a scholarly monograph on Scottish Romanticism and ‘improvement’, while a collection of essays on the subject, co-edited with Alex Benchimol, is forthcoming with Pickering & Chatto.
DOYEETA MAJUMDER completed her PhD from the University of St Andrews, and subsequently held a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Shiv Nadar University, India.
CLAUDIA ROSENHAN is a teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She has published on early-twentieth century authors, such as Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Her research interests include identity and representation in narrative fiction, as well as ecophenomenology. She is author of All her Faculties: The Representation of the Female Mind in the Twentieth-Century English Novel (2014).
PATRICK SCOTT is Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of South Carolina, and joint editor of Studies in Scottish Literature. Recent publications include ‘A Bard Unkened’: Selected Poems in the Scottish Dialect by Gavin Turnbull (Scottish Poetry Reprints, 2015).
JULIET SHIELDS is author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Nation and Migration: the Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765–1835 (Oxford University Press, 2016). She teaches British and American literature at the University of Washington, and she is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the National Library of Scotland, where she is working on a book on nineteenth-century Scottish women writers. [End Page 190]
