Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
NATALIYA BELOSHITSKAYA has a PhD in Linguistics and is Head of the Department of English Language, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia. She specialises in Discourse Studies and Pragmalinguistics and is the author of over twenty-five scientific papers. Her most recent publications are on metadiscourse markers.
MARINA ELEPOVA is a Dr. Hab. of Philology and Head of the Department of Literature Department, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Marina is the member of the Russian Union of Writers. Her research interests include the textual representation of the North in Russian writing and Russian classical literature of the nineteenth century. Her most recent monography is 'Rossijskoje solnce na voskhode'. M.V. Lomonosov i ego mir ('The Russian Sun is on the Rise': Mikhail Lomonosov and his world), published in Arkhangelsk.
ROBERT P. IRVINE is Reader in Scottish Literature at Edinburgh University, specialising in eighteenth-century poetry and early nineteenth-century fiction, mostly from Scotland. His most recent publication is an edition of Annals of the Parish for the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt.
COLIN KIDD is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. His books include Subverting Scotland's Past (1993), Union and Unionisms (2008) and The World of Mr Casaubon (2016). With Gerard Carruthers, he co-edited the International Companion to John Galt (2017) and Literature and Union: Scottish Texts, British Contexts (2018).
PAUL KLEMP is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He divides his scholarly attention between Italian literature and early modern British literature. His most recent book is The Theatre of Death: Rituals of Justice from the English Civil War to the Restoration. In addition to publishing an essay on Gavin Douglas's Middle Scots translation of the Aeneid, he has published essays on Lancelot Andrewes, Edmund Spenser, Dante, Petrarch, and Italo Calvino, as well as bibliographies on John Milton, Fulke Greville, and Sir John Davies. The Associate and now Senior Editor of Milton Quarterly for over three decades, he was the Associate General Editor and then the General Editor of the first three volumes of A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton. He has also written for Living Blues music magazine.
SARAH LEITH has recently completed a PhD in Scottish history at the University of St Andrews. Her thesis is entitled '"Tied up with pink ribbons": Repression, counterculture and Scottish national identity, c. 1926–c. 1967'. The research for this thesis, including this current article, was funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities through an Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship.
PETRA JOHANA PONCAROVÁ is based at Charles University, Prague. She is currently the depute convenor for Europe of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures, co-director of Ionad Eòghainn MhicLachlain, The National Centre for Gaelic Translation, and international affiliated member of The Scottish Revival Network. She is the author of the Scotnote Study Guide The Gaelic Poetry of Derick Thomson (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2020) and has published book chapters and articles on Derick Thomson, Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar, Tormod Caimbeul, and Sorley MacLean. She also translates directly from Gaelic into Czech. Her monograph Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press (2022).
Professor CLAIRE SQUIRES is Director of the Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and Director of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. Her publications include Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain (2007) and, as co-editor, the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond (2019). With Beth Driscoll, she is co-founder of the conceptual school Ullapoolism, with their jointly authored publications including Publishing Bestsellers: Buzz and the Frankfurt Book Fair (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and articles on book festivals, sexual harassment in publishing, and the smell of books.
