Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

During the 2020-21 academic year I will be convening, leading seminars or delivering digital content for:

  • 901: Intro to English (co-convenor)
  • 903: Literary Revolutions
  • 9WH: Writing and History: Scotland and Empire (co-convenor)
  • 9WI: Writing and Theory (co-convenor)
  • 9HA: Renaissance Literature, 1500-1660 (co-convenor)
  • 9HC: British Literature, 1700-1830
  • 9N2: Scottish Literature from Renaissance to Union (convenor)
  • 9DP: Dissertation Preparation
  • 9A8: English Studies Dissertations

Masters Teaching

I am the programme director for the MRes Humanities at Stirling and welcome enquiries from prospective students. During the 2020-21 academic year I will be convening the following masters level modules:

  • ARTP001: Training for Masters in the Arts and Humanities I
  • ARTP002: Training for Masters in the Arts and Humanities II
  • HUMPP12: Research Preparation I
  • HUMPP14: Research Preparation II
  • HUMPP13: MRes Dissertations

I am also teaching masters level workshops on:

  • Palaeography (both semesters)
  • Descriptive Bibliography (Autumn 2020)

Doctoral Supervision

I am currently supervising the following doctoral projects:

  • Lorna Wallace, The Ideals of Duty: Renaissance History Plays and the Politics of Duty
  • Mhairi Rutherford, Provenance and Marginalia in Episcopalian Libraries: Recovering the Intellectual History of the Scottish Episcopalian Church (1700-1880)
  • James Johnson, A Comparative Study of Carved Stones in Scotland and Wales
  • Maike Dinger, Fiction(s) of Political Participation: Literature, Media and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
  • Francesca Pontini, Reading the Margins: Investigating Reading Practices in Early Sixteenth-Century Scotland

Former doctoral students who have now completed their studies include:

Outreach

I run regular letterpress workshops and classes with my fellow printer Dr. Dawn Hollis (University of St Andrews) for members of the university, students, and the general public.  I also consult for community groups interested in preserving and/or interpreting the carved stones in their areas.

Past Teaching

Prior to arriving at Stirling I taught early modern and Romantic literature at Jesus College, Oxford, and early modern history at the University of St Andrews.  While at St Andrews I also developed an honours module on the transnational cultural history of northern Europe which continues to run.

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