Undergraduate Teaching
During the 2022-23 academic year I will be convening, leading seminars, lecturing or delivering digital content for:
- ARTU9EC: Documenting the Eighteenth Century
- ENGU9A1: Introduction to Literary Studies – Genre
- ENGU9WI: Writing and Theory
- ENGU9WH: Scotland and Empire (convener)
- ENGU9ER: Renaissance Literature
- ENGU9N2: Scotland’s Lost Renaissance (convener)
- ENGU9DP: Dissertation Preparation
Masters Teaching
I am the programme director for the MRes Humanities at Stirling and welcome enquiries from prospective students. During the 2022-23 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 (both semesters)
Doctoral Supervision
I am currently supervising the following doctoral projects:
- 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
- Katharina Pruente, Kin, Clients, Friends, and Allies: The Social Networks of Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll
Former doctoral students who have now completed their studies include:
- Mhairi Rutherford, Intellectual Culture and Episcopal Identity in Scottish Episcopal Libraries: The Case of the Brechin Library, 1780-1800 (PhD, 2022)
- Lorna Wallace, The Ideals of Duty: Renaissance History Plays and the Politics of Duty (PhD, 2021)
- Mairi Macleod, The Metaphysical Landscapes of Neil M. Gunn (PhD, 2020)
- Fanny Lacôte, Dark Channel Crossings: The Reception of the English Gothic Novel and French roman noir in Postrevolutionary France, 1789-1821 (PhD, 2018)
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.
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