Undergraduate Teaching
During the 2023-24 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)
- ENGU9EB: British Literature, 1700-1830
- ENGU9ER: Renaissance Literature
- ENGU9N2: Scotland’s Lost Renaissance (convener)
- ENGU9DP: Dissertation Preparation (convener)
Masters Teaching
I am the programme director for the MRes Humanities at Stirling and welcome enquiries from prospective students. During the 2023-24 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
- 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:
- 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
- Maria Gema Silva Ferrandez, The Rise and Fall of Walter Scott and Lord Byron
Former doctoral students who have now completed their studies include:
- Maike Dinger, Fiction(s) of Political Participation: Literature, Media and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum (PhD, 2024)
- 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 the Pathfoot Press interns and occasionally with fellow printer Dr. Dawn Hollis of the Crail Press for members of the university, students, and the general public. I also consult for libraries on all aspects of cataloguing, conservation, and preservation of early printed books and 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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