Undergraduate Teaching

During the 2021-22 academic year I will be convening, leading seminars or delivering digital content for:

• 901: Intro to English
• 903: Literary Revolutions
• 9WH: Writing and History: Scotland and Empire (co-convenor)
• 9WI: Writing and Theory (co-convenor)
• 9HA: Renaissance Literature, 1500-1660
• 9HC: British Literature, 1700-1830
• 9N2: The Crisis of the European Mind (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 2021-22 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 2021)

Doctoral Supervision

I am currently supervising the following doctoral projects:

• 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
• Ross Shand, Scottish Gothic

Former doctoral students who have now completed their studies include:

• 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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