CURRICULUM VITAE
Leith Davis
Professor, Department of English
Director, Research Centre for Scottish Studies
Simon Fraser University
Education
PhD University of California, Berkeley
MA. University of California, Berkeley
BA Hons University of Saskatchewan
PART 1: PUBLICATIONS
Books (4)
1. Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688 to 1840. Cambridge University Press, 2025. 104 pp.
2. Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland, 1688-1745. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 307 pp.
3. Music, Postcolonialism, Gender: The Construction of Irish Identity, 1707-1855. University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 323 pp.
4. Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830. Stanford University Press, 1998. 212 pp.
Co-Edited Books (3)
1. The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. Leith Davis and Janet Sorenson. Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2021. 442 pp.
2. Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture. Ed. Sharon Alker, Leith Davis and Holly Nelson. Ashgate, 2012. 320 pp.
3. Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism. Ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 260 pp.
Edited Journals
1. Special Issue on “New Perspectives on ‘The Lyon in Mourning’” for the International Review of Scottish Studies. Co-Ed. Kevin James. 2022.
Refereed Journal Articles (22)
1. “‘A Piece of History the Most Remarkable & Interesting That Ever Happened in Any Age or Country’”: ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript of Robert Forbes,” Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
2. “Introduction: New Perspectives on ‘The Lyon in Mourning,’” International Review of Scottish Studies. Special Issue on “New Perspectives on ‘The Lyon in Mourning,’” 47 (2022), 1-21.
3. “‘Female Rebels’: Highlighting Women’s Voices in Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’” (with Research Assistants Taylor Breckles, Shauna Irani, Emma Trotter and Julianna Wagar), International Review of Scottish Studies. Special Issue on “New Perspectives on ‘The Lyon in Mourning,’” 47 (2022), 77-92.
4. “Inscripting Rebellion: The Newdigate Manuscript Newsletters, Printed Newspapers and the Cultural Memory of the 1715 Rising,” Parliamentary History, 41.1 (2022), 150-166.
5. “Women, Oral Culture and Book History in the Romantic-Era British Archipelago: Charlotte Brooke, Anne Grant and Felicia Hemans” in The Huntington Library Quarterly, 84.1 (2021), 177-188.
6. “Transnational Articulations in James Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian and The History and Management of the East-India Company, “The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 60.4 (2019), 441-460.
7. “Between Archive and Repertoire: Astley’s Amphitheatre, Early Circus, and Romantic-Era Song Culture,” Studies in Romanticism, 58.4 (2019), 451-480.
8. “The ‘Unfetter’d’ Muse’: Robert Burns and Pre-Confederation Scottish-Canadian Poets” in Studies in Canadian Literature, 44.1 (2019), 100-121.
9. “Memory Studies and the Eighteenth Century” Literature Compass, (Jan. 2019), 1-16.
10. “Cultural Memory and Cultural Amnesia: Ireland and the ‘Glorious Revolution” in Studies in EighteenthCentury Culture 47 (2017 volume published 2018), 185-205
11. “Back to the Future: Remembering the 1707 Act of Union in the 2014 Referendum Campaign,” Studies in Scottish Literature, 41.1 (2015), 237–249.
12. “Scottish Literature and ‘Engl. Lit.’” in Studies in Scottish Literature, 38.1 (2012), 20-27.
13. “Imagining the Miscellaneous Nation: James Watson’s Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems,” Eighteenth-Century Life, 35.3 (2011), 60-80.
14. “Negotiating Cultural Memory: James Currie’s Works of Robert Burns,” International Journal of Scottish Literature, Spring/Summer 2010.
15. “Sequels of Resistance: Edward Bunting’s Ancient Irish Melodies and the Irish Nation,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 23 (2001), 29-57.
16. “From Fingal’s Harp to Flora’s Song: Scotland, Music and Romanticism,” The Wordsworth Circle, (Summer, 2000), 93-97.
17. “Gender and the Nation in the Work of Robert Burns and Janet Little,” Studies in English Literature, (Autumn, 1998), 621-645.
18. “The Politics of Hypochondriasis: James Currie’s Works of Robert Burns,” Studies in Romanticism, 32 (Spring, 1997), 43-60.
19. “`Bounded to a District Space’: Burns, Wordsworth and the Margins of English Literature,” English Studies in Canada, 20.1 (March, 1994), 23-40.
20. “Birth of the Nation: Gender and Writing in the Work of Henry and Charlotte Brooke,” Eighteenth-Century Life, 18.1 (Feb. 1994), 27-47.
21. “Irish Bards and English Consumers: Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies and the Colonized Nation,” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 24.2 (April, 1993), 7-25.
22. “Origins of the Specious: James Macpherson’s Ossian and the Forging of the British Empire, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 34.2 (1993), 132-150.
Digital Humanities Projects (5)
1. “The Lyon in Mourning“ (Principal Investigator): an ongoing SSHRC-funded project to digitize, encode and analyze an eighteenth-century Jacobite manuscript to highlight the voices of women, Gaelic-speakers and working-class individuals in eighteenth-century Scotland.
2. “Reconstructing Early Circus: Entertainments at Astley’s Amphitheatre, 1768-1833“ (Principal Investigator): a SSHRC-funded digital archive of advertisements describing the acts performed at the first circus venue, Astley’s Amphitheatre, between the years 1768 and 1833. The database is based on three volumes of newspaper cuttings collected by theatre manager James Winston (1779-1843) and now housed in the British Library.
3. “Scottish Voices from the West“ (Curator and Director): a collection of oral history interviews with Scots immigrants to British Columbia by members of the Scottish community; currently housed in Simon Fraser University Library’s Digitized Collections.
4. “Mediating The Company of Scotland’s Darien Expedition“ (Principal Investigator): a SSHRC-funded public access database of printed works connected with the Company of Scotland’s colonial enterprise in South America (1695-1700) currently housed in libraries throughout the UK.
5. “Scots in BC: Transatlantic Traces” (Principal Investigator): a historical overview of Scots in BC including interactive website with a moving timeline that allows users to upload their own stories of immigration to BC. (Website currently under reconstruction)
Book Chapters (23)
1. "Rehabilitating Jacobites in Romantic-Era Britain: The Cultural Memory of the 1745 Rising in Thomas Campbell's 'Lochiel's Warning' and Anne Grant's 'The Highlanders'" in Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions. Ed. Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
2. "'Sights of Memory': Robert Burns and Romantic-era Book Illustration” in The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns, ed. Gerard Carruthers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), 284-299.
3. "The Cultural Making of 'Great Britain'" in The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English, ed. Nicole Alijoe, Sarah Eron, and Suvir Kaul (Routledge, 2024), 91-103.
4. “Charlotte Brooke,” in The Routledge Research Companion to Romantic Women Writers. Eds. Ann Hawkins, Catherine Blackwell and E. Leigh Bonds. Routledge, (2023), 131-140.
5. “Introduction” in The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century. Co-Ed. Janet Sorenson. Association of Scottish Literary Studies, (2021), 1-23.
6. “Presenting the National Past: The Uses of History in Scottish Literature, 1650-1707,” in The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century. Co-Ed. Janet Sorenson. Association of Scottish Literary Studies, (2021), 56-72.
7. (with MA student Jasreen Kaur Janjua) “Fierce Females and Male Pretenders: Gender, Cultural Memory and Anti-Jacobite Print Culture in the 1745 Rising,” in The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century. Co-Ed. Janet Sorenson. Association of Scottish Literary Studies, (2021), 117-131.
8. “Mediating ‘This Sudden & Surprising Revolution’: Official Manuscript Newsletters and the Glorious Revolution,” in After Print: Manuscript Studies and Eighteenth-Century Literature. Ed. Rachael Scarborough King. University of Virginia State Press, (2020), 148-173.
9. “Poems on Nation and Empire,” in Oxford British Poetry, 1660-1800. Ed. Jack Lynch. Oxford UP, (2016), 330-319.
10. “The Aftermath of Union,” in The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature. Eds. Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney. Cambridge University Press, (2012), 56-70.
11. Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry: Eighteenth-century ‘Irish Song’ and the Politics of Remediation,” in United Islands? The Languages of Resistance. Eds. Michael Brown, John Kirk, and Andrew Noble. Pickering and Chatto, (2012), 95-108.
12. “Robert Burns,” in The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Ed. Fred Burwick. Blackwell Publishing, (2012), 189-196.
13. Introduction: “‘Ae [Electric] Spark o Nature’s Fire’”: Reading Burns Across the Atlantic,” in Robert Burns in Transatlantic Culture. Eds. Sharon Alker, Leith Davis and Holly Nelson. Ashgate, (2012), 1-18.
14. “The Robert Burns 1859 Centenary: Mapping Transatlantic (Dis)location” in Robert Burns in Transatlantic Culture. Ed. Sharon Alker, Leith Davis and Holly Nelson. Ashgate, (2012), 187-208.
15. “‘Nation, Language and Nation Language’: Robert Burns and Kamau Brathwaite” (with Kristen Mahlis) in Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature. Eds. Michael Gardiner, Graeme MacDonald and Niall O’Gallagher. Edinburgh UP, (2011), 15- 29.
16. “Rules of Art: The Life of Burns on Page and Stage, 1786-1954” in Robert Burns in Global Culture. Ed. Murray Pittock. Bucknell UP, (2011), 229-246.
17. “Malvina’s Daughters: Irish Women Writers Respond to Ossian” in Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production. Ed. Jim Kelly. Palgrave Macmillan, (2010), 141-160.
18. “Robert Burns and Transnational Culture,” in Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns. Ed. Gerard Carruthers. Edinburgh UP, (2009), 150-163.
19. “Refiguring the Popular in Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry,” in Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland. Eds. Philip Connell and Nigel Leask. Cambridge UP, (2009), 72-87.
20. “Orality and Public Poetry, 1707-1918” (with Maureen McLane), in Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Vol. 2. University of Edinburgh Press, (2006), 125-132.
21. “‘Coming to the Past’: Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief and Scottish Diasporic Identity in a PostDevolution Era,” in Culture, Nation and the New Scottish Parliament. Ed. Caroline McCracken-Flesher. Bucknell UP, (2006), 95-111.
22. “At ‘Sang About’: Scottish Song and the Challenge to British Culture,” in Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism. Ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen. Cambridge University Press, (2004), 188-203.
23. “Re-Presenting Scotia: Robert Burns and the Imagined Community of Scotland,” in Critical Essays on Robert Burns. Ed. Carol McGuirk. G.K. Hall, (1998).
Forthcoming Edited Books
1. Critical edition of John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize, or The Covenanters. Edinburgh UP (under contract).
Forthcoming Co-edited Books
1. Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks. Co-Ed. Kevin James. Edinburgh University Press (in press).
Forthcoming Book Chapters (4)
1. Introduction, Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks. Co-Ed. Kevin James. Edinburgh, UP (in press).
2. “A New Approach to Old Networks: Applying Digital Humanities Methodologies to Analyze Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript” (with Joey Takeda and RAs Shauna Irani, Dana Lai, Emma Trotter, Julianna Wagar), in Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks. Co-Ed. Kevin James. Edinburgh UP (in press).
3. “‘Restory-ing’ the Rightful King? Recycling and Revising Eighteenth-Century Cultural Memories of the Jacobites in Outlander” (with student Laura Mottiez), in Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks. Co-Ed. Kevin James. Edinburgh, UP (in press).
4. “The Literature of Jacobitism” in The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Ed. Ian Duncan. Cambridge UP (forthcoming).
Digital Research Publications (8)
1. “Memorialising Through Memoirs: Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript," The Bottle Imp Issue 34 (2024)
2. “Material Memories of Darien: Letters, Lieux de Memoire and the Company of Scotland,” The Bottle Imp, Supplement 8A (Spring 2022).
3. “A New Perspective on the Scottish Diaspora,” The Bottle Imp 5 (May 2009).
4. “Isolating the ‘Light of Song’: Vincentia Rodgers’s Cluthan and Malvina,” Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Ed. Stephen Behrendt. Alexander Street Press (2008).
5. “Ellen Taylor and the Politics of Affect,” Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Ed. Stephen Behrendt. Alexander Street Press (2008).
6. “Negotiating Irishness: Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry,” Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Ed. Stephen Behrendt. Alexander Street Press (2008).
7. “Gender, Genre and the Imagining of the Scottish Nation: the Songs of Lady Nairne,” Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Eds. Stephen Behrendt and Nancy Kushigian. Alexander Street Press (2002).
8. “Nation and Translation: Margaret Turner Re(-)covers Allan Ramsay’s Gentle Shepherd.” Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Eds. Stephen Behrendt and Nancy Kushigian. Alexander Street Press (2002).
Dictionary Entries
“James Currie,” Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 142: Eighteenth-Century British Literary Biographers, 6168.
Research Blogs
1. “Early Circus in London: Astley’s Amphitheatre,” British Library Digital Scholarship Blog. 25 Nov. 2020.
2. “Spectacles of Song and the ‘Reconstructing Early Circus’ Database,” Romantic National Song Network. 14 May, 2019.
Selected Book Reviews
1. Claire Connolly, ed. Irish Literature in Transition, 1730-1830. In Studies in Romanticism, 61.4 (2022).
2. Michael Morris, Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833. In Eighteenth-Century Scotland. 32 (Spring, 2018), 24-25.
3. David Sergeant, Burns and Other Poets. In Studies in Hogg and His World, 24 (2014), 79.
4. Nigel Leask, Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland. In Studies in Hogg and His World, 23 (2013), 114.
5. Matthew Campbell, Irish Poetry Under the Union, 1801–1924. In Ariel, 46.1 (2015) 277–80.
6. Penny Fielding, “Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain 1760–1830.” In Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 22.4 (2010), 717–19.
7. Barry Menikoff, Narrating Scotland: The Imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson. In English Studies in Canada,
33.1 (2007), 257–61.
8. Ina Ferris, The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland. In Keats-Shelley Journal, 54, (2005), 194–9.
9. Janet Sorensen, The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing. In Studies in Romanticism,
42.3 (2003), 401.
10. Mary Ann Corbett, Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold. In Victorian Studies, 44.4 (2002), 684.
11. Robert Crawford, ed. Robert Burns and Cultural Authority. In Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, 41.1 (1999), 135.
12. S. H. Clark, Mark Akenside, James Macpherson, Edward Young: Selected Poetry.” In Scottish Literary Journal, 46 (1997), 15.
PART 2: KEY SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Keynote Talks (6)
1. “Female Rebels: Gender in the 1745-46 Jacobite Rising” for the launch of the “Truth or Treason? Sources for the Study of the Jacobites” exhibit, McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, April 3, 2023.
2. “Mediating Memory and Modernity in the 1745-46 Rising: Networking Jacobites,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ottawa, Oct. 29, 2022.
3. “Mapping Burns in Transatlantic Culture,” Robert Burns, 1759-2009 Conference, University of Glasgow, Jan. 2009.
4. “The 1849 Robert Burns Centenary,” Jill MacKenzie Memorial Lecture, University of Guelph, Oct. 2009.
5. “Scotland, Print Culture, and Transnational Identity in Britain after 1688: The Case of James Macpherson,” Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2007.
6. “Nation and Notation: Irish Music, British Culture and the Transatlantic Experience, 1830-1874,” Brave New Wor[l]ds: Rethinking National Consciousness, Graduate Student Conference, Simon Fraser University, Sep. 18-20, 2003.
Invited Academic Talks (29)
1. “Staging Empire in Early Transatlantic Circus,” 1st European Circus History Conference, London, Mar. 2. 2025.
2. “The Lyon in Mourning,” Visiting Researcher spotlight, University of Aberdeen, Feb. 15, 2025.
3. “Jacobitism and Cultural Memory,” Scottish American History Forum Feb. 8, 2025.
4. “Early Circus: National Roots and Transnational Routes of Early Circus," British Library Researchers Packed Lunch Series, June 12, 2024.
5. "The Future of Scottish Studies,” International Scottish Studies Forum, University of Glasgow, Dec. 11-12, 2023.
6. "Old Networks, New Media: “The Lyon in Mourning” Digital Humanities Project and Robert Forbes's Jacobite World,” Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, Dec. 7, 2023.
7. “Women and/in Jacobite Media Networks: A Digital Humanities Investigation of Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript,” Women, Literary Networks and Media Cultures Conference, Simon Fraser University, May 11-12, 2023.
8. “Networking Scottish Memory,” Scotland Week, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Feb. 25, 2023.
9. “The Lyon in Mourning Manuscript of Robert Forbes,” Jacobites, Jacobins and Outlanders, Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, Aug. 28, 2022.
10. “Networking Jacobites and ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript,” National Library of Scotland. Sep. 2021. Online.
11. “Networking Jacobites: Media, Cultural Memory and ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript,” Centre for Data, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh, May 12, 2021. Online.
12. “Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript”‘, “Scottish Literature’s Unexplored Archives,” International Association of Scottish Literatures, Apr.16, 2021. Online.
13. “Embellishing 18th-Century Literary Studies: An Embodied Humanities Approach,” Crafting Communities Project, University of Winnipeg, Apr. 2022. Online.
14. “Circus and Song: Astley’s Amphitheatre, Early Circus and Romantic-Era Song Culture,” National University of Ireland, Galway. Dec. 2019.
15. “News Networks, Cultural Memory and the 1715-16 Jacobite Uprising,” Scribal News and News Cultures in Late Stuart and Early Georgian Britain International Symposium, London, England (sponsored by the German Studies Research Institute and History of Parliament Trust in London), England, Dec. 2018.
16. “‘Be Thou Near to Learn the Song”: Women Writers and National Song in the Romantic- Era British Archipelago,” Women in Book History Symposium, Simon Fraser University, Aug. 2018.
17. “The Sound of Spectacle and the Spectacle of Sound: Phillip Astley and Circus Songs,” Song and the City Symposium, King’s College, London, Oct. 2017.
18. “Mediating 1688: Orality, Print and Manuscript,” After Print: Manuscript Culture in the Eighteenth Century, University of Santa Barbara, Apr. 2015.
19. “Un-civil Society: The Other Irish Enlightenment,” invited talk on panel on “Civil Society in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Los Angeles, Apr. 2015.
20. “‘Rules of Art’: The Life of Burns on Page and Stage, 1786-1954,” Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Jan. 2009.
21. “The Robert Burns 1859 Centenary: Mapping Transatlantic (Dis)location,” Queen’s University, Belfast, Jan. 2009.
22. “Remediating Irish Song: Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry,” Multi-lingual Radical Popular Poetry and Song in the United British Isles, Queen’s University, Belfast, Nov. 2008.
23. ““Blame not the Bard’”: Thomas Moore, the Irish Melodies and the Politics of Print Culture,” “Medium Cool Romanticism: Audiovision circa 1800,” University of California at Berkeley, Apr. 2005. (Presented on my behalf by colleague)
24. “Irish Music and British Culture,” Politics of Print Culture, Carleton University, July, 2004.
25. “Irish Music, Print, and the Gendering of Diasporic Culture,” Print and Book Culture Conference, Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, Winnipeg, June, 2004.
26. “Nation and Notation: Music and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland,” Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Nov. 1997.
27. “Diverse Subjects: Scotland and Transnational Identity in the Long Romantic Era,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Toronto, Aug. 2008.
28. “A Man’s a man’: Gender and Nationalism in the Work of Robert Burns,” International Burns Conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Jan. 1996.
29. “Defoe, Lord Belhaven and the Act of Union Debate,” Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 1993.
30. “Defoe and the Act of Union,” Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh University, Nov. 1993.
31. “Origin of the Specious: James Macpherson and the Forging of the British Empire,” Special Panel on Scottish Studies, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Seattle, Washington, Mar. 1992.
Selected Conference Papers Presented, 2000- (from a total of 72)
1. "Unsettling Scottish Studies: Starting Places,” Unsettling Scottish Studies Conference, Simon Fraser University, Nov. 22-23, 2024.
2. "Editing Ringan Gilhaize for the Edinburgh University Press Collected Edition of the Works of John Galt,” British Association for Romantic Studies, University of Glasgow, July 23-25, 2024
3. “Remaking Romantic-Era Jacobitism Before Scott: Thomas Campbell’s ‘Lochiel’s Warning’ and Anne Grant’s ‘The Highlanders,’” British Association for Romantic Studies, University of Glasgow, July 23-25, 2024
4. “‘Restory-ing’ the Rightful King? Recycling and Revising Eighteenth-Century Cultural Memories of the Jacobites in Outlander,” International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures, University of Nottingham, July 3-5, 2024.
5. “Old Manuscripts and New Media: Digitizing ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Apr. 4-6, 2024.
6. “The ‘Networking Jacobites’ Research Network,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Oct. 18-22, 2023.
7. “Launching the Beta Version of ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript Digital Humanities Project,” “Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present,” University of Guelph, Aug. 27-28, 2022.
8. “‘Networking Jacobites: A Digital Humanities Project on Robert Forbes’s Lyon in Mourning Manuscript,” Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, July 27-29, 2022. University of Liverpool. Online.
9. “Digitizing Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript,” New Perspectives on “The Lyon in Mourning,” Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh University, June 30, 2022.
10. “Reframing Jacobitism Through Book History and Digital Humanities,” 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Prague, June 22-26. Online.
11. “Material Memories of Darien and the Company of Scotland,” panel on “Materializing Scottish Cultures,” MLA conference, Washington, DC, Jan. 6-9, 2022. Online.
12. “Jacobite Cultural Memory and Intermediality: Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Winnipeg, Oct. 13-19, 2021. Online.
13. “Teaching in the Indigenous Eighteenth Century: The Example of a Transatlantic Romanticism English Course,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Winnipeg, Oct. 13-19, 2021. Online.
14. “Mediating Jacobites in Cultural Memory: From 1745 to Waverley.” 12th International Scott Conference, 12 International Walter Scott Conference. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, July 5-7, 2021. Online.
15. “Relating to the Book: An Embodied Humanities Approach to Increasing Student Engagement with Book Culture,” “Relations of the Book,” Bibliographical and Book Studies in Canada Conference, June 1, 2021. Online.
16. “‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript of Robert Forbes: Jacobite Cultural Memory and an Archipelagic Book History,” panel on “The Manuscript Book,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Apr. 7-11, 2021.
17. “Cultural Memory and the Ethics of the Archive: Writing the 1745-46 Jacobite Uprising in the Era After Culloden,” Canadian Society for 18th-Century Studies, Montreal, Oct. 2019.
18. “Networks of Memory and the 1715-16 Jacobite Uprising,” Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS), University of Glasgow, July 2018.
19. “Cultural Memory and the Discontented: Recollecting the 1745 Rebellion in Romantic- Era Britain,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), University of California, Berkeley, Aug. 2016.
20. “Cultural Memory and Cultural Amnesia: Ireland and the Glorious Revolution,” Roundtable for Race and Empire Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Society Conference, (ASECS), Pittsburgh, Mar. 2016.
21. “Inscripting Irish Events After the Glorious Revolution: Mapping the War of the Two Kings in 1689,” ASECS Conference, Pittsburgh, Mar. 2016.
22. “Mediating 1688: Orality, Print and Manuscript,” After Print: Manuscript Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Symposium, UC Santa Barbara Centre for Early Modern Studies, Apr. 2015.
23. “Inscribing the Glorious Revolution in 1688-89,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, SFU, Vancouver, Oct. 2015.
24. “Re-membering the 1715 Rebellion in 1745,” ASECS Conference, Los Angeles, Mar. 2015.
25. “Remembering to Forget: Ireland in the Glorious Revolution,” MLA conference, Vancouver, Jan. 2015.
26. “Of Pretenders and Palimpsests: Newspapers and the 1745 Rebellion,” World Congress of Scottish Literatures,
U. of Glasgow, Jul. 2014.
27. “On the Edge of History: Media Change, the 1745 Rebellion and the Creation of Cultural Memory,” “On the Edge: Transitions, Transgressions and Transformations in Irish and Scottish Studies,” SFU, Vancouver, June 2013.
28. “Archipelagizing the Glorious Revolution,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg, Virginia, Mar. 2013.
29. “Scotland, British Poetry and the Transnational Turn,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, San Antonio, Mar. 2012.
30. “‘The Burns of Canada’: Alexander McLachlan and Transatlantic Romanticism,” British Association for Romantic Studies, Glasgow, July 2011.
31. “Finding a “Canadian Virgil”: Walter Scott, Daniel Wilson and Transatlantic Transport,” Walter Scott Conference, Laramie, June 2011.
32. “Mediating Revolution,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, SFU, Mar. 2011.
33. “Robert Burns and the 1859 Centenary,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Aug. 2010.
34. “Between Nation and Empire: Scotland’s Darien Venture,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, Mar. 2010.
35. Participant in roundtable on “Scotland, Ireland and Wales,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, Mar. 2010.
36. “Connecting Four Nations Studies with Global Studies,” roundtable presentation, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, Mar. 2010.
37. “Robert Burns and Cultural Memory,” Robert Burns in a Transatlantic Context, SFU Harbour Centre, Apr. 2009.
38. “Remediating Irish Song: Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry,” Centre for the Study of Print and Media Culture workshop, SFU, Apr. 2008.
39. “Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry and Irish Popular Song,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, Mar. 2008.
40. “Mediating Popular Culture: Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry,” Canadian Society for EighteenthCentury Studies, Winnipeg, Oct. 2007.
41. “The Printer As Patriot: James Watson’s Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems,” Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture, Saskatoon, May, 2007.
42. “From Picts to Pixels: Scotland, Cyberspace and Global Technologies of Nostalgia,” Scottish Romanticism and World Literature, University of California, Berkeley, Sep. 2006.
43. “Articulating Scotland c. 1707: James Watson’s Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems and George Mackenzie’s Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Montreal, Apr. 2006.
44. “Crossing Borders: Orality and Print in 18th-Century Scottish Song Collections,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, UBC, Oct. 2003.
45. “Contesting the Spectacle of Colonialism: Irish Music and the Politics of Aurality in the Eighteenth-Century,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, U of Saskatchewan, Oct. 2001.
46. “Echoes of Resistance: Sidney Owenson’s Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies and The Wild Irish Girl,” Women in the Republic of Letters Conference, U of Saskatchewan, Oct. 2000.
47. “Sidney Owenson, Gender and the Construction of the Nation,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, Mar. 2000.
48. “Eighteenth-Century Scottish Music,” Culture, Community and Nation: Scotland at Home and Abroad Conference, SFU Harbour Centre, Mar. 2000.
Selected Media Appearances
1. Mar. 17, 2023: Interview with Manesa Dhanabalan of CHCH in Hamilton, Ontario about the origins of St. Patrick’s Day.
2. Jan. 25th, 2022: Interview for News Talk 980 CKNW about Robert Burns Day.
3. Jan. 25, 2021: Interview for CBC Radio about Robert Burns Day 2021/
4. Apr. 10, 2021: Interview for podcast Tea, Toast and Trivia about “The Lyon in Mourning” project.
5. Jan. 25, 2020: Interview for CBC Vancouver about Robert Burns Day in Vancouver.
6. Jul. 2, 2020: Interview for CTV Vancouver about the proposal to change the name of SFU’s sports teams (“The Clan”).
7. Apr. 2014: Interview with Burnaby Now about SFU’s Centre for Scottish Studies’ Tartan Day celebration with Scottish minister Humza Yousef.
8. Jul. 2014: Interview with the Glasgow Herald about the launch of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures.
9. Sep. 2014: Commentator on the referendum on Scottish independence: appeared on CTV Canada AM, CTV Vancouver (three times), Global TV, on CBC Radio’s Early Edition and Mark Forsyth’s show, CKNW’s Simi Sara show, and on CFAX 1070’s Pamela McCall show; quoted in Vancouver’s Metro newspaper and in a widely distributed article for the Canadian Press. Interviewed by the Globe and Mail.
10. Jan. 2012, 2013 and 2014: Commentator on Robert Burns and the CSS’s “Robert Burns Marathon Reading” on CBC TV, CTV, CityTV, News 1130 and 650AM Radio.
11. 2009: Interviewed by the Globe and Mail regarding Robert Burns’s 250th birthday.
12. 2008: Interviewed by BBC Radio 4 for special program on Robert Burns.
13. 2007: Interviewed by The Toronto Star for a feature article on the anniversary of the 1707 Act of Union.
Selected Public Talks
1. “(Re)collecting Jacobites in Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript.” University of Aberdeen, Feb. 15. 2025.
2. “The Aftermath and the Legacy of Culloden,” National Trust for Scotland, Culloden Battlefield Anniversary, Apr. 15, 2023. Online.
3. “Encoding and Analyzing ‘The Lyon in Mourning’: Shedding New Light on the Jacobites,” Association for Scottish Literature. Apr. 11, 2023. Online.
4. “Networks of Memory and the Jacobite Movement,” 2023 Humanities Festival, Casper College, Casper, Wyoming, Feb. 21-23, 2023.
5. “Female Rebels: Women’s Voices in the 1745 Jacobite Rising,” ScotFestBC Highland Games, Coquitlam, June 2022.
6. “Before Outlander: Robert Forbes and the 18th-Century Jacobite Community,” ScotFestBC Highland Games, June 2021.
7. “Networking the 1745 Jacobite Rising and Robert Forbes’ ‘Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript,” Brock House Speaker Series, May 4, 2021. Online.
8. “The Cultural Memory of Robert Burns” and “Mediating the 1745 Rebellion” at the Scottish Gathering Weekend, Canmore, Oct. 2015.
9. “Back to the Future: Remembering the 1707 Act of Union,” Public lecture and mock vote, SFU Centre for Scottish Studies, Sept. 15, 2014.
10. “Third Degree Burns: Introducing Scotland’s National Poet,” public lecture at Douglas College, New Westminster, May 14, 2014.
11. “If Ever There Was a Man Who Felt: Jane Austen’s Robert Burns,” lecture to the Jane Austen Society, Vancouver, Feb. 2012.
Professional Development Presentations and Workshops on Teaching
1. Presenter at SFU’s Centre for Educational Excellence’s “Engaging Students in Teaching and Learning” workshop, Aug. 29, 2023.
2. Presenter at “How do you do DH? Digital humanities in teaching and research” workshop, Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, May 24, 2023.
3. Participant in “Disrupting Colonialism in the Classroom,” course organized by the Department of English, SFU. Sept. 2021 – April 2022.
4. Presenter at “Remote Teaching Forum 2021,” organized by the Centre for Educational Excellence, Feb. 2, 2021.
5. Presenter on “Media Labs and Embodied Humanities: Tools for Well-Being in the Classroom,” organized by the Healthy Campus Community, 2021 (Online)
6. Participant in “Storymaps and Hypothesis in the Classroom”, organized as part of the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab’s Pedagogy Symposium, Feb. 21, 2018.
7. Participant in “Rethinking Teaching,” organized by the Teaching and Learning Centre at SFU, May, 2017.
8. Participant in “Bring Yourself to Work,” a seminar offered by the Teaching and Learning Centre at SFU, Dec. 2017.
9. Participant in “Writing Workshop,” organized by Academic Women at SFU Harbour Centre, May, 2017.
10. Participant in “Reacting to the Past,” a workshop by Diana Solomon and David Eick on teaching through reenactment at SFU, Oct. 2017.
Other Professional Development Presentations and Workshops
1. Participant in Digital Humanities Workshop, Women in Book History, Part 2 at the Folger Library, Washington, DC, Mar. 9-10, 2019.
2. Participated in Digital Humanities Workshop with Mahendra Mahey of the British Library organized by the DHIL, Feb. 25, 2019.
3. Participant in Digital Humanities Innovation Lab’s “Hacking the Scholarly Workflow” day-long workshop on Mar. 21, 2018. (Attended sessions on “Tropy” image management system for research images, Archival data collection and Alternate methods of dissemination.)
4. Participant in Digital Humanities Innovation Lab’s workshop on ArcGIS. 2020.
5. Participant in 2-day “Writing Workshop” organized by Academic Women at SFU Harbour Centre. May 2017.
6. Participant in workshop in Descriptive Bibliography with Dr. David Gants, Apr. 27-29, 2016.
7. Participant in the Digital Humanities workshop in TEI-XML markup with Dr. James Cummings, Jan. 22, 2016.
PART 3: RECOGNITION, LEADERSHIP & SERVICE
Awards and Honours
2025 Lifetime Achievement Award, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
This recognition is bestowed upon scholars who have made outstanding contributions to eighteenth-century Scottish Studies over the course of their careers.
2024 Royal Society of Canada Fellowship, Royal Society of Canada
Fellows are elected by their peers for membership in Canada’s top academic collegium in recognition of sustained research excellence.
2024 Visiting Research Fellowship, The University of Glasgow
The Fellowships are competitive peer-assessed awards. They are designed to provide financial support towards the costs of travel and accommodation to enable researchers to work on the unique collections held in the University Library.
2021 Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship, British Library
These awards are offered to help support individuals wishing to visit London to use the British Library’s collections relating to the Americas (North America, the Caribbean, Central America, South America). The award supported research into representations of race in the transatlantic routes of early circus.
2020 Digital Research Visiting Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh
These Visiting Fellowships of between two and four months are intended to encourage outstanding, digitally-focused, interdisciplinary research, international scholarly collaboration, and networking activities of Visiting Research Fellows with a specific focus on the digital. The fellowship was awarded for a project with the National Library of Scotland to digitize and analyze an eighteenth-century Jacobite manuscript and to organize a multi-disciplinary conference at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
2020 Amundsen Fellowship, SFU
Amundsen Fellows are continuing faculty members at Simon Fraser University who have demonstrated their interest and commitment to the investigation of teaching and learning through the successful conduct of at least one project and through other activities within their departments and faculties. The fellowship was awarded to further advance research in Embodied Humanities pedagogical techniques and to form and international network of university faculty who employ EH in their teaching and research.
2018 Lesley B. Cormack Award for Excellence in Teaching, SFU
The Cormack Awards were created in 2010 to recognize excellent and innovative teaching within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
2016 Visiting Professor, School for Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
Nominated for this honour by colleagues at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow
2010 Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence, SFU
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Dean’s Medal recognizes excellence in academic research, teaching, and service.
Editorial Boards
• Digital Defoe
• Editing Burns for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press)
• Eighteenth-Century Ireland
• International Review of Scottish Studies
• Journal of Interdisciplinary History
• Scottish Literary Review
• Studies in Scottish Literature
Advisory Boards
• Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (Member-at-large)
• North American Conference for British Studies
• World Congress of Scottish Literatures
Trustee
1. Jacobite Studies Trust: A registered charity formed in 2004 to respond to a growing interest in Jacobitism. The JST invites distinguished scholars to serve as Trustees and as members of the International Committee who help to direct its academic focus.
Selected Conference Organization
1. “Unsettling Scottish Studies: Canons, Chronologies, Colonialisms,” Nov. 22-23 at Simon Fraser University.
2. “Women, Literary Networks and Media Cultures in the Eighteenth Century,” Simon Fraser University, May 11-12, 2023. (Co-organized with Michelle Levy and Diana Solomon)
3. “Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present,” University of Guelph, Aug. 27-28, 2022. (PI; co-organized with Kevin James)
4. “New Perspectives on ‘The Lyon in Mourning,’” Institute for Advanced Studies of the Humanities, Edinburgh University, June 29-30, 2022. (PI; organized as part of Digital Research Fellowship at IASH)
5. “World Congress of Scottish Literatures,” Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver, June 21- 24, 2017 (PI)
6. “On the Edge: Transitions, Transgressions and Transformations in Irish and Scottish Studies,” SFU Harbour Centre, June 2013. (Co-applicant; co-organized with Willeen Keough)
7. “Robert Burns in a Transatlantic Context,” SFU Harbour Centre, Apr. 2009. (PI)
8. “A Celebration of Scottish Music and Song,” SFU Harbour Centre (Mar. 2001). (PI)
9. “Culture, Community and Nation: Scotland at Home and Abroad” Conference, SFU Harbour Centre,March, 2000. (Co-applicant; co-organized with Steve Duguid of Humanities Department, SFU)
Selected Panel Organization
1. “Matters and Materials of Political Life: Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oct. 2023.
2. Organizer, Panel on “National Roots and Diasporic Routes of Scottish Literature,” World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Glasgow, July, 2014.
3. Organizer, Roundtable on “Britain 2.0: The New New British Studies?” American Society for EighteenthCentury Studies, Vancouver, Mar. 2011.
4. Organizer, “Writing (and) the Union: Textual Responses to 1800,” Irish Caucus Panel, ASECS Conference, Philadelphia, Apr. 2000.
5. Organizer, “Music and National Identity in Ireland,” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dublin, July 1999.
6. Organizer, “Print Culture on the Margins of Britain,” SHARP Conference, Vancouver, July 1998.
Leadership & Administration
2020- Director, Research Centre for Scottish Studies (SFU)
2008-2015 Founded in 1998, our Research Centre is a joint venture between faculty members and individuals in the community, providing a collaborative space for faculty, students, and members of the general public who are interested in exploring Scottish history and culture and the connections between Scotland and Canada in the contemporary global landscape. Professor Davis manages the budget, adjudicates student awards, and holds annual community meetings. She also liaises with Scottish dignitaries and answers questions from the general public related to Scottish culture, politics, and literature.
Events Organized for the SFU Research Centre for Scottish Studies
1. November 2024: Organized public talk by Dr. Amy Parent on “Rematriating the Ni’isjoohl Pole” and performance by the Vancouver Nisga’a Ts’amiks Dancers, SFU Harbour Centre
2. November 2024: Organized “Storywork: Music and Dance from the HIghland and Métis Traditions,” SFU Harbour Centre.
3. November 2024: Organized talk by Squamish writer Stephanie Wood on collaborative history of the Squamish People, We Come From This Land. SFU Harbour Centre.
4. November 2023: Organized St. Andrews and Caledonian public lecture by Sharon Alker and Holly Nelson, SFU Harbour Centre
5. January 2023: Delivered special public lecture on “Robert Burns in Cultural Memory” as part of English 213 course; organized students to present and invited members of the public to attend.
6. December 2022: Organized the St. Andrews and Caledonian public lecture by Dr. Viccy Coltman and book launch, SFU Harbour Centre (in person with remote participation).
7. January 2022: Co-organized the 2nd annual Robert Burns Day Online Celebration; delivered talk on “Sights of Memory and Robert Burns” and organized students to read Burns’s works (70 participants).
8. November 2021: Organized the St. Andrews and Caledonian Lecture by Dr. Ralph McLean (National Library of Scotland) Online (60 in attendance).
9. April 2021: Organized “Decolonizing Scottish Studies” online panel to examine colonial histories and present circumstances involving Scotland and the Scottish diaspora, and to consider the roles that Centres of Scottish Studies can play in the work of decolonization. With Emma Bond, Alyssa Bridgman, Michael Morris and Amy Parent/Noxs Ts’aawit (Mother of the Raven Warrior Chief).
10. January 2021: Co-organized online Robert Burns Day celebration; also delivered talk on “Robert Burns and the 1859 Bicentenary” and organized students to present (350 participants globally).
11. November 2020: Organized St. Andrews and Caledonian Lecture (featuring talk by me on “What News? 18thCentury News Media and the 1715 Jacobite Rising” and by Honours student Emma Henderson on “Mary Queen of Scots in the Eighteenth Century.”
12. May 2020: Created and curated online exhibit “Loch-down: Connecting to Scotland Through Objects of Memory,” a community engagement project examining how people stayed connected to Scotland when they were unable to travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.
13. January 2020: Robert Burns Day Community Celebration involving students of my English 420W course and community members.
14. June 2017: Community Engagement Grant ($5000) for “Changing the Narrative of Canada at 150: Revisioning Connections Between First Nations and the Hudson’s Bay Company” (in conjunction with the 2nd World Congress of Scottish Literatures). Organized talks by Dr. Pam Perkins of the University of Manitoba on “Trading Tales: Public and Private Narratives of Scots and Hudson’s Bay Company” and Bronwen Quarry (Hudson’s Bay Company Archives).
15. June 2017: (in collaboration with the Indigenous Literary Studies Association’s 3rd Annual Gathering and the 2nd World Congress of Scottish Literatures): Organized reading by three Indigenous spoken word artists, Jordan Abel, Rain Prud’homme-Cranford and Samantha Nock, as well as a performance by the Indigenous women’s musical ensemble, M’Girl.
16. June 2017: (in conjunction with the 2nd World Congress of Scottish Literatures): Public Screening of the film “1745: An Untold Story of Slavery” highlights “a forgotten part of Scotland’s history: while Scotland was fighting for its national freedom in that fateful year, its economy was in large part founded on the booming colonial slave trade. While the majority of slavery happened elsewhere–off-stage, across the Atlantic–there were African slaves here, kept as trophies and pets in the houses of their rich merchant masters. 1745 was inspired by advertisements that writer, Morayo Akandé, discovered for runaway slaves, placed in Scottish newspapers of the time.”
17. June 2017: (in conjunction with the 2nd World Congress of Scottish Literatures): Organized book launch for Robert Alan Jamieson, reading from his novel macCLOUD FALLS.
18. June 2017: (in conjunction with the 2nd World Congress of Scottish Literatures): Organized tour of Fort Langley for participants in World Congress of Scottish Literatures and community members with special tour of Indigenous garden.
19. June 2015: As Co-Chieftain for the ScotFestBC Highland Games in Coquitlam BC, delivered public talk to over 1000 people at Coquitlam Town Centre Park
20. June 2015: organized Cultural Tent for ScotFestBC Highland Games in Coquitlam BC
21. April 2015: Organized “Tartan Day Celebration” with speaker Dr. Scott Hames on “Scotland After the Referendum” and performance by the Gaelic Choir of Vancouver.
22. January 2015: Public talk and ceremony at Burns Statue with community member Todd Wong for Burns Day
23. January 2015: Organized Burns Day Celebration, including piping, haggis ceremony with Todd Wong’s Gung Haggis Fat Choy group, readings of Burns’s work and public singing at SFU Harbour Centre.
24. November 2014: Organized St. Andrews Day Celebration with the Jocelyn Pettit band.
25. October 2014: Organized public lecture by Kevin James (U of Guelph) on “The Victorian Tourist in Scotland.”
26. September 2014: Organized public lecture on “Scotland’s Independence Referendum” as part of my English 420W course. Included mock vote with audience members. 60 people in attendance.
27. January 2014: Organized Burns Day marathon reading with students, faculty and members of the general public at Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University. Over 100 people in attendance.
28. April 2013: Organized Tartan Day Celebration with Humza Yousaf (Member of the Scottish Parliament for External Affairs at the time), the North Short Celtic Ensemble youth orchestra, the Gaelic Choir and Vancouver Scottish Dancers. Over 100 people in attendance.
29. June 2013: (in conjunction with “On the Edge: Transitions, Transgressions, and Transformations in Irish and Scottish Studies” conference): Organized community research panel on Scottish local history with local independent scholars and researchers.
30. June 2013: (in conjunction with “On the Edge: Transitions, Transgressions, and Transformations in Irish and Scottish Studies” conference): Organized community workshop for the public on Oral History with Dr. Marjory Harper (U of Aberdeen).
31. January 2013: Organized second annual Burns Day marathon reading with students, faculty and members of the general public at Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University. Over 100 people in attendance.
32. November 2012: Organized public dramatic performance and talk on “Mary Queen of Scots, her Last Letter” by Anna Hepburn.
33. April 2012: Organized launch of online Oral History Project together with Tartan Day events, involving the Gaelic Choir, the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society and a representative from National Museums of Scotland. Over 100 people in attendance.
34. January 2012: Organized Robert Burns marathon reading involving university and community partners. Over 200 people attended; 70 people directly involved in the reading.
35. November 2011: Organized St Andrews and Caledonian Society 250th anniversary celebration and public lecture by Dr. Gerard Carruthers on “Images of the Scot in the Media.”
36. April 2011: Organized public talk on “Post-Devolution Scotland” by Neal Ascherson.
37. February 2011: Organized public talk by Alastair McIntyre on his electronic resource “Electric Scotland.”
38. November 2010: Organized St. Andrews and Caledonian lecture by Dr. Rich Sher (NJIT) on “An EighteenthCentury Blockbuster: Domestic Medicine by Physician William Buchan.”
39. October 2010: Organized public talk by Dr. Holly Nelson (Trinity Western University) on “The Other Scottish Bard: James Hogg.”
40. April 2009: (in conjunction with “Robert Burns in Transatlantic Culture” conference): Organized a musical celebration of Burns in North America for the general public featuring singers Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat, Kirsteen McCue and David Hamilton at the Scottish Cultural Centre.
41. December 2009: Organized St. Andrews and Caledonian Society talk by Dr. Gary West (Edinburgh University) on “Scottish Lowland Piping.”
42. December 2009: Organized public talk by Michael Russell, Member of the Scottish Parliament, at Harbour Centre.
43. November 2008: Organized St. Andrews and Caledonian Lecture by Graeme Morton of the University of Guelph on “The Scottish Chiefs.”
44. September 2006: Organized St. Andrews and Caledonian Society Lecture by Professor Murray Pittock (U of Glasgow).
Supervision & Mentorship
1. Research personnel: 43 previously trained (18 BA; 23 MA; 2 PhD)
2. PhD students: 1 currently supervising, 3 previously supervised; also served on the committees of 6 others. o Three PhD students have held prestigious SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships.
o One PhD student went on to a position as SFU’s Faculty Association’s Member Service Officer. o Another PhD student was hired in the Department of English at Douglas College.
3. Master’s students: 2 currently supervising, 10 previously supervised; also served on the committees of 14 others.
o Mentored 4 MA research assistants on the “Lyon in Mourning” project to present their research at the “Networking Jacobites” conference in Guelph (Aug. 2022).
o One MA student went on to study Library and Information Studies at UBC and is currently employed as Library Communications Officer at SFU’s Library.
o Another MA student went on to do a PhD at Maynooth University in Ireland, followed by two post-doctoral fellowships (University of Galway and University of Limerick).
4. Honours undergraduate students: 7 previously supervised.
o Mentored 5 undergraduates from English 415 (Spring, 2022) to produce video presentations which were shared at the “Networking Jacobites” conference in Guelph (Aug. 2022).
o Mentored 4 undergraduate students from English 320 (Spring, 2017) to present their research in person at the World Congress of Scottish Literature in 2017.
5. Teaching Assistants: supervised 40
Coordinator
1. “Networking Jacobites, 1688-the Present“ International Research Collective (creator and ongoing coordinator): creator in 2021 of an international multi-disciplinary research group focused on extending scholarly collaboration about the Jacobites. The network includes faculty and students and provides mentorship for ECRs. Essays by members of this group will be published in a forthcoming volume, “Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Media, Memory, Networks” to be published by Edinburgh University Press. In addition, I co-edited a volume of the International Review of Scottish Studies featuring the work of members.
2. “Embodied Humanities Pedagogies“ International Research and Pedagogy Network: (creator and ongoing coordinator): creator in 2021 of a research network of academics who employ Embodied Humanities pedagogical methodologies). This network shares techniques, successes and challenges to support each other as well as to extend the knowledge of the methodology.
RESEARCH FUNDING
Research Project Grants
1. 2024: SSHRC Connection Grant for “Unsettling Scottish Studies” (Co-Investigator with PI June Scudeler) ($23,400)
2. 2024: Kickstarter Funding for “Unsettling Scottish Studies,” SFU’s Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ($9486)
3. 2024: SFU Office of Community Engagement funding for “Unsettling Scottish Studies,” Office of Community Engagement ($3,000)
4. 2024: SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Community-based Partner Grant for “Unsettling Scottish Studies” ($5,000)
5. 2023: SSHRC Small Grant for “Scottish Diasporic Networks in BC: The Letters of the J. Dunlop Reid Family” ($6,990)
6. 2022: FIC Grant for “Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present.” ($5,000)
7. 2022: SSHRC Connection Grant for “Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present.” ($24,800)
8. 2021: SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant with the National Library of Scotland for “Engaging Public and Academic Audiences to Recover Lost Voices of Scottish History: ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript and the Jacobite Networks of the 1745 Rising.” Principal Investigator ($18,000)
9. 2021: SSHRC Insight Grant for “Mediating Jacobites, 1688-1845” ($58,000)
10. 2021: SFU Library Scholarly Digitization Grant ($5000) for digitizing materials connected with the Scottish Voices from the West Oral History project
11. 2021: SFU Publication Grant for permissions and images for Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland ($1855)
12. 2019: Small SSHRC Grant for Digital Humanities Project on “Mediating Jacobites” ($7000)
13. 2018: FIC Grant for “Early Circus: Philip Astley’s Amphitheatre” online resource ($4,000)
14. 2017: Small SSHRC Grant for “Reconstructing Early Circus” Digital Humanities project ($7000)
15. 2017: FIC Grant for “Transnational Circuits of Romantic-Era Circuses” ($6000)
16. 2017: SSHRC Connection Grant for “World Congress of Scottish Literatures” ($23,500)
17. 2017: Community Engagement Initiative Grant for “World Congress of Scottish Literatures” ($5,000)
18. 2016: FIC Grant for “World Congress of Scottish Literatures” ($6,000)
19. 2012: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connection Grant for “On the Edge: Transitions, Transgressions and Transformations in Irish and Scottish Studies” Conference ($23,000). (CoInvestigator)
20. 2010: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant for “Nationalism and globalization in 18th-C. British print culture” project ($47,981)
21. 2008: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Workshop Grant ($24,500) for “Robert Burns in a Transatlantic Context” workshop, April 7-9, 2009
22. 2004: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant ($50,283.00 including Research Time Stipend) for “Print Culture and Transnational identity in Britain and Ireland, 17001850” project.
23. 2003: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Small Research Grant ($3,300) for “Rewriting Nostalgia” and Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature projects
24. 2000: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Small Research Grant ($4,900) for
“Scotland and the Boundaries of Romanticism” and “Scotland, Music and Romanticism” projects
25. 1999: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Irish-American Travel Grant; Special Award (US$600)
26. 1998: Publications Grant ($1,073), Simon Fraser University to prepare index for Acts of Union book
27. 1998-2001: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant ($29,800) for “Nation and Notation” project
28. Fall, 1997: Research Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Great Britain
29. 1997: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Small Grant ($4,999) for “Nation and Notation” project
30. 1997: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada North American Travel Grant ($500) for ASECS conference in Nashville
31. 1993-96: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant ($45,000) for “Acts of Union” project
32. 1991: President’s Research Council Grant ($3,298) for preliminary research for “Acts of Union” project
Teaching and Learning Project Grants
1. 2020: “Pivoting Embodied Humanities Pedagogy to a Remote Environment,” Institute for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines (PI) ($5000)
2. 2020: “‘Two-eyed Seeing’: Reading Eighteenth-Century British Literature from an Indigenous Perspective.” Micro Research and Teaching Development Grant, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (PI) ($1500)
3. 2020: ‘“Expanding the “Eighteenth-Century Media Online (EMO)’” Omeka Website,” Teaching and Learning Centre grant to research and create Open Educational Resource of eighteenth-century media, Teaching and Learning Centre (PI) ($6000)
4. 2019: “Experimental Humanities”: Engaging Students in Eighteenth-Century Literature Through a Manuscript Media Lab,” Institute for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines (PI) ($6000)
5. 2017: “Database of Eighteenth-Century Media Online” (PI) Grant to create a digital tool for teaching and research on ephemeral media (including songs, ballads, manuscripts, etc) (PI) Teaching and Learning Centre
(PI) ($6000)
