Did you know that Mary Ann Baxter, the daughter of the family who Mary Shelley stayed with in Dundee, was on of the principal benefactors for the University College, later the University of Dundee? Her portrait is in the Global Room! #GothicWomen

Don't miss this free event at University of Dundee featuring Allan Kennedy & Gary Welsh. Celebrating the publication of an innovative new Scottish History comic, the talk explores a true-life Scottish criminal case from 1694: bit.ly/JeanLands #history #comic

Spotted in the Poetry section of Blackwell’s in Oxford:

Happy Burns Month 📚🤓 uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-best…

Delighted to have received my editor's copies of 'Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland'. Inordinately proud of this book, which not only breaks new ground, but also showcases lots of brilliant young scholars. Thanks to them all, especially Susanne 📚☕️🧶☮️, my co-editor.

I’ve been promoted to PROFESSOR (and our first Chair in English and Scottish Literature this century - possibly ever)! #firstgen

Delighted to say I'm now University of Dundee's representative on The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) steering committee. Looking forward to getting stuck in, as ever, and to meeting colleagues across Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 saha.scot "The contribution that

My FREE History Scotland webinar on 'Women and Serious Crime in Late-17th Century Scotland' is this Thursday. Learn about women as both perpetrators and victims of serious criminality c.1660-c.1700. Sneak preview of my upcoming book with Edinburgh University Press! r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/73DN-FQO/cri…

“Treasures: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Scottish Gothic Tradition” | Thursday 5 September 2024 at 17:30 | National Library of Scotland (FREE) eventbrite.co.uk/e/treasures-ma…

Scottish University of the Year 2025

We're very excited to be part of the #BeingHuman2024 programme! Our events University of Dundee include… beinghumanfestival.org/events/queer-u…

We're very excited to be part of the #BeingHuman2024 programme! Our events University of Dundee include… beinghumanfestival.org/events/poetry-…

We're very excited to be part of the #BeingHuman2024 programme! Our events University of Dundee include… beinghumanfestival.org/events/ninetee…

Check out my guest blog post for National Library of Scotland, featuring original artworks by Steven Learmonth. This follows last month's roundtable discussion of Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition with Alastair Braidwood and Emily Alder. nls.uk/papercut/mary-…

“Awful and stern the rugged entrance low’rs That leads to Caledonia’s last retreats, Where oft in days of yore, contending pow’rs On the dark threshold shone in dreadful feats” Anne Grant, ‘Sonnet’, in The Highlanders, and Other Poems (1808) To celebrate #StAndrewsDay why not

Walter Scott and Short Fiction (Edinburgh University Press) is available for as little as £10.50 - what a way to celebrate #StAndrewsDay! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-walter-sc…

Delighted to say I've been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!

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So pleased for Pàdraig MacAoidh - he very kindly provided translations for some of the Gaelic poems in this bumper collection, the first in the @OWC_Oxford series to feature Gaelic, as far as I’m aware. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Featuring Prof Daniel Cook: