丁香园AV

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Leith Davis

Professor, Department of English

丁香园AV

PERSONAL: married with three children

EDUCATION: 
PhD: University of California, Berkeley (1990) 
MA: University of California, Berkeley (1988) 
BA Honours: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (1983) 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD:
2006-present:    Professor, Department of English, 丁香园AV
1999-2006:       Associate Professor, Department of English, 丁香园AV
1990-99:           Assistant Professor, Department of English, 丁香园AV 
1984-1990:       Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley

INSTITUTE DIRECTORSHIP:
2020-present: Director, 丁香园AV, Centre for Scottish Studies
2008-2015: Director, 丁香园AV, Centre for Scottish Studies

BOOKS:

. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

 Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 323 pp. Contains chapters on Joseph Cooper Walker; Charlotte Brooke (Ch. 3 "The United Powers of Female Poesy and Music"), Edward Bunting, Sydney Owenson, Thomas Moore and James Hardiman, Thomas Davis and George Petrie. The final chapter examines Irish music in a transatlantic context.

. Stanford University Press, 1998. 212 pp.

EDITED BOOKS:

 (co-edited with Janet Sorenson). Glasgow: Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2021. 

 Ed. Sharon Alker, Leith Davis and Holly Nelson (Ashgate, 2012), 320 pp. 

. Ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). 260 pp.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS:

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FORTHCOMING WORK

  • Jacobitism in Cultural Memory, 1688 to 1840 (under contract, Eighteenth-Century Elements Series, Cambridge University Press)
  • Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks, co-edited with Kevin James (under contract, Edinburgh University Press)
  • "Sights of Memory: Robert Burns and Romantic-era Book Illustration" in The Oxford Handbook on Robert Burns, ed. Gerard Carruthers (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)
  • "'A Piece of History the Most Remarkable & Interesting That Ever Happened in Any Age or Country鈥�: 'The Lyon in Mourning' Manuscript of Robert Forbes" (forthcoming, Eighteenth-Century Life)
  • "Rehabilitating Jacobites in Thomas Campbell's 'Lochiel's Warning' and Anne Grant's The Highlanders" in Seeking Justice: Literature, Law and Equity during the Age of Revolutions, ed. Regina Hewitt and Michael Demson (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press)
  • "The Making of 'Great Britain'" in The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English, ed. Nicole Alijoe, Sarah Eron, and Suvir Kaul (forthcoming, Routledge)
  • "Charlotte Brooke" in The Routledge Research Companion to Romantic Women Writers, ed. Ann R. Hawkins, Catherine S. Blackwell and E. Leigh Bonds (forthcoming, Routledge)
  • "The Literature of Jacobitism" in The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature, ed. Ian Duncan (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)

SELECTED ARTICLES: (R) denotes refereed journal

  •  鈥淲omen, Oral Culture and Book History in the Romantic-Era British Archipelago: Charlotte Brooke, Anne Grant and Felicia Hemans鈥� in The Huntington Library Quarterly 84 (1) (2021): 177-188.
  • 鈥淭ransnational Articulations in James Macpherson鈥檚 Poems of Ossian and The History and Management of the East-India Company, "The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 60.4 (2019): 441-460. (R)
  • "Between Archive and Repertoire: Astley鈥檚 Amphitheatre, Early Circus, and Romantic-Era Song Culture," Studies in Romanticism 58.4 (2019), 451-480. (R)
  • "The 鈥淯nfetter鈥檇鈥� Muse: Robert Burns and Pre-Confederation Scottish-Canadian Poets" in Studies in Canadian Literature 44.1 (2019), 100-121. (R)
  • 鈥淢emory Studies and the Eighteenth Century鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Literature Compass (January, 2019), 1-16. (R)
  • 鈥淐ultural Memory and Cultural Amnesia: Ireland and the 鈥楪lorious Revolution鈥� in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 47 (2017), 185-205 (R)
  • "Back to the Future: Remembering the 1707 Act of Union in the 2014 Referendum Campaign," Studies in Scottish Literature41.1 (2015), 237鈥�249. (R)
  • 鈥淪cottish Literature and 鈥楨ngl. Lit.鈥欌�� in Studies in Scottish Literature 38.1 (2012), 20-27.  
  • 鈥淚magining the Miscellaneous Nation: James Watson鈥檚 Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Eighteenth-Century Life 35.3 (Fall, 2011), 60-80.  (R)
  • 鈥淣egotiating Cultural Memory: James Currie鈥檚 Works of Robert Burns,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;International Journal of Scottish LiteratureSpring/Summer 2010 (R)
  • 鈥淎 New Perspective on the Scottish Diaspora,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Bottle Imp 5 (May 2009) 
  • "Sequels of Resistance: Edward Bunting's Ancient Irish Melodies and the Irish Nation," Nineteenth-Century Contexts Vol. 23 (2001): 29-57. (R)
  •  The Wordsworth Circle (Spring, 2000), 93-97. (R)
  • "Gender and the Nation in the Work of Robert Burns and Janet Little," Studies in English Literature (Autumn, 1998), 621-645.(R) 
  • "The Politics of Hypochondriasis: James Currie's Works of Robert Burns," Studies in Romanticism, 32 (Spring, 1997), 43-60. (R) 
  • "`Bounded to a District Space': Burns, Wordsworth and the Margins of English Literature," English Studies in Canada 20:1 (March, 1994), 23-40. (R) 
  • "Birth of the Nation: Gender and Writing in the Work of Henry and Charlotte Brooke," Eighteenth-Century Life 18:1 (February, 1994), 27-47. (R) 
  • "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. (R) 
  • "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. (R)

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS:

  • "Introduction" in  (co-edited with Janet Sorenson). Glasgow: Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2021. 1-23.
  • "Presenting the National Past: the Uses of History in Scottish Literature, 1650-1707," in  (co-edited with Janet Sorenson). Glasgow: Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2021. 1-23.
  • (with Jasreen Kaur Janjua) "Fierce Females and Male Pretenders: Gender, Cultural Memory and Anti-Jacobite Print Culture in the 1745 Rising," in  (co-edited with Janet Sorenson). Glasgow: Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2021. 117-131.
  • 鈥淢ediating 鈥楾his Sudden & Surprising Revolution鈥�: Official Manuscript Newsletters and the Glorious Revolution,鈥� in After Print: Manuscript Studies and Eighteenth-Century Literature. Ed. Rachael Scarborough King (in press with University of Virginia P, 2020), 148-173. (R)
  • 鈥淧oems on Nation and Empire,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Oxford British Poetry, 1660-1800, ed. Jack Lynch. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 330-319. (R)
  • "The Aftermath of Union," in The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature, ed. Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney. Cambridge: Cambridge     University Press, 2012. 56-70. (R)
  • Charlotte Brooke鈥檚 Reliques of Irish Poetry: Eighteenth-century 鈥業rish Song鈥� and the Politics of  Remediation,鈥� in United Islands? The Languages of     Resistance. Ed. Michael Brown, John  Kirk, and Andrew Noble. London: Pickering and Chatto,2012. 95-108. 
  • 鈥淩obert Burns,鈥� in The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, ed. Fred Burwick. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2012. 189-196.  
  • Introduction: 鈥淎e [Electric Spark o Nature鈥檚 Fire鈥�: Reading Burns Across the Atlantic,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Robert Burns in Transatlantic Culture, ed. Sharon Alker, Leith Davis and Holly Nelson (Ashgate, 2012), 1-18.  (R)
  • 鈥淭he Robert Burns 1859 Centenary: Mapping Transatlantic (Dis)location鈥� in Robert Burns in Transatlantic Culture, ed. Sharon Alker, Leith Davis and Holly Nelson (Ashgate, 2012), 187-208. (R)
  • 鈥溾�橬ation, Language and Nation Language鈥�: Robert Burns and Kamau Brathwaite鈥� in Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature, ed. Michael Gardiner, Graeme MacDonald and Niall O鈥橤allagher (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), 15-29.   (R)
  • 鈥淩ules of Art: The Life of Burns on Page and Stage, 1786-1954鈥� in Robert Burns in Global Culture, ed. Murray Pittock (Lanham, Maryland: Bucknell University Press, 2011), 229-246.  (R)
  • 鈥淢alvina鈥檚 Daughters: Irish Women Writers Respond to Ossian鈥� in Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production ed. Jim Kelly (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 141-160.  (R)
  • 鈥淩obert Burns and Transnational Culture,鈥� in Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns, ed. Gerard Carruthers (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2009), 150-163.  
  • 鈥淩efiguring the Popular in Charlotte Brooke鈥檚 Reliques of Irish Poetry in Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland, ed. Philip Connell and Nigel Leask (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009), 72-87. (R)
  • "Orality and Public Poetry, 1707-1918" (with Maureen McLane), Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Vol. 2.  Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2006. 125-132.
  • "'Coming to the Past': Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief and Scottish Diasporic Identity in a Post-Devolution Era," inCulture, Nation and the New Scottish Parliament. Ed. Caroline McCracken-Flescher. Lewisburgh: Bucknell University Press, 2006. 
  • "At 'Sang About': Scottish Song and the Challenge to British Culture," Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism. Ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen. Cambridge University Press, 2004. (R) 

DIGITAL WORKS: 

"Isolating the 鈥淟ight of Song鈥�: Vincentia Rodgers鈥檚 Cluthan and Malvina," Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era, ed. Stephen Behrendt, Alexander Street Press,  (2008)

"Ellen Taylor and the Politics of Affect," Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era, ed. Stephen Behrendt, Alexander Street Press,  (2008)

"Negotiating Irishness: Charlotte Brooke鈥檚 Reliques of Irish Poetry," Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era, ed. Stephen Behrendt, Alexander Street Press, (2008)

"Gender, Genre and the Imagining of the Scottish Nation: the Songs of Lady Nairne" Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Era, ed. Stephen Behrendt and Nancy Kushigian. Alexander Street Press.<http://www.alexanderst.com/product.sheets/product.sheet.swrp.htm> (2002)

"Nation and Translation: Margaret Turner Re(-)covers Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd." Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Ed. Stephen Behrendt and Nancy Kushigian. Alexander Street Press. <http://www.alexanderst.com/product.sheets/product.sheet.swrp.htm> (2002)

SELECTED CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

"Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present," co-organized with Kevin James, University of Guelph (Aug. 27-28, 2022)

"New Perspectives on 'The Lyon in Mourning,'" Institute for Advanced Studies of the Humanities, Edinburgh University (June 29-30, 2022)

鈥淲orld Congress of Scottish Literatures,鈥� Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver, BC (June 21-24, 2017)

"On the Edge: Transitions, Transgressions and Transformations in Irish and Scottish Studies," 丁香园AV Harbour Centre (June, 2013). (Co-organized with Willeen Keough)

鈥淩obert Burns in a Transatlantic Context,鈥� 丁香园AV Harbour Centre (April, 2009)

Over 80 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, PLENARY TALKS, INVITED TALKS

SELECTED GRANTS:

2022: SSHRC Connection Grant for "Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present" ($24,800)

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" ($18,000)

2021: SSHRC Insight Grant for "Mediating Jacobites, 1688-1845" ($60,000)

2019: Small SSHRC Grant for Digital Humanities Project ($7000)

2017: Small SSHRC Grant for 鈥淩econstructing Early Circus鈥� DH project ($7000)

2017: FIC Grant for 鈥淐ircuits of Romantic-Era Circuses鈥� ($6000)

2017: SSHRC Connection Grant for 鈥淲orld Congress of Scottish Literatures鈥� ($23,500)

2012: SSHRC Connection Grant for 鈥淥n the Edge: Transitions, Transgressions and Transformations in Irish and Scottish Studies鈥� Conference ($23,000).

2010: SSHRC Standard Research Grant for 鈥淣ationalism and globalization in 18th-C. British print culture鈥�&苍产蝉辫;project ($47,981)

2008: SSHRC Workshop Grant ($24,500) for 鈥淩obert Burns in a Transatlantic Context鈥� workshop, April 7-9, 2009

2004: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant   "Print Culture and Transnational identity" project ($50,283).

1999: ASECS Irish-American Travel Grant; Special Award (US$600)  

1998-2001: SSHRC Grant ($29,800) for "Nation and Notation" project  

1993-96: SSHRC Grant ($45,000) for "Acts of Union" project 

AWARDS:

2021: British Library Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship 

2020: Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities Digital Research Fellowship

2020: Amundsen Fellowship (Institute for Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines)

2018: Lesley B. Cormack Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching

2016-2019: Visiting Professor, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow

2010: 丁香园AV Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Dean鈥檚 Medal for Academic Excellence