Studies in Scottish Literature

Volume 26 | Issue 1 Article 51

1991 Contributors

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A. J. Aitken. Honorary Professor of the University of Edinburgh. As­ sisted William A. Craigie in editing the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from 1948 and succeeded him as Editor in 1955, retiring in 1986. Supervised the planning and the early stages of The Concise Scots Dictionary (1985) and was its Editorial Consultant and Pronunciation Editor. Taught Scots Language in the English Language Department of Edinburgh Univer­ sity from 1949 to 1978, pioneering the teaching of most aspects of this study. In addition to his contributions to dictionaries, he has published copiously in Older and Modem Scots, Scottish English and on lexicography.

David W. Atkinson. Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Has pub­ lished widely in the areas of comparative literature and culture; special inter­ est in seventeenth-century Scottish literature. Most recent book is the Selected Sermons ofUichary Boyd (1989).

Richard W. Bailey. Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. His essay in this volume continues the study of Scotland and its English begun with "Teaching in the Vernacular: Scotland, Schools and Linguistic Diversity" in The Nuttis Schell: Essays on the Scots Language (1987). Author of Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language (1991).

Priscilla Bawcutt. Graduate of the University of London. Lectured at the Universities of London and Durham, and is now Honorary Fellow in the Department of Literature at the University of Liverpool. Among her numer­ ous publications on Scottish literature are an edition of The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the STS (1967); Gavin Douglas: a Critical Study (1976); with Felicity Riddy, Longer Scottish Poems 1375-1650 (1987) and Dunbar the Makar (1991). 574 Contributors

Charles Calder. B.A., London; M.A., Aberdeen and Liverpool; Ph.D., Aberdeen. Principal interests are Shakesperian studies and the his­ tory of rhetorical study of King John. Holds the post of Teaching Fellow in English in the University of Aberdeen. Forthcoming publications include papers on Shakespearian and rhetorical topics.

John F. Cartwright. M.A., Oxford; Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Toronto. Lectured at the Universities of Stellenbisch, Toronto and Cape Town. At present Associate Professor in English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Cape Town. Editing Sir Gilbert Hay's Alexander for the STS (two volumes out, one to go). Also doing research on and translation in sixteenth-century Dutch drama and processions.

Charles S. Coventry. Studied English and classics at St. Andrews Uni­ versity. On completing this course studied Gaelic at Perth College of Fur­ ther Education. Writes regularly for Gairm. Moved to Edinburgh in 1983 and began Gaelic studies at Edinburgh University. Graduated Ph.D. in 1991 with a thesis on the Gillies Collection. Plans a new edition of Gillies. Does freelance work including proofreading and family history research.

Thomas R. Dale. Professor Emeritus of English, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. Has written many articles and reviews on various aspects of Scott.

Deanna Delmar Evans. Associate Professor of English at Bemidji State University, recently elected to the Advisory Board of the Medieval Associa­ tion of the Midwest. Has published articles in SSL, Neophilologus, and the Minnesota English Journal, and received a "best article" award from MEl in 1986. Reviews regularly for Choice and occasionally for other journals.

Kenneth D. Farrow. Studied English, Fine Art and Religious Studies at Stirling University. Ph.D. in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow with a thesis "John Knox: Reformation Rhetoric and the Traditions of Scots Prose." Post-Doctoral Fellow in Scottish Literature with the British Academy, held in the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow Univer­ sity.

Alisoun Gardner-Medwin (nee Shire). Born and educated in Cam­ bridge where she took her B.A. Spent 1959-60 in Copenhagen reading Medieval and Renaissance Danish ballads. After marriage and children, continued research privately. In 1969-71 was a Fellow of the Radcliffe In­ stitute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 1976 took a Ph.D. at the Univer­ sity of Newcastle upon Tyne. Teaches in high school there. Contributors 575

R. James Goldstein. Assistant Professor of English at Auburn Univer­ sity. He is the author of "The Matter of Scotland": Historical Writing in Medieval Scotland (forthcoming, University of Nebraska Press).

Rosemary Greentree. Graduate of the University of Adelaide, now working on !l Ph.D. thesis, an annotated bibliography of criticism of the Middle English lyrics. Took part in the reading of The Parliament of Fowles for a Chaucer studio tape, and an article in The Researcher (on truth in fic­ tion) is forthcoming. There are hopes for publication of her M.A. thesis on Henryson's Fables.

Jeremiah Hackett. B.A. and M.Phll. in Medieval Studies, University of Dublin; Ph.D., University of Toronto. Chair, Department of Philosophy and Theology, Notre Dame College of Ohio, 1981-84. Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina. Research work: Roger Bacon, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval History.

Th. van Heijnsbergen. Junior Researcher at the University of Gronin­ gen, preparing a critical edition of the poems of Alexander Scott, while at the same time teaching late medieval and modern literature in the English De­ partment. Has written on Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and on late Victo­ rian fiction.

L. A. J. R. Houwen. Graduated from the Universities of Nijmegen and Sheffield. Has been a Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Groningen since 1989. His publications include an edition of a Middle Scots universal history modelled on the concept of the six ages, The Sex Werkdays and Agis. An edition of The Deidis of Arnoe is forthcoming with STS. He has a special interest in medieval animal symbolism and is currently engaged on an edition of Caxton's Golden Legend.

Benjamin T. Hudson. M.A. from the National University of Ireland in Medieval Studies; Ph.D. from Oxford in history with a thesis entitled "Aspects of Scottish Kingship, A.D. 840-1058." Has published in the Jour­ nal of the Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland and Scottish Gaelic Studies. Is working on the kings of Celtic Scotland and the Prophecy of Berchan.

Robert L. Kindrick. Provost at the University of Montana. Author of Roben Henryson (1979) in addition to numerous articles on Henryson, as well as publications on Beowulf, Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Mallory, and Anti-Chivalric satire. A book-length study of Henryson and the Medieval Ans of Rhetoric is in preparation. 576 Contributors

A. M. Kinghorn. Graduate of the University of Aberdeen and Pem­ broke College, Cambridge. Retired after teaching in the USA, Canada, the West Indies, Denmark and the Middle East. Co-editor with Alexander Law of the STS Works of Allan Ramsay and author of numerous books and arti­ cles on medieval and eighteenth-century literature. Member of the Editorial Board of SSL.

Gregory Kratzmann. Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe Univer­ sity, Australia. Has published a number of articles on medieval and Renais­ sance Scottish poetry, and is the author of Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations, 1430-1550. Has edited Colkelbie Sow and The Talis of the Fyve Bestes and is co-editor of The Dialogues of Creatures Moralysed. He is currently working on an edition of sixteenth-:century Scottish satirical poetry.

Donald A. Low. Director of the Centre for Scottish Literature and Culture at the University of Stirling. Has published a number of books re­ lating to Burns, including Roben Burns: The Critical Heritage (1974), Roben Burns: The Kilmarnock Poems (1985), and a facsimile edition of The Scots Musical Museum (2 vols., 1990). In the summer of 1990 he was first W. Ormiston Roy Fellow in Scottish Poetry at the University of South Car­ olina, where much of the research for the article here included was carried out. An edition of The Songs of Roben Burns will appear shortly.

Roderick J. Lyall is Titular Professor and Head of the Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow. Editor of William Lamb's Ane Resonynge of Ane Scottis and Inglis Merchand and of Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis; co-editor of Sir Thomas Urquhart's The Jewel and of the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scot­ tish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance). Has contributed articles on Scottish topics to several journals.

J. Derrick McClure. Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Univer­ sity of Aberdeen. Chainnan of Language Committee of Association for Scottish Literary Studies. Editor of Scottish Language. Author of Saltire Society pamphlet Why Scots Matters, numerous articles and conference papers on Scottish literary and linguistic topics, and a chapter on English in Scotland in the forthcoming Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume of selected articles forthcoming from Benjamins (Amsterdam). Has taught in Tiibingen, Ottawa and Luxembourg. Extra-curricular interests in­ clude Native American history and cultures and Japanese language and liter­ ature. Contributors 577

Matthew P. McDiarmid. Educated Glasgow University and Balliol College. Lecturer successively in Aberdeen University, Queens University of Belfast, Aberdeen University. Publications include editions of Scottish poets, Robert Fergusson, Hary's Wallace, Lindsay's Satire (an acting ver­ sion), The Kingis Quair of James Stewart, Barbour's Bruce; a book on Robert Henryson; many articles on medieval and Renaissance Scots poets; two volumes of poetry, Not In My Own Hand and Love in Early Japan and Early Scotland.

A. A. MacDonald. Professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages at the University of Groningen. Author of a number of articles on Middle Scots subjects, in particular on the religious literature of the six­ teenth century.

Craig McDonald. Professor of English at King College, Bristol, Ten­ nessee. A graduate of William and Mary (M.A.) and the University of York (D. Phil. ), he has studied fIfteenth-century Scottish literature, law, politics, and religion, centering on the work of Robert Henryson and John of Ireland. Recent1y edited Ireland's Meroure of Wyssdome, Vol. 3, for the STS. As­ pires to become a published playwright and novelist.

Steven R. McKenna. Assistant Professor of English at Benedictine College. Previous work on Henryson, Burns and Dunbar has appeared in SSL and SLJ. At present completing a book about Henryson's tragic vision and editing a Festschrift in honor of Allan H. MacLaine.

John MacQueen. Taught in Washington University, St. Louis, Mis­ souri, from which he moved to the University of Edinburgh. There he was Director of the School of Scottish Studies and Professor of Scottish Literature and Oral Tradition. Since his retirement in 1988, he has been an Endowment Fellow. His books include Robert Henryson (1967), Numerology (1985) and The Enlightenment and Scottish Literature (2 vols., 1982, 1989).

Sally Mapstone. B.A. and D. Phil., Oxford University; Fellow and Tutor, St. Hilda's College, Oxford. Has published widely on earlier Scottish literature. Her book, The Wisdom of Princes: Advice to Rulers in Late Medieval Scotland, is due out soon. Member of the Council, Scottish Text Society.

Anneli Meunnan-Solin. Lecturer in English Philology at the Univer­ sity of Helsinki since 1974. Has compiled the computer-readable Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots and published on Middle Scots lexis, syntax and prose 578 Contributors

genres. Since 1990 associated with the English in Transition project launched by the English Department of the University of Helsinki.

Michael B. Montgomery. Professor of English, University of South Carolina. Has edited four books on Southern American English, including an annotated bibliography of the subject. Is exploring the evolution of lan­ guage patterns from Scotland to Ulster to North America, particularly to the American South, and has written many papers on aspects of this topic, in­ cluding one on subject-verb concord at the Third International Conference on the Languages of Scotland held in Edinburgh in 1991.

Evelyn S. Newlyn. Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at the State University of New York, College at Brockport. Research focuses on Middle Scots poetry and on Middle Cornish drama. In addition to writing feminist analyses of medieval literature, at present com­ pleting an edition of historical dramatic records, Records of Early English Drama: Cornwall, and an edition of Chaucerian verse.

Joanne S. Norman. Associate Professor, Bishop's University (Quebec). M.A. Toronto; Ph.D. Ottawa. Has published Metamorphoses of an Allegory: The Iconography of the Psychomo.chia in Medieval Art (1988) and articles on Dunbar, allegorical iconography, and rhetoric. Current pro­ jects are an edition of a fourteenth-century illustrated Latin preacher's man­ ual and a study of an illuminated manuscript of early French Renaissance court poetry.

David Parkinson. Currently completing an edition of Douglas's Palis of Honoure and a Handlist of Manuscripts containing Middle English Prose in Edinburgh Libraries. Recently began work on an edition of Alexander Montgomerie's poems for the STS.

Clausdirk Pollner. Professor of English Linguistics in the University of Osnabrock at Vechta. Prior to this he was Visiting Professor of English Lin­ guistics in the Universities of Essen/Germany, Trentolltaly and ViennaJ Austria.

David H. Sabrio. Ph.D., University of South Carolina on George Buchanan's Elegies and Silvae. Currently Associate Professor of English at Texas A & I University. Has read papers and published articles in the areas of pedagogy and Renaissance studies.

Walter Scbeps. Associate Professor of English, State University of New York Stony Brook. Author (with J. Anna Looney) of Middle Scots Contributors 579

Poets: A Reference Guide to James I of Scotland, Roben Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas (1986). Has published numerous articles on Middle Scots, on Chaucer, and on other subjects. Member of the Editorial Board of SSL.

Pamela K. Shaffer. Ph.D., University of Kansas. Currently Assistant Professor of English at Fort Hays State University. Her dissertation, "The

Dynamics of Enumeration and Variation in the Poetry of William Dunbar, II examined techniques of Dunbar's style. Has published an article on Dunbar in Fifteenth Century Studies and has presented several papers on his poetry at regional and national conferences.

Kenneth Simpson. Graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Strath­ clyde, is Senior Lecturer in English and Director of the Centre for Scottish Cultural Studies at Strathclyde. Author of The Protean Scot: The Crisis of Identity in Eighteenth Century Scottish Literature, he has particular teaching and research interests in the eighteenth century, the development of the novel and Scottish literature.

Dietrich Strauss. Holds the Doctorate from the University of Frank­ fort. He teaches at a Gymnasium in Kronberg im Taunus and also Johannes­ Gutenberg University-Germersheim, where he is in charge of instruction in earlier Scottish language and literature. He is the author of Die erotische Dichtung von Roben Burns (1981) and co-edited Scottish Language and Lit­ erature, Medieval and Renaissance (Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference). Has contributed articles on Scottish language and literature to scholarly journals.

Jack Truten. M.A. from Edinburgh University; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Publications include entries on Scott and Macpherson in Gar­ land's forthcoming Romanticism: An Encyclopedia. Currently Visiting In­ structor at Lafayette College. Major interests: Scott's fiction, Scottish folklore and literature, literary regionalism.

C. A. Upton. Works in the Central Library of Birmingham, England. A Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Research in the Humanities at Bir­ mingham University and a columnist for the Birmingham Post. His publica­ tions include work on Scottish neo-Latin, university history and local history.

Elizabeth Walsh. Doctorate from Harvard University; now Professor of English at the University of San Diego. Her edition of the Scottish ro­ mance Rauf Coilyear was published in 1989. 580 Contributors

Janet Hadley Williams. Ph.D. from the Australian National Univer­ sity. Has worked as research assistant (W. Ringler, Jr.'s Bibliography of English Verse, 1988); bibliographer (Early Imprints in Australia project); editor (Australian Historic Records Search; Oxford Reference Dictionary, Australian edition); and at the Australian National Dictionary Centre. Has published articles on Sir David Lyndsay's poems and was joint editor of A Day Estivall (1990). Currently is assembling a book on the reign of James V, and is editing a selection of Lyndsay for the Association for Scottish Lit­ erary Studies.

Peter Zenzinger. Lecturer in the English Department of the Technische Universitiit Berlin. Publications include a study of Ramsay's poetry (1977) and articles on "Habbie Simpson," Carlyle, Stevenson, Rushdie, nationalism in Scottish literary criticism, and contemporary Scottish fiction. Has recently edited a collection of essays on Scotland: Literature, Culture, Politics (1989).

Zhou Guo-Zhen. Professor of English and Literary Translation in Shanghai International Studies University. Has done research in foreign art and literature for over thirty years and translated many books into Chinese, including Life and Times of Rembrandt, Hemingway: Life and Death of a Giant, Picasso: His Life and Work. Compiled A Concise Dictionary of English Collocations in Chinese. Also compiled the Longman Active Study Dictionary, a bilingual English-Chinese dictionary. Interested in Compara­ tive Literature. Published a paper on Robert Burns in Comparative Litera­ ture in China in 1991.