Studies in Scottish Literature Volume 26 | Issue 1 Article 51 1991 Contributors Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation (1991) "Contributors," Studies in Scottish Literature: Vol. 26: Iss. 1. Available at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol26/iss1/51 This is brought to you by the Scottish Literature Collections at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Studies in Scottish Literature by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Contributors 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