Wednesday 6 July 2016

Rooms 433 & 435, St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow

The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities & the Universities' Committee for Scottish Literature would like to announce the last of its four workshops designed to provide doctoral students of eighteenth & nineteenth century literature with the knowledge & skills required for the scholarly editing of texts from the period.

Doctoral students of literary studies from any Scottish University who book a place on any workshop will have second-class rail fare from their home University to the venue reimbursed. Lunch is also included. Attendance at previous workshops is not a prerequisite for participating in this one. Please book your place on this workshop by emailing Bob Irvined at r.p.irvine@ed.ac.uk

Programme

 1.00 - 2.00: Lunch (Room 433)

Room 435

2.00 - 2.15: Editing Burns for the Twenty-First Century: a general introduction

Prof. Gerard Carruthers, PI, Editing Robert Burns for the Twenty-First Century

2.15 - 3.00: Editing Burns's Commonplace Books: Paratextual Materials & Notes

Prof. Nigel Leask, editor, The Works of Robert Burns Volume 1: Commonplace Book, Tour Journals, & Miscellaneous Prose (OUP, 2014)

3.00 - 3.30: Coffee (Room 433)

Room 435

3.30 - 4.00: Songs for George Thomson: the complexities of an intricate bibliography.

Dr Kirsteen McCue, editor, The Works of Robert Burns Volume IV & V: Songs for George Thomson (OUP, forthcoming)

4.00 - 4.30: Songs for George Thomson: a Research Assistant's Perspective

Dr Gerard Lee McKeever, RA, Editing Robert Burns for the Twenty-First Century

4.30 - 5.00: Editing Burns in the Digital Age

Dr Pauline Mackay, Lecturer in Robert Burns Studies

5.00 - 5.30: ERB21 Speakers' Roundtable & questions

Chair: Dr Rhona Brown, Head of Scottish Literature

First published: 27 June 2016