CURRICULUM VITAE

Leith Davis

Professor, Department of English

Director, Centre for Scottish Studies

Simon Fraser University

 

 

PERSONAL: married with three children

 

POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION:

 

PhD: University of California, Berkeley (1990)

 

Dissertation: "Scotland and the Politics of Romanticism: The Representative Fictions of James Macpherson, Robert Burns, and Walter Scott"

 

Supervisor: David Lloyd; Readers: Carol Christ, Paul Thomas

 

MA: University of California, Berkeley (1988)

 

BA Honours: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (1983)

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD:

 

2006-present: Professor, Department of English, Simon Fraser University

 

1999-2006: Associate Professor, Department of English, Simon Fraser University

 

1990-99: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Simon Fraser University

 

1984-1990: Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Print Culture; Romanticism; 18th- and Early 19th- Century Scottish and Irish Literature and Culture; Robert Burns; Nationalism and Literature; Cultural Memory; Folk Music.

 

Other Areas of Interest: Globalization; Postcolonial Studies.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

BOOKS:

 

Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830. Stanford University Press, 1998. 212 pp.

 

Music, Postcolonialism, Gender: The Construction of Irish Identity, 1707-1855. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). 323 pp.

 

EDITED BOOKS:

 

Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism. Ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). 260 pp.

 

Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture, ed. Sharon Alker, Leith Davis and Holly Nelson (Ashgate, 2012), 320 pp. 

 

PUBLISHED ARTICLES: ([R] denotes refereed journal)

 

ÒImagining the Miscellaneous Nation: James WatsonÕs Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots PoemsÓ (Eighteenth-Century Life 35.3 [Fall, 2011]), 60-80.  (R)

 

ÒA New Perspective on the Scottish Diaspora,Ó The Bottle Imp 5 (May 2009) http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/SWE/TBI/TBIIssue5/Diaspora.html

 

ÒNegotiating Cultural Memory: James CurrieÕs Works of Robert BurnsInternational Journal of Scottish Literature Spring/Summer 2010 http://www.ijsl.stir.ac.uk/issue6/davis.htm  (R)

 

"Sequels of Resistance: Edward Bunting's Ancient Irish Melodies and the Irish Nation," Nineteenth-Century Contexts Vol. 23 (2001): 29-57. (R)

 

"From Fingal's Harp to Flora's Song: Scotland, Music and Romanticism," 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)

 

BOOK CHAPTERS: ([R] denotes refereed publication)

 

ÒÕNation, Language and Nation LanguageÕ: Robert Burns and Kamau BrathwaiteÓ in Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature, ed. Michael Gardiner , Graeme MacDonald and Niall OÕGallagher (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), 15-29.   [R}

 

 ÒRules of Art: The Life of Burns on Page and Stage, 1786-1954Ó in Robert Burns in Global Culture, ed. Murray Pittock (Lanham, Maryland: Bucknell University Press, 2011), 229-246.  [R]

 

ÒMalvinaÕs Daughters: Irish Women Writers Respond to OssianÓ in Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production ed. Jim Kelly (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 141-160.  [R]

 

ÒRobert Burns and Transnational Culture,Ó in Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns, ed. Gerard Carruthers (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2009), 150-163. 

 

ÒRefiguring the Popular in Charlotte BrookeÕs 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

 

"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," in Culture, 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. 

 

 "Re-Presenting Scotia: Robert Burns and the Imagined Community of Scotland," in Robert Burns, ed. Carol McGuirk. NY: G.K. Hall, 1998.

 

 DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS:

 

"Isolating the ÒLight of SongÓ: Vincentia RodgersÕs Cluthan and Malvina," Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era, ed. Stephen Behrendt, Alexander Street Press, http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/iwrp/ (2008)

 

"Ellen Taylor and the Politics of Affect," Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era, ed. Stephen Behrendt, Alexander Street Press, http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/iwrp/ (2008)

 

"Negotiating Irishness: Charlotte BrookeÕs Reliques of Irish Poetry," Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era, ed. Stephen Behrendt, Alexander Street Press, http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/iwrp/ (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)

 

REPUBLICATIONS:

 

"Irish Bards and English Consumers: Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies and the Colonized Nation," Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Volume 110. Ed. Edna Hedblad. NY: Gale, 2002.

 

DICTIONARY ENTRIES:

 

"James Currie," Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 142: Eighteenth-Century British Literary Biographers, 61-68.

 

FORTHCOMING CHAPTERS:

 

ÒThe Politics of Remediation in Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish PoetryÓ in United Islands: Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry in Romantic Britain, ed. Andrew Noble, Michael Brown, Catriona Kennedy and John Kirk (Pickering and Chatto) [R]

 

ÒThe Robert Burns 1859 Centenary: Mapping Transatlantic (Dis)locationÓ in Robert Burns in Transatlantic Culture, ed. Sharon Alker, Leith Davis and Holly Nelson (Ashgate)

 

ÒRobert BurnsÓ in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Poetry (ed. Nancy Goslee)

 

ÒScottish Writing After 1707Ó in Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature ed. Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney (Cambridge University Press)

 

COMPLETED ARTICLES:

ÒTransnational Articulations in James MacphersonÕs Poems of Ossian and the History and Management of the East-India CompanyÓ (accepted for resubmission at Eighteenth-Century Studies)

  

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY:

 

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

 

ÒRobert Burns in a Transatlantic Context,Ó SFU Harbour Centre (April, 2009)

 

"A Celebration of Scottish Music and Song," SFU Harbour Centre (March, 2001)

 

" Culture, Community and Nation: Scotland at Home and Abroad" Conference, SFU Harbour Centre (March, 2000) (Co-organized with Steve Duguid of Humanities)

 

PLENARY ADDRESSES:

ÒMapping Burns in Transatlantic Culture,Ó Robert Burns, 1759-2009, University of Glasgow, January, 2009. 

 

"Scotland, Print Culture, and Transnational Identity in Britain after 1688: The Case of James Macpherson," Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2007.               .

 

"Nation and Notation: Irish Music, British Culture and the Transatlantic Experience, 1830-1874," "Brave New Wor[l]ds: Rethinking National Consciousness," Graduate Student Conference, Simon Fraser University, September 18-20.

 

INVITED TALKS:

ÒThe Robert Burns 1859 Centenary: Mapping Transatlantic (Dis)location,Ó QueenÕs University, Belfast

 

SEMINAR LEADER:

 

"Diverse Subjects: Scotland and Transnational Identity in the Long Romantic Era," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (Toronto, Ontario), August, 2008.

 

INVITED PAPERS:

 

ÒÕRules of ArtÕ: The Life of Burns on Page and Stage, 1786-1954,Ó Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, January, 2009.  

"Remediating Irish Song: Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry," Multi-lingual Radical Popular Poetry and Song in the United British Isles (Queen's University, Belfast), November 2008. 

 

"ÒBlame not the BardÓ: Thomas Moore, the Irish Melodies and the Politics of Print Culture," "Medium Cool Romanticism: Audiovision circa 1800," University of California at Berkeley, April, 2005. (unable to attend in person because of death in immediate family; paper read and powerpoint slides presented by colleague)

 

ÒIrish Music and British Culture,Ó Politics of Print Culture conference, Carleton University (July, 2004)

 

ÒIrish Music, Print, and the Gendering of Diasporic Culture,Ó Print and Book Culture Conference, Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, Winnipeg, (June, 2004)

 

"Nation and Notation: Music and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland," paper delivered to the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities (Nov., 1997)

 

"A Man's a man: Gender and Nationalism in the Work of Robert Burns," International Burns Conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, (January, 1996).

 

"Defoe, Lord Belhaven and the Act of Union Debate," paper delivered at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland (November, 1993)

 

"Defoe and the Act of Union," paper delivered to the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh University (November, 1993)

 

"Origin of the Specious: James Macpherson and the Forging of the British Empire," Special Panel on Scottish Studies, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Seattle, Washington (March, 1992)

 

PAPERS READ AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES:

 

ÒBetween Nation and Empire: ScotlandÕs Darien Venture,Ó American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque (March, 2010)

 

ÒConnecting Four Nations Studies with Global Studies,Ó roundtable presentation, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque (March, 2010)

 

ÒRobert Burns and Cultural Memory,Ó Robert Burns in a Transatlantic Context, SFU Harbour Centre (April, 2009)

 

"Remediating Irish Song: Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry," Centre for the Study of Print and Media Culture workshop, SFU, April 2008.

 

"Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry and Irish Popular Song,Ó American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, Oregon. March 2008.

 

"Mediating Popular Culture: Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century  Studies, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 2007.

 

"The Printer As Patriot: James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems,Ó Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture, Saskatoon, Sask;, May 2007.

 

"From Picts to Pixels: Scotland, Cyberspace and Global Technologies of Nostalgia," Scottish Romanticism and World Literature, University of California, Berkeley, September 2006.

 

"Articulating Scotland c. 1707: James WatsonÕs Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems and George MackenzieÕs Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Montreal (April 2006)

 

 ÒCrossing Borders: Orality and Print in 18th-Century Scottish Song Collections," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of British Columbia (October, 2003).

 

"Contesting the Spectacle of Colonialism: Irish Music and the Politics of Aurality in the Eighteenth-Century," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. U. of Saskatchewan (October, 2001)

 

"Echoes of Resistance: Sidney Owenson's Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies and The Wild Irish Girl," Women in the Republic of Letters Conference, U. of Saskatchewan (October, 2000)

 

"Sidney Owenson, Gender and the Construction of the Nation," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia (March, 2000)

 

"Eighteenth-Century Scottish Music," Culture, Community and Nation: Scotland at Home and Abroad Conference, SFU Harbour Centre (March, 2000)

 

"From Fingal to Fingal's Cave: Scotland, Music and Romanticism," Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago (December, 1999)

 

"Gender, Music and the Nation in Sidney Owenson's Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies," International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dublin, Ireland (July, 1999)

 

"Writing Woman/Rewriting Man: Charlotte Brooke's Revisions of Joseph Cooper Walker in the Reliques of Irish Poetry," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI (March, 1999)

 

"Hailing the Hibernian Muse: Music, Print Culture and Irish National Identity," SHARP Conference, Vancouver, B.C. (July, 1998)

 

"Joseph Cooper Walker's Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards," ASECS Conference, Notre Dame, IN (April, 1998)

 

"N(ot)ational Generations: George Petrie's The Ancient Music of Ireland," British Association of Romantic Studies, Leeds, Engand (July, 1997)

 

"Culture and Violins: Music and National Identity in George Petrie's The Ancient Music of Ireland", Institute on Culture and Society, Corvallis (June, 1997)

 

"Nation and Notation: Turlough Carolan and the Commodification of Irish Identity in the Eighteenth Century", American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Nashville (April, 1997)

 

"Harping on the Past: Turlough Carolan and the Construction of Irish Nationalisms in the Eighteenth Century", Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Berkeley (February, 1997)

 

"Canonical Crossings: The Case of Felicia Hemans" (with Margaret Linley), North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston (November, 1996)

 

"Nation and Notation: The Indeterminacies of National Identity in Edward Bunting's Ancient Irish Music" Eighteenth-Century Ireland Conference, Limerick, Ireland (May, 1996)

 

"Pretending Fictions: Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and the Rebellion of 1745," Conference on "Jacobitism and the 1745 Rebellion," organized by the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society and the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland (August, 1995)

 

"Talking Notes: Music, Nationalism and Edward Bunting's Ancient Irish Music" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Tucson, Arizona (April, 1995).

 

"The Politics of Hypochondriasis: James Currie's Works of Robert Burns," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (October, 1994).

 

"Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies and the Colonized Nation," British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, London, England (September, 1993)

 

"Gender, Genre and Writing the Nation: Henry Brooke's and Charlotte Brooke's Ireland," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, London, Ontario (August, 1993)

 

"English Bards and Scots Reviewers: The Debate Between William Wordsworth and Francis Jeffrey," British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, Glasgow, Scotland (July, 1993)

 

"Acts of Union: Writing the Nation in 1707," Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Santa Barbara, California (February, 1993)

 

"Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies and the Deconstruction of the Irish Nation," Tri-Universities Conference, Victoria, B.C. (March 1992)

 

"Re-birth of a Nation: Female Patriotism and the Woman Writer in Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry, Department of English Colloquium, Simon Fraser University (January, 1992)

 

"Bounded to a District Space: Robert Burns and the Borders of English Romantic Poetry," Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Calgary, Alberta (October, 1991)

 

"Harping on the Past: James Macpherson's and Thomas Moore's Re-presentations of National History," American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (October, 1991)

 

"Burns, Wordsworth and the Effects of Original Genius, " Department of English Colloquium, Simon Fraser University (January, 1991)

 

"James Macpherson and the Forging of the Nation," English Department Graduate Colloquium, University of Berkeley, California (December, 1989)

 

PANEL ORGANIZATION:

 

Organizer, "Writing (and) the Union: Textual Responses to 1800," Irish Caucus Panel, ASECS Conference, Philadelphia (April, 2000)

 

Organizer, "Music and National Identity in Ireland," International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dublin, Ireland (July, 1999)

 

Organizer, "Print Culture on the Margins of Britain," SHARP Conference, Vancouver, B.C. (July, 1998) 

 

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS:

 

2010: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences DeanÕs Medal for Academic Excellence

 

2010: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant 

 

2008: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Workshop Grant ($24,500) for ÒRobert Burns in a Transatlantic ContextÓ workshop, April 7-9, 2009

 

2004: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant ($50,283.00 including Research Time Stipend) for "Print Culture and Transnational identity in Britian and Ireland, 1700-1850" project.

 

2003: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Small Research Grant ($3,300) for "Rewriting Nostalgia" and Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature projects

 

2000: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Small Research Grant ($4,900) for "Scotland and the Boundaries of Romanticism" and "Scotland, Music and Romanticism" projects

 

1999: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Irish-American Travel Grant; Special Award (US$600)  

 

1998: Publications Grant ($1,073), Simon Fraser University to prepare index for Acts of Union book

 

1998-2001: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant ($29,800) for "Nation and Notation" project

 

Fall, 1997: Research Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Great Britain (non-stipendary)

 

1997: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Small Grant ($4,999) for "Nation and Notation" project

 

1997: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada North American Travel Grant ($500) for ASECS conference in Nashville

 

1993-96: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant ($45,000) for "Acts of Union" project

 

1991: President's Research Council Grant ($3,298) for preliminary research for "Acts of Union" project

 

1988: U.C. Berkeley Humanities Graduate Research Grant (US$1,000)

 

1986: U.C. Berkeley Humanities Graduate Research Grant (US$1,000)

 

1985: British Commonwealth Scholarship (declined)

 

1981-82: Rotary Undergraduate Scholarship