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 Burns,Ó International 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