Niall Mackenzie

Biography

Niall MacKenzie holds an undergraduate degree in History from Washington and Lee University and a doctorate in English from the University of Cambridge, where he was among the last research students to be supervised by the late Howard Erskine-Hill. Before coming to SFU, he was a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UBC. Niall’s publications on literary-historical matters have appeared in a number of journals and edited collections, including "Scottish Gaelic Studies," "Éigse," "Studia Neophilologica," "The Review of English Studies," and "The Age of Johnson." He is a grandson of Kate MacKenzie (Caitrìona Uilleim Iain mhic Artair, 1876–1979), a noted Cape Breton Island tradition bearer.