University of Glasgow

Such Editorial Liberties: The Textual Afterlives of Thomas the Rhymer.  

Academic History:

Sept 2011 - May 2015: English Literature MA

Oct 2015 - Sept 2016: MSc English Language and Linguistics

Oct 2016 - Oct 2019: PhD English Language and Linguistics

Supervisors:

Jeremy Smith

Joanna Kopacyk

Research Interests:

• Historical Pragmatics
• Historical Sociolinguistics
• Book History (specifically the transition from script to print)
• History of the English and Scots Languages
• History of Literacy
• British Romanticism
• Linguistic Tropes in Genre Fiction

Previous Research Projects:

Prometheus Politicised: Romantic Receptions of the Promethean Myth (Undergraduate Dissertation, 2014).

The Pilot Historical Thesaurus of Scots (2015).

Gone and Past; Past and Gane: The Textual Afterlives of Thomas the Rhymer (Masters Thesis, 2016). 

Scholarships:

Carnegie Trust Vacation Scholarship (2012)

Carnegie-Cameron Bursary (2015)

AHRC DTP Scholarship (2017-19)

Publications:

‘Gone and Past, Past and Gane’: The Textual Afterlives of Thomas the Rhymer, Aspects of English, Kyoto Postgraduate Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Conference Proceedings (2016). 

‘From Gold to Lead: Walter Scott and the Antiquarian Reception of Thomas the Rhymer’, Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. 44, Issue 2 (Forthcoming: Autumn 2018);

Contact Details:

Email: d.selfe.1@research.gla.ac.uk

First published: 25 September 2017