“Butchering the lambkins”: Robert Burns and Textual Editing Practices (Workshop)

Thursday 23rd of June

10.30am - 12.30pm

Room 6, University of Strathclyde, TIC Building, 99 George St, Glasgow G1 1RD

Dr Kevin Thomas Gallagher & Dr Craig Lamont (University of Glasgow)

Dr Kevin Thomas Gallagher has very recently been awarded a PhD at the University of Glasgow for his research into the nineteenth-century editing of Robert Burns’s textual legacy. He has co-edited a collection of essays on the Radical War of 1820 (due for publication in November 2022) and is also editorial assistant for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns.

Dr Craig Lamont is currently working as a lead Research Associate on two AHRC-funded projects, editing the Works of Robert Burns (Oxford) and Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh). His monograph, The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow was published in 2021.

About this Session

This workshop will focus on postgraduate approaches to textual editing, based on recent doctoral and post-doctoral research undertaken by the presenters. Taking the nineteenth-century editing of Robert Burns as it’s starting point, this workshop will sketch out some of the main contexts around textual editing, including current theory and debates. Attendees will be given the opportunity to investigate some case-studies around how Burns’s textual legacy was edited throughout the nineteenth century, with room for discussion and insight into how this continues to be edited in the 21st century.

Who might be interested?

This session would be of interest to doctoral researchers across the arts and humanities, particularly those working in literary disciplines. Any postgraduate student whose research takes them into any sort of textual analysis may find something useful from this session.

Event contact: k.gallagher.1@research.gla.ac.uk 

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First published: 24 May 2022