School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures

The Centre for the History of the Book

Personnel

Staff Research Directory

Hogarth Scholars
Name Interests
   
Patricia Allerston (History) Papermaking in 16th- and 17th-century Italy; the Venetian publishing industry; printing in early modern Europe; reading practices; bookselling and the circulation of texts
   
Andrew Barker (German) Scrapbooks and ephemera; Vienna 1900
   
Bill Bell (English Literature) 19th-century publishing history; reading practices; the book in 19th century Scotland; convict and emigrant readers; tourism and the book trade; reading in the first world war
   
Philip Bennett (French) Editing of medieval French literature; formation and reception of cycles; bibliography of Guillaume d'Orange Cycle; author and public in the middle ages
   
Jonquil Bevan (English Literature) 17th-century book trade; the printing history of Isaak Walton; the hand press
   
Andrew Brown (History) The book in relation to civic life and religion in 14th- and 15th-century Bruges
   
Michael Bury (Fine Art) Italian 17th-century prints; illustrated books; publishing
   
Ian Campbell (English Literature) Textual criticism; 19th-century authorship; the publishing history of thomas Carlyle and Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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J. P. Campbell (Fine Art) Conservation of manuscripts and book illustrations (particularly relating to the Scottish Enlightenment); 19th-century text and image
   
Viccy Coltman (History of Art) Visual and material culture in C18th Britain, with a special focus on Scotland
   
Iain Donaldson (Biomedical Sciences)

Medical publishing and translations in Paris and London (16th and 17th centuries). Illustration and construction of 16th century books. Digitisation of renaissance print.

   
Peter France (French) Published translations; the publising history of Nelson's French Series
   
Ian Fraser (Scottish Studies) Scottish place-names; landscape history; toponomy
   
Peter Freshwater (University Library) The publication of Scottish music
   
William Gillies (Celtic and Scottish Studies)
Gaelic publishing and printing history; the circulation of texts; the production and use of manuscripts; bibliography and textual criticism
   
Barbara Hilliers (Celtic)
Authorship; composition and performance of early Irish narrative; orality-literacy; manuscript culture and the printed text
   
Tony Howatt (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics)
History of literacy; teaching practices and the learning of reading
   
Tom Hubbard (English Literature)
Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation
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Larry Hurtado (Divinity) Early Christian codex; Greek papyri (100-400AD); nomina sacra
   
Anne King (English Language)
Textual editing; Old English and Older Scots manuscripts and their survival
   
Timothy Lim (Divinity)

Production and use of manuscripts (including The Dead Sea Scrolls); digitization; copyright and intellectual property (especially in regard to ancient manuscripts and artifacts)
   

Bonnie McDougall (Asian Studies)

Authorship; correspondence published during the writer's lifetime
   
Warren McDougall (English Literature)
18th-century Scottish book trade; transatlantic relations; Charles Elliott
   
Donald Meek (Celtic)
Aspects of the book in Gaelic culture.
   
Alex Murdoch (Scottish History)
History of reading in early modern Scotland
   
Stana Nenadic (Social and Economic History)
Consumption in 18th-century Britain; Highland gentry in the 18th century; books and prints
   
Nicholas Phillipson (History)
The book in the Scottish Enlightenment
   
John Renwick (French)
Library catalogues of the 18th century (particularly France and Scotland)
   
Marion Schmidt (French)
Genetic and textual criticism; self-censorship (particularly in the the manuscripts of Proust)
   
J.C.G. Strachan (Classics)
Textual editing (particularly Plato and Euripides); paleography
   
Roger Tarr (Fine Art)
Drawing books of the later Middle Ages; Italian manuscripts
   
Richard Thomson (Fine Art)
Book and magazine illustration (particularly late 19th-century); Toulouse-Lautrec; Bonnard; George de Fevre
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