Professor Murray Pittock MA D.Phil. D.Litt. FEA FRHistS FRSE
Bradley Professor of English Literature
Head of College and Vice-Principal (Arts)
- Romanticism 1740-1840
- Jacobitism 1688-1760
- National identity since 1688
- Post-1945 Scottish & Irish culture and society
Room 304, 6 University Gardens
telephone: 0141 330 5253
e-mail: Murray.Pittock@glasgow.ac.uk
Publications
Biography
Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor of English Literature. He has formerly held senior appointments in Scottish and English literature at the universities of Manchester, Edinburgh and Strathclyde, and has had visiting appointments at universities including Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Auburn and Yale. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the English Association, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Arts and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland among other bodies. Murray's books are set on courses in English, History, Irish Studies, theology and politics in leading universities in around twenty-five countries, and he has been awarded or shortlisted/nominated for a number of literary and historical prizes and prize lectureships: in 2002 he was British Academy Chatterton Lecturer and in 1992-3 held the Royal Society of Edinburgh's BP Humanities Prize. His most recent books are The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism (forthcoming, 2011), Robert Burns in Global Culture (forthcoming, 2011), Loyalty and Identity: Jacobites at Home and Abroad (co-editor, 2009), The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: the Jacobite Army in 1745 (2009), Scottish and Irish Romanticism (2008), The Road to Independence? Scotland Since the Sixties (2008, Catalan edition 2009, launched by the First Minister in Barcelona), The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe (2007), James Boswell (2007) and the co-edited Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (2006).
Since 2004, he has won five grants to work on redefining national Romanticisms, including four from the Arts and Humanities Research Council: currently he is Principal Investigator of the AHRC Beyond Text grant, "Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory", and one of the editors of the Oxford Collected Burns. He is also working on a monograph on the relationship between material culture and sedition ('Treacherous Objects') and on the relationship between souvenirs and the composure of memory. In 2006, he co-organized the "Scottish Romanticism in World Literatures" conference at UC Berkeley, which marked a watershed in the recognition of a distinct Scottish Romanticism and its global encounters. Murray has appeared in the UK and overseas media on over 170 occasions (e.g. In Our Time: Glencoe, 21 January 2010- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pxrr7), and regularly acts as a consultant, most recently on the ballad opera Macpherson's Rant, premiered in Edinburgh in October 2009. Three of his former postgraduate students were appointed to positions in Northumbria, Taiwan and GIST Korea in 2010.
Current PhD students
Kang-yen Chiu (BA National Central Taiwan MA York). ‘Self as Other: Hospitality, Nation and Empire in Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels’
David Parrish (MA Arkansas). ‘Jacobitism in the North American and West Indian Colonies’
Vivien Williams (MA Bari). ‘The Cultural History of the Bagpipe’
Victoria Woolner (BA Toronto M Litt Glasgow). ‘The Influence of Scottish Romanticism on Canadian Literary Identity’