Dr Amy Wilcockson

  • Research Assistant (Scottish Literature)

Biography

Amy Wilcockson joined the University of Glasgow in 2023 as Research Assistant on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project 'The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies'. Amy is working alongside PI, Professor Rhona Brown, as the project seeks to produce a new textual edition of the works of Robert Fergusson (1750-1774), forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in 2026. She is also assisting with a range of collaborations and events throughout 2024 to mark the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's death. 

In August 2023, Amy completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham. Her doctoral thesis, entitled ‘A Scholarly Edition of the Selected Letters of the Scottish Romantic Poet, Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)’, is the first scholarly edition of the neglected Scottish poet and public figure’s letters, and the first edition of any of his writings since 1907. 

Amy is also the current Communications Officer for the British Association for Romantic Studies.

Research interests

  • Textual editing
  • Scottish eighteenth century and Romantic literature
  • Letters and life writing
  • Literary networks
  • Periodicals

Publications

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2025

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (Eds.) (2025) 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson. Taproot Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781739207762 (In Press)

2024

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (2024) Scotia's Bard: Robert Fergusson, Edinburgh's unofficial poet laureate and Scotland's voice. History Today, 74(10), pp. 22-24.

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227, Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 and Thompson, Clare (2024) Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-74). [Exhibitions]

Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (2024) Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844). [Website]

Crowther, Katie, van Eyndhoven, Sarah and Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (2024) 100 Letters from Elizabeth Montagu to Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO). [Website]

May, Charlotte and Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (2024) Lord Byron: 9 objects that defined the infamous poet's life and story. BBC History Magazine,

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (2024) The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies. [Website]

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Number of items: 7.

Articles

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (2024) Scotia's Bard: Robert Fergusson, Edinburgh's unofficial poet laureate and Scotland's voice. History Today, 74(10), pp. 22-24.

May, Charlotte and Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (2024) Lord Byron: 9 objects that defined the infamous poet's life and story. BBC History Magazine,

Edited Books

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (Eds.) (2025) 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson. Taproot Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781739207762 (In Press)

Exhibitions

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227, Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 and Thompson, Clare (2024) Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-74). [Exhibitions]

Website

Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (2024) Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844). [Website]

Crowther, Katie, van Eyndhoven, Sarah and Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (2024) 100 Letters from Elizabeth Montagu to Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO). [Website]

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Wilcockson, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-6687 (2024) The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies. [Website]

This list was generated on Wed Aug 27 03:08:31 2025 BST.

Teaching

Amy has taught at the University of Nottingham and Coventry University, at both undergraduate and postgraduate taught levels. She has previously lectured, marked assessments, and delivered seminars and workshops in Literature; Drama; American and Canadian Studies; and Cultural, Media, and Visual Studies.


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