Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman is a Research Associate at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies in the department of Scottish Literature. She received her PhD, titled 'Novel Reading and Self-Improvement in Scotland, c.1800-37', in 2025 from the University of Stirling. This research was funded by the AHRC SGSAH DTP, and was co-supervised by the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Cleo is the current Early Career Officer for the British Association for Romantic Studies. 

• Scottish Romanticism
• The Novel in Scotland
• Theories of Improvement
• Women's Writing
• The History of Reading
• Library History
• Canonisation 

Prior publications

• Between October 2021 and June 2025 I was the recipient of a Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarship
• In 2023 I was awarded an AHRC-funded Visiting Doctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the University of California, Berkeley. 

I have taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the Universities of Glasgow, Stirling, and Edinburgh, designing and delivering a range of seminar and lecture material alongside digital resources for students. Course topics have included, but not been limited to: literary theory, the eighteenth-century novel, digital humanities, Romantic poetry, and research skills.