Professor Gerard Carruthers

Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature (Scottish Literature)

telephone: 01413304286
email: Gerard.Carruthers@glasgow.ac.uk

R301 Level 3, Scottish Literature Critical St, 7 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Biography

I was lecturer in the Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde (1995-2000), and Research Fellow at the Centre for Walter Scott Studies, University of Aberdeen (1993-5). I am a graduate of the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and of St Andrew's College of Education, Glasgow. My PhD thesis was on 'The Invention of Scottish Literature During the Long Eighteenth Century'.

During the summer of 2002 I was W. Ormiston Roy Memorial Visiting Research Fellow at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA. During 2011 I was Visiting Professor in English Studies at the University of Wyoming and in 2012 Visiting Honorary Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford and Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Since 2018 I have been Visiting Professor in English Studies at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu). I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Hon Fellow of the English Association, Hon Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literature and I am also the first Honorary Fellow appointed by the World Burns federation.

Research interests

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Robert Burns Studies

I am General Editor of the Oxford University Press Collected Works of Robert Burns, currently for the edition co-editing Correspondence (3 vols) and editing Poetry. The websites for the AHRC funded projects, ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21^st Century’ underpinning the OUP edition feature existing edition outputs, documentaries and other material. My long-standing work on Burns, both criticism and textual editing matters, has seen the publication of Robert Burns (Northcote, 2006), as editor: The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns (EUP, 2009) and two other co-edited collections of critical essays on the writer. I have also published several dozen essays on Burns, and I have edited the largest collection of criticism ever to appear on the poet, The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns (2024). I am writing a new biography of the poet to appear in 2027 and a monograph, Robert Burns: Patronage, Fraternity & the People to appear in 2028.

My Burns work saw me establish the hugely successful Centre for Robert Burns Studies at Glasgow in 2007 (which, especially in relation to the OUP edition, has garnered millions of pounds of research income) and won the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2023. I am Honorary Advisor on Robert Burns to the National Trust for Scotland and Secretary and Trustee at Robert Burns Ellisland Museum and Farm. With my Burns colleagues at Glasgow, I am increasingly involved in manuscript authentication work, advising national and international institutions and auction-houses. In this connection I have appeared on Millionaire Hoarders (Channel 4, 2023) and David Wilson’s Crime Files: Scams & Scandals (BBC2, 2023).

Scottish Literary Studies

Somewhat ironically, since I have expended much energy writing against ‘generalist’ accounts of Scottish Literature that feature an over-reliance on ‘tradition’, a prominent part of my scholarship has dealt with the history of Scottish Literature. I am editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (2024), co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature (2012) and other critical compendia that take the ‘long’ view of writing in Scotland. My Scottish Literature (2009) for Edinburgh University Press also deals with Scottish literary history and critical and theoretical approaches to it. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Scottish Literature which I am co-editing is due to appear in 2025. In this general area I have also worked on the History of Scottish PEN and written on the history of the teaching of Scottish Literature at Glasgow. I am especially interested in confessional (religious) as well as secular/political aspects of Scottish culture.

Related to my interest in the construction of Scottish Literature and its interaction with nationality, most especially with regard to the periods of Enlightenment and Romanticism, I have co-edited two critical collections, English Romanticism and the Celtic World (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Literature & Union: Scottish Texts, British Contexts (Oxford University Press, 2018).

A natural appendage to my interest in Scottish Literature has been in the area of anthologies: for the Everyman Classics series I have edited Scottish Poetry (2006), Burns, Poems (2009) and Scottish Short Stories (2023). I also edited the peer-reviewed, scholarly journals, Scottish Literary Review (2014-2019), organ of the Association for Scottish Literature and, as co-editor, the Burns Chronicle (2020-22).

Literature, History & Politics 1789-1832 (especially in the West of Scotland)

Out of my interests in radical politics, literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have appeared the co-edited, Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the Twenty First Century (Humming Earth, 2016) and 1820: Scottish Rebellion, essays on a nineteenth-century insurrection (John Donald, 2022). In this area too, and in work I have done with Paisley Museum, I am especially interested in the poet, Alexander Wilson and I produced the film, One Night in Paisley, 1822 (2022).

Nineteenth-Century Fiction

I have interests in Walter Scott, as co-editor of his Reliquiae Trotcosienses (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), and I am co-editor of The International Companion to John Galt (ASLS, 2017). I serve on the Joint Advisory Committee at Abbotsford (Scott’s Melrose home and library), and, with the late Ian McGhee, I founded the John Galt Society in 2014, serving as its first Chair until 2019.

Twentieth Century

I have some twentieth-century research interests, editing The Devil to Stage: Five Plays by James Bridie (ASLS, 2007), delivering the 2018 ‘Hugh MacDiarmid Lecture’ at the Scottish Poetry Library on W.S. Graham (whom I believe to be Scotland’s greatest poet of the twentieth century) published by Studies in Scottish Literature at the University of South Carolina as Born in a Diamond, screeched from a mountain pap (2019), and co-editing, The Crooked Dividend: New Essays on Muriel Spark (2023). My dozen essays on Spark are frequently cited.

For the Future I am developing work on heresy trials through the eighteenth century around the city and university of Glasgow.

I hold a number of positions related to my research, these include:

Principal Investigator, ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21^st Century: Correspondence & Poetry’ [major AHRC-funded project, 2017-23]; 'Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century: Songs and Prose' was also funded by the AHRC [2011-16]; over £2M FEC funding. https://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/
General Editor of the new multi-volume edition of the Works of Robert Burns (Oxford University Press
Secretary Board Member of Ellisland Museum Trust https://www.ellislandfarm.co.uk/
Honorary Advisor on Robert Burns to the National Trust for Scotland
University of Glasgow representative on the Abbotsford Library Joint Advisory Committee https://www.scottsabbotsford.com/history/faculty-of-advocates
Member of Research and Ethics Panel, Paisley Museum Reimagined http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/2455/Paisley-Museum-Reimagined
Member of the editorial boards of: Burns Chronicle, Scottish Studies International, Studies in Scottish Literature; international editorial board member, International Review of Scottish Studies.
Member advisory boards for: Edinburgh Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh Edition of John Galt & Edinburgh Edition of the Poetry of Walter Scott; and also for The Review of English Studies.
Member of the committee of The Friends of Thomas Muir.

Current Research Projects

General Editor, The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns.

Robert Burns, Patronage, Fraternity and the People. Monograph in progress.

Robert Burns, An Intellectual Biography. Monograph in Progress

'Walter Scott and Popular Culture' CI; PI, Prof Alison Lumsden (Univ of Aberdeen), Royal Society of Edinburgh grant-funded project, 2018-24.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (Co-Editor).

A strand of my work looks at Slavery and Literature (in the careers of Robert Burns, Thomas Muir of Huntershill and Alexander Geddes and a number of their contemporaries).

Research groups

Romanticism/18th Century

Publications

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Number of items: 199.

2025

Carruthers, G. (2025) Major playwright II: James Bridie and his theatre. In: Stevenson, Randall and Walker, Greg (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 382-396. ISBN 9780192857385 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192857385.013.17)

Burgess, K., Carruthers, G. , Lamont, C. , Newton, J., Smith, G. and Young, R. (2025) Robert Burns: archival aspects of the printed and manuscript record in the digital age. In: Prescott, Andrew and Goudaroli, Eirini (eds.) Archival Materialities in a Digital Age. Series: Proceedings of the British Academy (269). Oxford University Press, pp. 191-214. ISBN 9780197267851

Carruthers, G. (2025) A selective history of Scottish Pen from 1950 to 1997. Studies in Scottish Literature, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Carruthers, G. (2024) ‘Ye Black-nebs a’ by Name’: a draft, cancelled autograph manuscript by Robert Burns. Burns Chronicle, (Accepted for Publication)

Carruthers, G. and Hansen, M. (2024) Fugitive morality in two Scots poets: Robert Burns, Alexander Wilson and the law. In: Demson, Michael and Hewitt, Regina (eds.) Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism (23). Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 152-171. ISBN 9781399500371 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. (2024) Robert Burns: How the Man became Myth. [Website]

Carruthers, G. and Ingham, E. (2024) Robert Burns, Patrick Heron, and an annotated 1793 poems at Mount Stuart. Burns Chronicle, 133(1), pp. 82-91. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2024.0103)

Carruthers, G. (2024) ‘Deeply impressed upon the imagination’: The return of Mary in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In: Reid, Steven J. (ed.) The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 160-178. ISBN 9781399523530 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2024) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198846246 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. (2024) Introduction: Robert Burns, poet and texts in life and afterlife. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-9. ISBN 9780198846246 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. and Baraniuk, C. (2024) Burns biography, 1808–1939. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 568-582. ISBN 9780198846246 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. and Gallagher, K. (2024) The politics of Robert Burns from the 1780s to the 1790s. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 148-163. ISBN 9780198846246 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. and Smith, G. (2024) Bard behaviour: imitating, mistaking, and faking Burns. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 324-337. ISBN 9780198846246 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. (2024) Introduction: What is Scottish literature? In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature. Wiley-Blackwell: Hoboken NJ & Chichester, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781119651444 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. and Broun, D. (2024) The first millennium. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature. Wiley-Blackwell: Hoboken NJ & Chichester, pp. 17-26. ISBN 9781119651444 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2024) A Companion to Scottish Literature. Wiley-Blackwell: Hoboken NJ & Chichester. ISBN 9781119651444

2023

Carruthers, G. (2023) Adam Smith and Scottish literature. In: Mullin, Roger, Mochrie, Robbie and Smith, Craig (eds.) Adam Smith: The Kirkcaldy Papers. Adam Smith Global Foundation: Kirkcaldy, pp. 96-103. ISBN 9781399963497

Carruthers, G. (2023) Robert Burns. [Website]

Carruthers, G. (2023) Useless and useful: Catholic cultural experience of Scotland. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 7(3), pp. 15-30.

Carruthers, G. (2023) Paul Bishop and Robert Burns. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(3-4), pp. 359-362. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2199712)

Carruthers, G. (2023) Losing its religion? Scottish literature & confessional identity. In: Brown, Ian and Godard Desmarest, Clarisse (eds.) Writing Scottishness: Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities. Series: Occasional papers (26). Association for Scottish Literature: Glasgow, pp. 65-83. ISBN 9781908980397

Carruthers, G. and Mackay, P. (2023) A newly discovered manuscript: ‘Twa Neebor-Wives Upon a Time’. Burns Chronicle, 132(2), pp. 229-234. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2023.0089)

Carruthers, G. (2023) Scotland in Britain. In: Murphy, Andrew (ed.) The Nation in British Literature and Culture. Series: Cambridge themes in British literature and culture. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 51-67. ISBN 9781009378857 (doi: 10.1017/9781009378871.004)

Carruthers, G. (2023) Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Enlightenment in Scottish Criticism. In: Fyfe, Aileen and Kidd, Colin (eds.) Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790–1914. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 241-257. ISBN 9781474493031 (doi: 10.1515/9781474493055-017)

Carruthers, G. (2023) Davis and Sorenson, eds. The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century. Eighteenth-Century Studies, [Book Review] (In Press)

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2023) Scottish Stories. Series: Everyman Classics. Everyman's Library: London. ISBN 9780593536285 (In Press)

2022

Scott, P. and Carruthers, G. (2022) Burns and the Altar of Independence: a question of authentication. Studies in Scottish Literature, 48(2), pp. 199-206. (doi: 10.51221/suc.ssl.2023.48.2.15)

Carruthers, G. (2022) One Night in Paisley, 1822 [Film]. [Audio]

Carruthers, G. , Gallagher, K. T., Lamont, C. and Smith, G. (Eds.) (2022) 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910900833

Carruthers, G. and Marchidanu, M. (2022) In search of the Langloan radicals: Janet Hamilton’s ‘Reminiscences of the Radical Time in 1819–20’. In: Carruthers, Gerard, Gallagher, Kevin Thomas, Lamont, Craig and Smith, George (eds.) 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 161-178. ISBN 9781910900833

Carruthers, G. and Gardner, J. (2022) Finding Alexander Rodger, the Glasgow poet, in 1820. In: Carruthers, Gerard, Gallagher, Kevin Thomas, Lamont, Craig and Smith, George (eds.) 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 144-160. ISBN 9781910900833

Carruthers, G. and McLean, R. (2022) Did Burns send cannon to France in 1792? – a new theory of the narrative. Burns Chronicle, 131(2), pp. 139-155. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2022.0054)

Carruthers, G. and Stoddart, H. (Eds.) (2022) The Crooked Dividend: Essays on Muriel Spark. Series: Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literature). Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908980335

Carruthers, G. (2022) Introduction: critical concerns for Muriel Spark. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Stoddart, Helen (eds.) The Crooked Dividend: Essays on Muriel Spark. Series: Occasional Papers (24). Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow, ix-xxviii. ISBN 9781908980335

2021

Carruthers, G. (2021) Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel by Nicole Mansfield Wright. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 34(1), pp. 114-116. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. and Gallagher, K. (2021) A note on Elizabeth Isabella Spence and her Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland. Burns Chronicle, 130(2), pp. 210-214. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2021.0024)

Carruthers, G. (2021) The Wodrow–Kenrick Correspondence 1750–1810 Volume 1: 1750–1783, edited by Martin Fitzpatrick, Emma Macleod, and Anthony Page. Burns Chronicle, 130(2), pp. 225-228. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2021.0027)[Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2021) 'Owners of the Soil' exhibition of work by Will Maclean and Shaun Fraser at the Edinburgh Fine Art Society [Booklet Essay]. [Exhibitions]

Carruthers, G. (2021) Who really wrote the epigram on Edmund Burke attributed to Robert Burns? Burns Chronicle, 130(1), pp. 111-114. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2021.0012)

Brown, I. and Carruthers, G. (Eds.) (2021) Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the ‘National Bard’. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474457149

Brown, I. and Carruthers, G. (2021) The performance of Burns. In: Brown, Ian and Carruthers, Gerard (eds.) Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the ‘National Bard’. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781474457149

Burnett, J. and Carruthers, G. (2021) Performance and print in editions of Robert Burns in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In: Brown, Ian and Carruthers, Gerard (eds.) Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the ‘National Bard’. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 13-29. ISBN 9781474457149

2020

Dunnigan, S. and Carruthers, G. (2020) Scottish Neo-medievalism. In: Parker, Joanne and Wagner, Corinna (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 235-248. ISBN 9780199669509 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669509.013.15)

Carruthers, G. (2020) Losing his religion: the neglected Catholicism of A J Cronin. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45(2), pp. 42-46.

2019

Carruthers, G. (2019) W.S. Graham: ‘Born in a diamond screeched from a mountain pap’. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45(1), 4.

Carruthers, G. and MacLean, R. (2019) A new Janet Hamilton holograph manuscript discovered. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45(1), 8.

Carruthers, G. (2019) Responses to Peterloo in Scotland, 1819-1822. In: Demson, Michael and Hewitt, Regina (eds.) Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-making During the Romantic Era. Series: Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474428569

2018

Carruthers, G. (2018) William Angus McIlvanney [Obituary]. Burns Chronicle, 2017, pp. 139-141.

Newton, J., Ramage, G. , Gadegaard, N. , Zachs, W., Rogers, S. , Barrett, M. P. , Carruthers, G. and Burgess, K. (2018) Minimally-destructive atmospheric ionisation mass spectrometry authenticates authorship of historical manuscripts. Scientific Reports, 8, 10944. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-28810-2) (PMID:30050048) (PMCID:PMC6062563)

Hansen, M., Smith, D. J. and Carruthers, G. (2018) Mood disorder in the personal correspondence of Robert Burns: testing a novel inter-disciplinary approach. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 48(2), pp. 165-174. (doi: 10.4997/JRCPE.2018.212)

Carruthers, G. (2018) Revisiting Radical Renfrew and the Anthologising of Scotland’s Regions. [Website]

Carruthers, G. (2018) Jacobite Unionism. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Kidd, Colin (eds.) Literature and Union: Scottish Texts, British Contexts. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198736233 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198736233.003.0006)

Carruthers, G. (2018) Postscript: the strange death of literary Unionism. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Kidd, Colin (eds.) Literature and Union: Scottish Texts, British Contexts. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 349-362. ISBN 9780198736233 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198736233.003.0016)

Carruthers, G. and Kidd, C. (2018) Literature and Union: Scottish Texts, British Contexts. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198736233

Carruthers, G. (2018) Postscript: Varieties of cultural improvement in the long eighteenth century. In: Benchimol, Alex and Mckeever, Gerard (eds.) Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840. Routledge, pp. 233-237. ISBN 9781138482937

2017

Muller, T. and Carruthers, G. (2017) What ruefu' chance has twin'd ye o' your stately trees?: Historical maps and a poetic chronicle of Drumlanrig Woods. Scottish Local History, 98(Autumn), pp. 23-29.

Carruthers, G. (2017) Gender and the short story in the twilight years. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Kidd, Colin (eds.) The International Companion to John Galt. Series: International Companions (5). Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow, pp. 125-136. ISBN 9781908980274

Carruthers, G. (2017) Ironic mythology: reading the fictiveness of the cone-gatherers. In: Gifford, Douglas and Bicket, Linden (eds.) The Fiction of Robin Jenkins: Some Kind of Grace. Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature (26). Brill | Rodopi: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 37-50. ISBN 9789004337046 (doi: 10.1163/9789004342491_004)

Carruthers, G. and Smith, G. (2017) Alexander Wilson’s manuscript notebook: a Scottish poet in America, 1801-1803. Scottish Literary Review, 9(1), pp. 141-146.

Carruthers, G. (2017) The ‘nouveau frisson’: Muriel Spark’s gothic fiction. In: Davison, Carol Margaret and Germanà, Monica (eds.) Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Series: Edinburgh companions to the gothic. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 168-180. ISBN 9781474408196

Carruthers, G. (2017) Fraternal claims: the brotherhoods of Robert Burns. In: Müller, Klaus Peter, Schwittlinsky, Ilka and Walker, Ron (eds.) Inspiring Views from "a' the airts" on Scottish Literatures, Art & Cinema: The First World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Glasgow 2014. Series: Scottish studies international, 41. Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, pp. 139-152. ISBN 9783631705018

Carruthers, G. and Kidd, C. (Eds.) (2017) The International Companion to John Galt. Series: International companions. Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908980274

Carruthers, G. (2017) Alexander Wilson: the rise and fall and rise of a laboring-class writer. In: Goodridge, John and Keegan, Bridget (eds.) A History of British Working Class Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107190405 (doi: 10.1017/9781108105392)

Carruthers, G. (2017) Ghost writing: the work of Muriel Spark. Bottle Imp(22),

Carruthers, G. (2017) Introduction: new developments in Robert Burns bibliography. Studies in Scottish Literature, 43(2), pp. 301-302.

Carruthers, G. and Kidd, C. (2017) Introduction. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Kidd, Colin (eds.) The International Companion to John Galt. Series: International Companions. Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow, pp. 1-7. ISBN 9781908980274

2016

Carruthers, G. (2016) Thomas Muir and Kirk politics. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Martin, Don (eds.) Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the Twenty First Century. Humming Earth: Edinburgh, pp. 141-167. ISBN 9781846220517

Carruthers, G. (2016) Thomas Muir of Huntershill in memory, culture & literature. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Martin, Don (eds.) Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the Twenty First Century. Humming Earth: Edinburgh, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9781846220517

Carruthers, G. and Martin, D. (Eds.) (2016) Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the Twenty First Century. Humming Earth: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781846220517

Carruthers, G. and Kaur, S. (2016) Thomas Muir and staff and student politics at the University of Glasgow. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Martin, Don (eds.) Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the Twenty First Century. Humming Earth: Edinburgh, pp. 89-111. ISBN 9781846220517

Carruthers, G. (2016) Alexander Wilson, Scots poet. In: Burtt Jr., Edward H. (ed.) Alexander Wilson, Enlightened Naturalist. Series: Apercus historical texts cultures. Bucknell University Press: Lewsiburg, PA, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9781611487947

2015

Black, R. and Carruthers, G. (2015) The eighteenth century. In: Sassi, Carla (ed.) The International Companion to Scottish Poetry. Series: International companions to Scottish literature (3). Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow, pp. 54-63. ISBN 9781908980151

Carruthers, G. (2015) The Burns movement, the chair of Scottish history & literature at the University of Glasgow and the study of Scottish literature. Burns Chronicle, 2015, pp. 60-64.

Carruthers, G. (2015) The failure of historicism in Scottish literary studies: a case-study involving the Burns movement and the chair of Scottish history and literature at the University of Glasgow. In: Müller, Klaus Peter (ed.) Scotland 2014 and Beyond – Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence? Series: Scottish studies international - publications of the Scottish Studies Centre, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germersheim, 39. Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, pp. 287-300. ISBN 9783631655719

2014

Carruthers, G. (2014) Scotland, Britain and the elsewhere of poetry. In: Pollard, Natalie (ed.) Don Paterson: Contemporary Critical Essays. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 85-97. ISBN 9780748669417

2013

Carruthers, G. and Mackay, P. (2013) Re-reading James Currie: Robert Burns's first editor. John Clare Society Journal(32), pp. 73-84.

Carruthers, G. (2013) Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment ed. Thomas Ahnert & Susan Manning Palgrave, 2011. Bottle Imp(13), pp. 1-2. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. and Macdonald, C.M.M. (2013) Fictive pasts and past fictions. Scottish Historical Review, 92(1), pp. 137-166. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2013.0171)

Carruthers, G. (2013) Alternative religious spaces in the work of Robert Burns. Open House(225), pp. 5-6.

Carruthers, G. and Smith, G. (2013) Daylight Rabbery: The story of Antique Smith's Robert Burns forgeries. Drouth(44), pp. 10-15.

Purdie, D., McCue, K. and Carruthers, G. (Eds.) (2013) Maurice Lindsay's The Burns Encylopedia. Robert Hale: London, UK. ISBN 9780709091943

Brown, R. and Carruthers, G. (2013) Commemorating James Thomson, the seasons in Scotland, and Scots poetry. Studies in the Literary Imagination, 46(1), pp. 71-89. (doi: 10.1353/sli.2013.0000)

Carruthers, G. (2013) ‘Robert Burns’s interleaved Scots musical museum: a case-study in the vagaries of editors and owners. Essays and Studies(66), pp. 78-96.

Carruthers, G. and Mackay, P. (2013) The missing manuscript of Robert Burns's 'Patriarch' letter. Studies in Scottish Literature, 39(1), pp. 227-232.

Carruthers, G. (2013) Review of: Archibald Pitcairn, The Phanaticks edited by John MacQueen. Renaissance Quarterly, 66(3), pp. 1146-1148. (doi: 10.1086/673709)[Book Review]

2012

Carruthers, G. (2012) Scots wha hae. List(692), p. 42.

Carruthers, G. and McIlvanney, L. (Eds.) (2012) Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521762410

Carruthers, G. , Goldie, D. and Renfrew, A. (Eds.) (2012) Scotland and the Nineteenth Century World. Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature. Rodopi: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789042035621

Carruthers, G. (2012) Burns's political reputation in North America. In: Davis, L., Alker, S. and Nelson, H. (eds.) Robert Burns & Transatalantic Culture. Series: Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 87-98. ISBN 9781409405764

Carruthers, G. (2012) Rejecting inferiorisim and superiorism: normalizing Scottish literary studies in the twenty-first century. Studies in Scottish Literature, 38(1), pp. 13-19.

Carruthers, G. (2012) Remembering John Galt. In: Hewitt, R. (ed.) John Galt: Observations and Conjectures on Literature, History and Society. Bucknell University Press: Lewisburg, Md., pp. 33-52. ISBN 9781611484342

Carruthers, G. (2012) Review of: The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism. Byron Journal, 40(176), pp. 78-80. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2012) Robert Burns’s Scots Poetry Contemporari. In: Sergaent, D. and Stafford, F. (eds.) Burns & Other Poets. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 39-52. ISBN 9780748643578

Carruthers, G. (2012) Scottish literature in diaspora. In: Carruthers, G. and McIlvanney, L. (eds.) Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 275-288. ISBN 9780521762410

Carruthers, G. , Brown, I. and Purdie, D. (2012) Burns manuscripts at Floors Castle: an unpublished letter and an unpublished draft of the poem "On Seeing a Wounded Hare". Scottish Literary Review, 4(1), pp. 57-74.

Carruthers, G. (2012) Review of Murray Pittock (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism. Byron Journal, 40(1), pp. 78-80. (doi: 10.3828/bj.2012.8)[Book Review]

Carruthers, G. and McIlvanney, L. (2012) Introduction. In: Carruthers, G. and McIlvanney, L. (eds.) Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9780521762410

Goldie, D., Renfrew, A. and Carruthers, G. (2012) Introduction. In: Carruthers, G., Goldie, D. and Renfrew, A. (eds.) Scotland and the Nineteenth Century World. Rodopi: Amsterdam & New York, pp. 15-20. ISBN 9789042035621

2011

Carruthers, G. (2011) A letter from America. Open House, 215, pp. 17-18.

Carruthers, G. (2011) James Bridie. In: Brown, I. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 130-139. ISBN 9780748641086

Carruthers, G. (2011) Muriel Spark. In: Shaffer, B. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Vol. 1: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction. Series: Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of literature. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, pp. 352-355. ISBN 9781405192446

Carruthers, G. (2011) Robin Jenkins. In: Shaffer, B. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Vol. 1: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction. Series: Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of literature. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, pp. 196-198. ISBN 9781405192446

Carruthers, G. (2011) Fiona Stafford, Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry. Eighteenth-Century Scotland(25), pp. 18-19. [Book Review]

2010

Carruthers, G. (2010) Burns and the excise. Drouth, 34, pp. 69-73.

Carruthers, G. (2010) Fresh light on Robert Burns's Highland Mary. Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society Magazine, 2010, pp. 16-18.

Carruthers, G. (2010) Muriel Spark as Catholic novelist. In: Gardiner, M. and Maley, W. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 74-84. ISBN 9780748637683

Carruthers, G. (2010) The peculiar research of Patrick Scott Hogg. Robert Burns Lives(88),

Carruthers, G. (2010) Robert Burns and Ireland. International Journal of Scottish Literature(6),

Carruthers, G. , Levy, L., Reilly, H., Renfrew, J. and Wilson, M. (2010) Some recent discoveries in Robert Burns Studies. Scottish Literary Review, 2(1), pp. 143-158.

Carruthers, G. (2010) Sandro Jung, Anglo-Scot Poetry, Patronage and Politics in the Age of Union. Scottish Literary Review, pp. 145-147. [Book Review]

2009

Carruthers, G. (2009) Robert Burns, an Ecumenical poet. Catholic Herald, 2009(Nov.), p. 8.

Carruthers, G. (2009) A hidden influence of faith on Robert Burns. Scottish Catholic Observer, 2009(17/7), p. 14.

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2009) The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748636488

Rodger, J. and Carruthers, G. (Eds.) (2009) Fickle Man: Robert Burns in the 21st Century. Sandstone: Dingwall, UK. ISBN 9781905207275

Carruthers, G. and Gray, P.A. (Eds.) (2009) The Fornicators Court by Robert Burns. Abbotsford Library Project Trust & The Faculty of Advocates: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780956129109

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2009) Scottish Poems. Everyman's Library: New York, USA. ISBN 9780307269713

Carruthers, G. (2009) Robert Burns: an enlightened national treasure. In: Fessey, W. and McIntosh, S. (eds.) The New Scottish Enlightenment. Times Group: Southend on Sea, UK, pp. 23-27. ISBN http://viewer.zmags.com/htmlCat/index.php?mid=wtwhsp

Carruthers, G. (2009) Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends. By Ferenc Morton Szasz. Scottish Historical Review, 88(2), pp. 381-382. (doi: 10.3366/E0036924109001073)[Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2009) Burns and publishing. In: Carruthers, G. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Burns. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 6-19. ISBN 9780748636488

Carruthers, G. (2009) Did Robert Burns write "The Tree of Liberty"? In: Rodgers, J. and Carruthers, G. (eds.) Fickle Man: Robert Burns in the 21st Century. Sandstone, pp. 242-256. ISBN 9781905207275

Carruthers, G. (2009) Happy Birthday Robert Burns. Drouth, 30 'Pu, pp. 78-83.

Carruthers, G. (2009) Introduction. In: Carruthers, G. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 1-5. ISBN 978074863648

Carruthers, G. (2009) Introduction. In: Rodger, J. and Carruthers, G. (eds.) Fickle Man: Robert Burns in the 21st Century. Sandstone Press: Dingwall, UK, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781905207275

Carruthers, G. (2009) "Pour'd out extensive, and of watery wealth": Scotland in Thomson's The Seasons. In: MacLachlan, C.J.M. (ed.) Crossing the Highland Line: Cross-Currents in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Writing, Selected Papers from the 2005 ASLS Annual Conference. Series: Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) (14). Association for Scottish Literary Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9780948877889

Carruthers, G. (2009) Robert Burns and the excise. Drouth, 34, pp. 69-73.

Carruthers, G. (2009) Scottish Literature. Series: Edinburgh critical guides to literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748633081

Carruthers, G. and Gray, P.A. (2009) Introduction. In: Carruthers, G. and Gray, P.A. (eds.) The Fornicators Court by Robert Burns. Abbotsford Library Project Trust & The Faculty of Advocates: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 3-13. ISBN 9780956129109

Orr, J. and Carruthers, G. (2009) 'The deil's awa' wi' the exciseman' : Robert Burns the giver of guns to revolutionary France? In: Rodgers, Johnny and Carruthers, Gerard (eds.) Fickle Man: Robert Burns in the 21st Century. Sandstone: Dingwall, Ross-shire, pp. 257-266. ISBN 9781905207275

2008

Carruthers, G. (2008) The devil in Scotland. Bottle Imp, 3,

Carruthers, G. (2008) "Fully to savour her position": Muriel Spark and Scottish identity. Modern Fiction Studies, 54(3), pp. 487-504. (doi: 10.1353/mfs.0.1538)

Carruthers, G. (2008) Happy birthday Robert Burns. Drouth, 30,

2007

Carruthers, G. (2007) Alexander Geddes - a Scottish opponent of the slave trade. Open House, 176, pp. 3-4.

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2007) The Devil to Stage: Five Plays. Series: Association for Scottish Literary Studies. Association for Scottish Literary Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9780948877704

Brown, R.L. and Carruthers, G. (2007) Robert Fergusson and The gentleman and lady's weekly magazine. Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 21, pp. 10-13.

Carruthers, G. (2007) John Skinner: Collected Poems. Review of Scottish Culture, 19, pp. 139-141. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2007) Robert Burns and slavery. Drouth, 26, pp. 21-26.

Carruthers, G. (2007) Scottish-Irish connections 1707-1918. In: Brown, I. (ed.) The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748627608

Carruthers, G. (2007) "Tongues turn'd inside out": the reception of Tam o' Shanter. Studies in Scottish Literature, XXXV-X,

Carruthers, G. (2007) Where is Scotland? Drouth, 25,

2006

Carruthers, G. (2006) Revisionism in Irish & Scottish literature: how far can we go? English Subject Centre Newsletter, 10, pp. 8-10.

Carruthers, G. (2006) Robert Tannahill, Scottish poet after Burns. Renfrewshire Local History Forum, 13, pp. 21-30.

Carruthers, G. (2006) Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Possible Scotlands. Scotia, 30, pp. 55-57. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2006) The Canongate Burns: misreading Robert Burns and the periodical press of the 1790s. Review of Scottish Culture, 18,

Carruthers, G. (2006) Poetry beyond the English borders. In: Gerrard, C. (ed.) A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (44). Blackwell: Malden, USA, pp. 577-589. ISBN 9781405113168

Carruthers, G. (2006) The relativity of experience in William McIlvanney's The Kiln. In: McGonigal, J. and Stirling, K. (eds.) Ethically Speaking: Voice and Values in Modern Scottish Writing. Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature (6). Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9789042020849

2005

Brown, R.L. and Carruthers, G. (2005) John Mitchell's "A braid glow'r at the clergy". Burns Chronicle, Spring,

Carruthers, G. (2005) Fictions of belonging: national identity and the novel in Ireland and Scotland. In: Shaffer, B.W. (ed.) A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture. Blackwell: Malden, USA. ISBN 9781405113755

Carruthers, G. (2005) Jean Brodie: lass of pairts. Drouth, 16,

Carruthers, G. (2005) The problem of the Scottish enlightenment. Drouth, 15,

Carruthers, G. (2005) Robert Burns. Northcote House: Tavistock. ISBN 9780746311721

Carruthers, G. and Brown, R. (2005) John Mitchell's a braid glow'r at the clergy (1843). Burns Chronicle, 2005(Spring), pp. 37-40.

2004

Scott, W. (2004) Reliquiae Trotcosienses. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748620722

Carruthers, G., Goldie, D. and Renfrew, A. (Eds.) (2004) Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth Century Scottish Literature. Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature. Rodopi. ISBN 9789042018839

Carruthers, G. (2004) Alexander Geddes. In: Todd, R.B. (ed.) The Dictionary of British Classicists. Thoemmes Continuum: Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781855069978

Carruthers, G. (2004) Blair, Robert (1699-1746), poet. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 89-90. ISBN 9780198614111

Carruthers, G. (2004) Crawford, Robert (1695?-1732/3?), poet. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, p. 78. ISBN 9780198614111

Carruthers, G. (2004) "Creation festers in me": Calvinism and cosmopolitanism in Jenkins, Spark and Gray. In: Carruthers, G., Goldie, D. and Renfrew, A. (eds.) Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature. Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature (2). Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 167-184. ISBN 9789042018839

Carruthers, G. (2004) Geddes, Alexander (1737-1802), Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 688-691. ISBN 9780198614111

Carruthers, G. (2004) Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c.1665-1751), poet. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 918-919. ISBN 9780198614111

Carruthers, G. (2004) Lapraik, John (1727-1807), poet. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, p. 553. ISBN 9780198614111

Carruthers, G. (2004) Lauder, George (fl. 1622-1677), poet. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 670-671. ISBN 9780198614111

Carruthers, G. (2004) Lewis, Stuart (c.1756-1818), poet. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, p. 653. ISBN 9780198614111

Carruthers, G. (2004) MacDougall, Allan [called Ailean Dall] (1750?-1829), poet. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, p. 321. ISBN 9780198614111

Carruthers, G. (2004) Maxwell, James [pseud. Poet in Paisley] (1720-1800), poet and essayist. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, p. 505. ISBN 9780198614111

Carruthers, G. (2004) Problems with pseudonyms in the Burns "lost poems". Studies in Scottish Literature, XXXIII,

Carruthers, G. (2004) The return of Alexander Geddes. Drouth, 12,

Carruthers, G. (2004) Robert Burns's Epigram on Edmund Burke published in 'Politics for the People', October 1794. Studies in Scottish Literature, XXXIII,

Carruthers, G. (2004) Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae and The Ebb-Tide. Series: Scotnotes (18). Association for Scottish Literary Studies. ISBN 0948877561

Carruthers, G. (2004) Scattered remains: the literary career of Alexander Geddes. In: Johnstone, W. (ed.) The Bible and the Enlightenment: A Case Study, Dr. Alexander Geddes, 1737-1802: The Proceedings of the Bicentenary Geddes Conference Held at the University of Aberdeen, 1-4 April 2002. Series: Journal for the study of the Old Testament: supplement series (377). T & T Clark International: London, UK. ISBN 9780826466549

Carruthers, G. (2004) Scottish literature: second renaissance. In: Marcus, L. and Nicholls, P. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature. Series: The new Cambridge history of English literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 668-684. ISBN 9780521820776

Carruthers, G. (2004) Wilson, John (1720-1789), poet. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 590-591. ISBN 9780198614111

2003

Carruthers, G.C. and Rawes, A. (Eds.) (2003) English Romanticism and the Celtic World. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521810852

Carruthers, G. (2003) Treacherous Romance: Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. ParaGraphs: The Journal of the Neil Munro Society, 14, pp. 7-9.

Carruthers, G. (2003) Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the Scottish enlightenment. In: Palmer-McCulloch, M. and Dunnigan, S. (eds.) A Flame in the Mearns: Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Centenary Celebration. Series: Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) (13). Association for Scottish Literary Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9780948877544

Carruthers, G. (2003) Re-reading The new road. In: Renton, R. and Osborne, B.D. (eds.) Exploring New Roads: Essays on Neil Munro. House of Lochar: Colonsay, UK. ISBN 9781899863761

Carruthers, G. (2003) Remaking romantic Scotland: Lockhart's biographies of Burns and Scott. In: Bradley, A. and Rawes, A. (eds.) Romantic Biography. Ashgate: Aldershot, UK, pp. 93-108. ISBN 9780754609933

Carruthers, G. and Rawes, A. (2003) Romancing the Celt. In: Carruthers, G. and Rawes, A. (eds.) English Romanticism and the Celtic World. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9780521810852

2002

Cameron, A., Scullion, A.C. and Carruthers, G. (2002) James Bridie and the Scottish theatre. In: Gifford, D., Dunnigan, S. and MacGillivray, A. (eds.) Scottish Literature in English and Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 619-654. ISBN 9780748608256

Carruthers, G. (2002) The new bardolatry. Burns Chronicle, 2002(Winter), pp. 9-15.

Carruthers, G. (2002) Tobias Smollett: The expedition of Humphry Clinker. In: Gifford, D., Dunnigan, S. and MacGillivray, A. (eds.) Scottish Literature in English and Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 170-181. ISBN 9780748608256

Carruthers, G. (2002) The word on Burns. Drouth, 3,

Carruthers, G. and Whyte, C. (2002) Enlightenment and vernacular. In: Gifford, D., Dunnigan, S. and MacGillivray, A. (eds.) Scottish Literature in English and Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 105-118. ISBN 9780748608256

Carruthers, G. and Whyte, C. (2002) Widening the range 2. In: Gifford, D., Dunnigan, S. and MacGillivray, A. (eds.) Scottish Literature in English and Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 182-192. ISBN 9780748608256

2001

Carruthers, G. (2001) A manuscript fragment of an unsigned and undated draft letter by David Hume on the ossian controversy in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Notes and Queries, 48(4), p. 419. (doi: 10.1093/nq/48.4.419-a)

Carruthers, G. (2001) Beyond Jean Brodie. Ecloga, 1,

Carruthers, G. (2001) The procedure of life: Carswell's biography of Burns. In: Anderson, C. (ed.) Opening the Doors: The Achievement of Catherine Carswell. Ramsay Head Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781873921098

McMunigall, A. and Carruthers, G. (2001) Locating Kelman: Glasgow, Scotland and the commitment to place. Edinburgh Review, 108, pp. 56-68.

2000

Carruthers, G. (2000) James Thomson and eighteenth-century Scottish literary identity. In: Terry, R. (ed.) James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, pp. 165-190. ISBN 9780853239543

Carruthers, G. and Dunnigan, S. (2000) Two tales of Tam o'Shanter. Southfields, pp. 36-43.

1999

Carruthers, G. (1999) Alexander Geddes and the Burns "lost poems" controversy. Studies in Scottish Literature, 31, pp. 81-85.

Carruthers, G. (1999) The construction of the Scottish critical tradition. In: McMillan, N. and Stirling, K. (eds.) Odd Alliances: Scottish Studies in European Contexts. Cruithne Press: Glasgow, pp. 52-65. ISBN 1873448155

Carruthers, G. (1999) Form and substance in the poetry of the Castalian Band. Scottish Literary Journal, 26(2),

Carruthers, G. and Dunnigan, S. (1999) 'A reconfused chaos': Scottish poetry and nation from the medieval period to the eighteenth century. Edinburgh Review, 100, pp. 81-94.

1998

Carruthers, G. (1998) Culture 1707-1850. In: Cooke, A., Donnachie, I., MacSween, A. and Whatley, C.A. (eds.) Modern Scottish History : 1707 to the Present. Vol. 1, The Transformation of Scotland, 1707-1850. Tuckwell Press: East Linton, pp. 136-149. ISBN 1862320683

Carruthers, G. (1998) A note on poems newly attributed to Burns. Burns Chronicle, pp. 26-28.

1997

Carruthers, G. (1997) The remarkable fictions of Muriel Spark'. In: Gifford, D. and McMillan, D. (eds.) A History of Scottish Women's Writing. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 514-525. ISBN 9780748609161

Carruthers, G. (1997) Robert Burns and the Scottish Critical Tradition. In: Simpson, K.G. (ed.) Love and Liberty : Robert Burns : A Bicentenary Celebration. Tuckwell Press: East Linton, pp. 239-247. ISBN 1898410895

1996

Carruthers, G. and Carruthers, M. (1996) An unpublished letter from Walter Scott to Dr James Currie. Scott Newsletter, pp. 6-9.

1992

Carruthers, G. (1992) James Kelman. Post-War Literatures in English, 18, pp. 1-14.

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Articles

Carruthers, G. (2025) A selective history of Scottish Pen from 1950 to 1997. Studies in Scottish Literature, (Accepted for Publication)

Carruthers, G. (2024) ‘Ye Black-nebs a’ by Name’: a draft, cancelled autograph manuscript by Robert Burns. Burns Chronicle, (Accepted for Publication)

Carruthers, G. and Ingham, E. (2024) Robert Burns, Patrick Heron, and an annotated 1793 poems at Mount Stuart. Burns Chronicle, 133(1), pp. 82-91. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2024.0103)

Carruthers, G. (2023) Useless and useful: Catholic cultural experience of Scotland. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 7(3), pp. 15-30.

Carruthers, G. (2023) Paul Bishop and Robert Burns. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(3-4), pp. 359-362. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2199712)

Carruthers, G. and Mackay, P. (2023) A newly discovered manuscript: ‘Twa Neebor-Wives Upon a Time’. Burns Chronicle, 132(2), pp. 229-234. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2023.0089)

Scott, P. and Carruthers, G. (2022) Burns and the Altar of Independence: a question of authentication. Studies in Scottish Literature, 48(2), pp. 199-206. (doi: 10.51221/suc.ssl.2023.48.2.15)

Carruthers, G. and McLean, R. (2022) Did Burns send cannon to France in 1792? – a new theory of the narrative. Burns Chronicle, 131(2), pp. 139-155. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2022.0054)

Carruthers, G. (2021) Who really wrote the epigram on Edmund Burke attributed to Robert Burns? Burns Chronicle, 130(1), pp. 111-114. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2021.0012)

Carruthers, G. (2020) Losing his religion: the neglected Catholicism of A J Cronin. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45(2), pp. 42-46.

Carruthers, G. (2019) W.S. Graham: ‘Born in a diamond screeched from a mountain pap’. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45(1), 4.

Carruthers, G. and MacLean, R. (2019) A new Janet Hamilton holograph manuscript discovered. Studies in Scottish Literature, 45(1), 8.

Carruthers, G. (2018) William Angus McIlvanney [Obituary]. Burns Chronicle, 2017, pp. 139-141.

Carruthers, G. and Smith, G. (2017) Alexander Wilson’s manuscript notebook: a Scottish poet in America, 1801-1803. Scottish Literary Review, 9(1), pp. 141-146.

Carruthers, G. (2017) Ghost writing: the work of Muriel Spark. Bottle Imp(22),

Carruthers, G. (2017) Introduction: new developments in Robert Burns bibliography. Studies in Scottish Literature, 43(2), pp. 301-302.

Carruthers, G. (2015) The Burns movement, the chair of Scottish history & literature at the University of Glasgow and the study of Scottish literature. Burns Chronicle, 2015, pp. 60-64.

Carruthers, G. and Mackay, P. (2013) Re-reading James Currie: Robert Burns's first editor. John Clare Society Journal(32), pp. 73-84.

Carruthers, G. and Macdonald, C.M.M. (2013) Fictive pasts and past fictions. Scottish Historical Review, 92(1), pp. 137-166. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2013.0171)

Carruthers, G. (2013) Alternative religious spaces in the work of Robert Burns. Open House(225), pp. 5-6.

Carruthers, G. and Smith, G. (2013) Daylight Rabbery: The story of Antique Smith's Robert Burns forgeries. Drouth(44), pp. 10-15.

Brown, R. and Carruthers, G. (2013) Commemorating James Thomson, the seasons in Scotland, and Scots poetry. Studies in the Literary Imagination, 46(1), pp. 71-89. (doi: 10.1353/sli.2013.0000)

Carruthers, G. (2013) ‘Robert Burns’s interleaved Scots musical museum: a case-study in the vagaries of editors and owners. Essays and Studies(66), pp. 78-96.

Carruthers, G. and Mackay, P. (2013) The missing manuscript of Robert Burns's 'Patriarch' letter. Studies in Scottish Literature, 39(1), pp. 227-232.

Carruthers, G. (2012) Scots wha hae. List(692), p. 42.

Carruthers, G. (2012) Rejecting inferiorisim and superiorism: normalizing Scottish literary studies in the twenty-first century. Studies in Scottish Literature, 38(1), pp. 13-19.

Carruthers, G. (2011) A letter from America. Open House, 215, pp. 17-18.

Carruthers, G. (2010) Burns and the excise. Drouth, 34, pp. 69-73.

Carruthers, G. (2010) Fresh light on Robert Burns's Highland Mary. Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society Magazine, 2010, pp. 16-18.

Carruthers, G. (2010) The peculiar research of Patrick Scott Hogg. Robert Burns Lives(88),

Carruthers, G. (2010) Robert Burns and Ireland. International Journal of Scottish Literature(6),

Carruthers, G. , Levy, L., Reilly, H., Renfrew, J. and Wilson, M. (2010) Some recent discoveries in Robert Burns Studies. Scottish Literary Review, 2(1), pp. 143-158.

Carruthers, G. (2009) Robert Burns, an Ecumenical poet. Catholic Herald, 2009(Nov.), p. 8.

Carruthers, G. (2009) A hidden influence of faith on Robert Burns. Scottish Catholic Observer, 2009(17/7), p. 14.

Carruthers, G. (2009) Happy Birthday Robert Burns. Drouth, 30 'Pu, pp. 78-83.

Carruthers, G. (2009) Robert Burns and the excise. Drouth, 34, pp. 69-73.

Carruthers, G. (2008) The devil in Scotland. Bottle Imp, 3,

Carruthers, G. (2008) "Fully to savour her position": Muriel Spark and Scottish identity. Modern Fiction Studies, 54(3), pp. 487-504. (doi: 10.1353/mfs.0.1538)

Carruthers, G. (2008) Happy birthday Robert Burns. Drouth, 30,

Carruthers, G. (2007) Alexander Geddes - a Scottish opponent of the slave trade. Open House, 176, pp. 3-4.

Brown, R.L. and Carruthers, G. (2007) Robert Fergusson and The gentleman and lady's weekly magazine. Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 21, pp. 10-13.

Carruthers, G. (2007) Robert Burns and slavery. Drouth, 26, pp. 21-26.

Carruthers, G. (2007) "Tongues turn'd inside out": the reception of Tam o' Shanter. Studies in Scottish Literature, XXXV-X,

Carruthers, G. (2007) Where is Scotland? Drouth, 25,

Carruthers, G. (2006) Revisionism in Irish & Scottish literature: how far can we go? English Subject Centre Newsletter, 10, pp. 8-10.

Carruthers, G. (2006) Robert Tannahill, Scottish poet after Burns. Renfrewshire Local History Forum, 13, pp. 21-30.

Carruthers, G. (2006) The Canongate Burns: misreading Robert Burns and the periodical press of the 1790s. Review of Scottish Culture, 18,

Brown, R.L. and Carruthers, G. (2005) John Mitchell's "A braid glow'r at the clergy". Burns Chronicle, Spring,

Carruthers, G. (2005) Jean Brodie: lass of pairts. Drouth, 16,

Carruthers, G. (2005) The problem of the Scottish enlightenment. Drouth, 15,

Carruthers, G. and Brown, R. (2005) John Mitchell's a braid glow'r at the clergy (1843). Burns Chronicle, 2005(Spring), pp. 37-40.

Carruthers, G. (2004) Problems with pseudonyms in the Burns "lost poems". Studies in Scottish Literature, XXXIII,

Carruthers, G. (2004) The return of Alexander Geddes. Drouth, 12,

Carruthers, G. (2004) Robert Burns's Epigram on Edmund Burke published in 'Politics for the People', October 1794. Studies in Scottish Literature, XXXIII,

Carruthers, G. (2003) Treacherous Romance: Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. ParaGraphs: The Journal of the Neil Munro Society, 14, pp. 7-9.

Carruthers, G. (2002) The new bardolatry. Burns Chronicle, 2002(Winter), pp. 9-15.

Carruthers, G. (2002) The word on Burns. Drouth, 3,

Carruthers, G. (2001) Beyond Jean Brodie. Ecloga, 1,

McMunigall, A. and Carruthers, G. (2001) Locating Kelman: Glasgow, Scotland and the commitment to place. Edinburgh Review, 108, pp. 56-68.

Carruthers, G. and Dunnigan, S. (2000) Two tales of Tam o'Shanter. Southfields, pp. 36-43.

Carruthers, G. (1999) Alexander Geddes and the Burns "lost poems" controversy. Studies in Scottish Literature, 31, pp. 81-85.

Carruthers, G. (1999) Form and substance in the poetry of the Castalian Band. Scottish Literary Journal, 26(2),

Carruthers, G. and Dunnigan, S. (1999) 'A reconfused chaos': Scottish poetry and nation from the medieval period to the eighteenth century. Edinburgh Review, 100, pp. 81-94.

Carruthers, G. (1998) A note on poems newly attributed to Burns. Burns Chronicle, pp. 26-28.

Carruthers, G. and Carruthers, M. (1996) An unpublished letter from Walter Scott to Dr James Currie. Scott Newsletter, pp. 6-9.

Carruthers, G. (1992) James Kelman. Post-War Literatures in English, 18, pp. 1-14.

Books

Carruthers, G. (2009) Scottish Literature. Series: Edinburgh critical guides to literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748633081

Carruthers, G. (2005) Robert Burns. Northcote House: Tavistock. ISBN 9780746311721

Book Sections

Carruthers, G. (2012) Robert Burns’s Scots Poetry Contemporari. In: Sergaent, D. and Stafford, F. (eds.) Burns & Other Poets. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 39-52. ISBN 9780748643578

Carruthers, G. (2011) James Bridie. In: Brown, I. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 130-139. ISBN 9780748641086

Carruthers, G. (2010) Muriel Spark as Catholic novelist. In: Gardiner, M. and Maley, W. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 74-84. ISBN 9780748637683

Carruthers, G. (2009) Introduction. In: Rodger, J. and Carruthers, G. (eds.) Fickle Man: Robert Burns in the 21st Century. Sandstone Press: Dingwall, UK, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781905207275

Carruthers, G. (2007) Scottish-Irish connections 1707-1918. In: Brown, I. (ed.) The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748627608

Carruthers, G. (2004) Alexander Geddes. In: Todd, R.B. (ed.) The Dictionary of British Classicists. Thoemmes Continuum: Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781855069978

Carruthers, G. (2003) Re-reading The new road. In: Renton, R. and Osborne, B.D. (eds.) Exploring New Roads: Essays on Neil Munro. House of Lochar: Colonsay, UK. ISBN 9781899863761

Book Reviews

Carruthers, G. (2023) Davis and Sorenson, eds. The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century. Eighteenth-Century Studies, [Book Review] (In Press)

Carruthers, G. (2021) Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel by Nicole Mansfield Wright. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 34(1), pp. 114-116. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2013) Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment ed. Thomas Ahnert & Susan Manning Palgrave, 2011. Bottle Imp(13), pp. 1-2. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2013) Review of: Archibald Pitcairn, The Phanaticks edited by John MacQueen. Renaissance Quarterly, 66(3), pp. 1146-1148. (doi: 10.1086/673709)[Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2012) Review of: The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism. Byron Journal, 40(176), pp. 78-80. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2012) Review of Murray Pittock (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism. Byron Journal, 40(1), pp. 78-80. (doi: 10.3828/bj.2012.8)[Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2011) Fiona Stafford, Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry. Eighteenth-Century Scotland(25), pp. 18-19. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2010) Sandro Jung, Anglo-Scot Poetry, Patronage and Politics in the Age of Union. Scottish Literary Review, pp. 145-147. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2007) John Skinner: Collected Poems. Review of Scottish Culture, 19, pp. 139-141. [Book Review]

Carruthers, G. (2006) Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Possible Scotlands. Scotia, 30, pp. 55-57. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2024) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198846246 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2024) A Companion to Scottish Literature. Wiley-Blackwell: Hoboken NJ & Chichester. ISBN 9781119651444

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2023) Scottish Stories. Series: Everyman Classics. Everyman's Library: London. ISBN 9780593536285 (In Press)

Carruthers, G. , Gallagher, K. T., Lamont, C. and Smith, G. (Eds.) (2022) 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910900833

Brown, I. and Carruthers, G. (Eds.) (2021) Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the ‘National Bard’. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474457149

Carruthers, G. and Kidd, C. (2018) Literature and Union: Scottish Texts, British Contexts. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198736233

Carruthers, G. and Kidd, C. (Eds.) (2017) The International Companion to John Galt. Series: International companions. Association for Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908980274

Carruthers, G. and Martin, D. (Eds.) (2016) Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the Twenty First Century. Humming Earth: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781846220517

Purdie, D., McCue, K. and Carruthers, G. (Eds.) (2013) Maurice Lindsay's The Burns Encylopedia. Robert Hale: London, UK. ISBN 9780709091943

Carruthers, G. and McIlvanney, L. (Eds.) (2012) Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521762410

Carruthers, G. , Goldie, D. and Renfrew, A. (Eds.) (2012) Scotland and the Nineteenth Century World. Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature. Rodopi: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789042035621

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2009) The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748636488

Rodger, J. and Carruthers, G. (Eds.) (2009) Fickle Man: Robert Burns in the 21st Century. Sandstone: Dingwall, UK. ISBN 9781905207275

Carruthers, G. and Gray, P.A. (Eds.) (2009) The Fornicators Court by Robert Burns. Abbotsford Library Project Trust & The Faculty of Advocates: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780956129109

Carruthers, G. (Ed.) (2009) Scottish Poems. Everyman's Library: New York, USA. ISBN 9780307269713

Scott, W. (2004) Reliquiae Trotcosienses. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748620722

Carruthers, G.C. and Rawes, A. (Eds.) (2003) English Romanticism and the Celtic World. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521810852

Exhibitions

Carruthers, G. (2021) 'Owners of the Soil' exhibition of work by Will Maclean and Shaun Fraser at the Edinburgh Fine Art Society [Booklet Essay]. [Exhibitions]

Audio

Carruthers, G. (2022) One Night in Paisley, 1822 [Film]. [Audio]

Website

Carruthers, G. (2024) Robert Burns: How the Man became Myth. [Website]

Carruthers, G. (2023) Robert Burns. [Website]

Carruthers, G. (2018) Revisiting Radical Renfrew and the Anthologising of Scotland’s Regions. [Website]

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Grants

The People's Voice: Scottish Political Poetry, Song and the Franchise, 1832-1918 Carnegie Trust funded project, 2016-2018.

[Co-I] with Dr Catriona Macdonald, History [PI] and Prof Kirstie Blair, Strathclyde [Co-I]: a series of workshops, forthcoming web resources, other publications & symposia from 2014, part-funded by the Chancellor's Fund & a major https://thepeoplesvoice.glasgow.ac.uk/

Literature and Union (with Professor Colin Kidd, Univ of St Andrews), Carnegie Trust funded project, 2014-17.

Outputs:

Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century: Prose and Song (PI; CIs: Nigel Leask, Kirsteen McCue, Murray Pittock), 2011-16

Towards the Oxford University Press Edition of the Works of Robert Burns (General Editor: Gerard Carruthers) -

The Correspondence of James Currie, an online edition of the letters of Burns's first editor, Carnegie Trust funded project, 2006-10, edited by Gerard Carruthers & Kenneth G. Simpson; Associate Editor, Pauline Mackay

Online edition

Supervision

I have successfully supervised PhD dissertations on:

Scottish Enlightenment Rhetoric
Robert Fergusson
Robert Burns (2)
James Orr
Samuel Thomson
Robert Tannahill
Thomas Carlyle
Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson
Muriel Spark
Seamus Heaney
Alasdair Gray
the Modern Scottish Republic of Letters

MLitt dissertations on:

the language of sentiment
Scottish Literature and Medicine

MPhil theses:

Robert Burns
Blackwood's Magazine & Gothic Fiction
Thomas Carlyle
Muriel Spark
'Bunkermen & Lasses o' Pairts: Contemporary Scottish Fiction'
'Utopian and Dystopian Landscapes in Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature'.

Current Supervision of work on Burns & the Environment, Burns & the Hispanic World, Burns & Freemasonry, John Leyden & Walter Scott.

Watson, John
Literature and the Scottish Landscape: the Textual Phenomenology of Place

Teaching

I teach on a range of courses including:

Crime Writing in Scotland (Hons)
Robert Burns (Hons)
Scottish Literature: Theory & Criticism (Hons)
Textual Editing (Hons)
Scottish Writers (Muriel Spark) [Hons]
The Short Story in Scotland (Hons)
Memorialising Scottish Culture and Literature (Hons)
Level 1 Scottish Literature
Level 2 Scottish Literature

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I was external examiner for the Postgraduate taught courses in English Literature (2011-12) and the MA course in English Studies, University of Aberdeen (2007-11) and the BA course in Cultural Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands (2001-6). 2013-17 I was UofG representative & Chair, Panel D, Scottish Graduate School for the Arts & Humanities, under the aegis of the AHRC [bought out 20 per cent of my time for this role].

Current Subject Role: Postgraduate Convenor for Scottish Literature

University roles

Civis Hub representative: Heritage, Culture & Society
Research Ambassador, University Research Beacons & part of College of Arts Research Hub group

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