Professor Rhona Brown

  • Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures (Scottish Literature)

telephone: 01413308529
email: Rhona.Brown@glasgow.ac.uk

R405 Level 4, Scottish Literature, 7 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227

Biography

Rhona Brown is a graduate of Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities. Her PhD, entitled '"For what use was I made, I wonder?": The Construction and Revision of Robert Fergusson in his Cultural Contexts', was completed in 2004. She joined Scottish Literature as a Lecturer in 2006, and teaches across the Scottish Literature undergraduate degree

Rhona's research specialism is in eighteenth-century Scots language poetry, the history of the Scottish periodical press and textual editing. Her first monograph, Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press, was published in 2012, and she has published widely on the work of Fergusson, Allan Ramsay and Robert Burns, as well as eighteenth-century journalism, the development of the periodical press, eighteenth-century clubs, societies and networks, and eighteenth-century Scottish literary culture in general.

In 2023, Rhona completed two major textual editing projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. As Co-Investigator of 'The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay' (PI Murray Pittock), she is editor of Ramsay's Poems (2 volumes, published in 2023) and co-editor (with Craig Lamont) of Ramsay's Prose (2024), published by Edinburgh University Press. She was also Co-Investigator of 'Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century: Poetry and Correspondence' (PI Gerard Carruthers), where she is co-editor of three volumes of Burns's letters (forthcoming). She has also produced an online edition of The Edinburgh Gazetteer, a radical Scottish newspaper of the 1790s. In 2023, Rhona was awarded Leverhulme Trust funding for a project entitled 'The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies'. The project will produce a new textual edition of the works of Robert Fergusson (1750-74), to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2026, and commemorate the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's death via collaborations and events throughout 2024.

Rhona has held various roles in key organisations in Scottish literary studies, including the Association for Scottish Literature, the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures and the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature. She is currently co-editor (with Scott Lyall, Edinburgh Napier University) of Scottish Literary Review and is a Series Editor for the Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature series, published by Brill. In 2022, Rhona was appointed to the first Editorial Board for the new Scottish Universities Press, an Open Access publishing platform owned by a consortium of Scottish Higher Education Institutions. In 2023, she became Vice Chair of SUP's Editorial Board. Rhona is a member of the Discipline+ Catalyst for Literature in the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities. She completed the Aurora Programme for women in Higher Education leadership in 2015, and was the recipient of a University of Glasgow Teaching Excellence Award in 2012. Rhona is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Research interests

Research interests

  • Eighteenth-century Scottish literature
  • The eighteenth-century Scottish periodical press
  • Textual Editing
  • Eighteenth-century Scottish poetry, journalism and politics
  • Scottish club culture in the eighteenth century
  • Eighteenth-century Scottish literary networks
  • Scottish Romanticism
  • Allan Ramsay
  • Robert Fergusson
  • Robert Burns  

Research groups

  • Romanticism/18th Century
  • Scots & English in Scotland

Publications

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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]

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2024) The battle for memory: the reception of Mary, Queen of Scots in the eighteenth-century British periodical press. In: Reid, Steven J. (ed.) The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 142-160. ISBN 978399523530

Brown, Rhona and Lamont, Craig(Eds.) (2024) The Prose of Allan Ramsay. [Scholarly Editions]

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2024) Burns biography, 1786-1800. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press, pp. 551-565. ISBN 9780198846246

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2024) Publishing in Scotland to 1800. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) Wiley Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature. Wiley Blackwell: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 180-191. ISBN 9781119651444 (doi: 10.1002/9781119651550.ch15)

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]

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227, Mackay, Pauline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4585-3432 and Young, Ronnie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1345-8187 (2024) Formalising feeling: Robert Burns's punctuation. In: Bonapfel, Elizabeth M., Faulkner, Mark, Gutierrez, Jeffrey and Lennard, John (eds.) A History of Punctuation in English Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Brown, Rhona(Ed.) (2023) Poems of Allan Ramsay. [Scholarly Editions]

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2023) The Scottish Press. In: Brownlees, Nicholas (ed.) The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation 1640–1800. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474499170

2022

Brown, Rhona(Ed.) (2022) The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson. [Scholarly Editions] (Accepted for Publication)

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2022) 1820 in contemporary press account. 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. 55-73. ISBN 9781910900833

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2022) James Currie and John Ramsay of Ochtertyre: new manuscripts. Burns Chronicle, 131(2), pp. 217-224. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2022.0059)

Editors:, Pittock, Murray ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1567-998X, Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227, McGuinness, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8544-6164, Newman, Steven, Szechi, Daniel, Lamont, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1803-4239, Robertson-Kirkland, Brianna E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1482-3721 and Caudle, James J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6053-8836 (2022) Collected Works of Allan Ramsay. [Website]

2021

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2021) Robert Burns on the twentieth-century stage. In: Brown, Ian and Carruthers, Gerard (eds.) Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the ‘National Bard’. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 120-136. ISBN 9781474457149

2020

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2020) "The Bohemian Club": a study of Edinburgh's Cape Club. In: Wallace, Mark C. and Rendall, Jane (eds.) Association and Enlightenment: Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830. Series: Studies in eighteenth-century Scotland. Bucknell University Press: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. ISBN 9781684482672

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2020) Networks of sociability in Allan Ramsay's The Fair Assembly. Studies in Scottish Literature, 46(2), pp. 22-39.

2019

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2019) Educating the female child: debates from the Scottish periodical press in Enlightenment Scotland, 1750–1800. In: Dunnigan, Sarah and Lai, Shu-Fang (eds.) The Land of Story-Books: Scottish Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century. Series: Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) (23). Scottish Literature International: Glasgow, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9781908980298

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2019) Self-curation, self-editing and audience construction by eighteenth-century Scots vernacular poets. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 42(2), pp. 157-174. (doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12605)

2018

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2018) Elizabeth Scot, nee Rutherford (1729-89). In: Ewan, Elizabeth, Pipes, Rose, Rendall, Jane and Reynolds, Sian (eds.) The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: Second Edition. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474436274

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2018) The afterlives of Allan Ramsay in the British Periodical Press, 1720-1870. Scottish Literary Review, 10(1), pp. 95-115.

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2018) Scotland, Britain, Europe: parallels with Eighteenth-Century political debate. Scottish Affairs, 27(1), pp. 54-62. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0223)

2017

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2017) The Edinburgh Gazetteer: Radical Networks and Journalism in 1790s Scotland. [Website]

2016

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2016) Thomas Muir and the Edinburgh gazetteer: reporting on the 'friend of the people' before and after his trial. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Martin, Don (eds.) Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the Twenty-First Century. Humming Earth: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781846220517

2015

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2015) Literary communities and commemorations in the Edinburgh Cape Club. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 38(4), pp. 525-539. 12348. (doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12348)

Benchimol, Alex ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5948-0086, Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Shuttleton, David (Eds.) (2015) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: Enlightenment World. Pickering and Chatto: London. ISBN 9781848935501

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2015) Wilkes and Scottish liberty: the reception of John Wilkes in the Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement. In: Benchimol, Alex, Brown, Rhona and Shuttleton, David (eds.) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: Enlightenment World. Pickering and Chatto: London. ISBN 9781848935501

Benchimol, Alex ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5948-0086, Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Shuttleton, David (2015) Introduction. In: Benchimol, Alex, Brown, Rhona and Shuttleton, David (eds.) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: Enlightenment world (29). Pickering and Chatto: London, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781848935501

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2015) 'Beshrew the sombre pencil!": Robert Fergusson (1750-74) and sensibility in Scotland. In: Thompson, Peggy (ed.) Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation and Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth. Bucknell University Press. ISBN 9781611486407

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2015) 'Rebellious Highlanders': the reception of Corsica in the Edinburgh periodical press, 1730-1800. Studies in Scottish Literature, 41(1), pp. 108-128.

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2015) Robert Fergusson. In: Day, Gary H. and Lynch, Jack (eds.) The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789. Wiley-Blackwell: London. ISBN 9781444330205

2014

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2014) The long-lost James Beattie: the (re)discovery of "The Grotesquiad". Review of English Studies, 65(270), pp. 456-473. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgt086)

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2014) Memorialising the death and legacy of Robert Fergusson: romantic sympathy and enlightened medical improvement. Bottle Imp, 15,

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2014) The construction of Robert Fergusson's illness and death. In: Coyer, Megan J. and Shuttleton, David E. (eds.) Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832. Series: Clio medica: perspectives in medical humanities (94). Rodopi: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789042038912

2013

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2013) 'A Tale of Two Britons'. Scotsman,

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Buntin, Melanie (2013) Family resemblance: a dialogue between father and son. In: Campbell, Mungo and Dulau, Anne (eds.) Allan Ramsay: Portraits of the Enlightenment. Prestel: Munich, pp. 51-65. ISBN 9783791348780

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Carruthers, Gerard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7188-9797 (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)

2012

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2012) Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson. In: Hadfield, A. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature. Oxford University Press: New York.

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2012) Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns. In: Stafford, F. and Sergeant, D. (eds.) Burns and Other Poets. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 23-38. ISBN 9780748643578

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2012) "The Cape still flourishes anon": A new Club poem by Robert Fergusson. Review of Scottish Culture, 24, pp. 110-125.

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2012) Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press. Ashgate: Farnham, UK. ISBN 9781409420231

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2012) Twentieth-century poetry. In: Norquay, G. (ed.) Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 140-151. ISBN 9780748644315

Brown, R. (2012) 'Guid black prent': Robert Burns and the contemporary Scottish and American periodical press. In: Alker, S., Davis, L. and Nelson, H.F. (eds.) Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture. Series: Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies. Ashgate. ISBN 9781409405764

2011

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2011) Twentieth-Century Burns Scholars: Thomas Crawford. Burns Chronicle, 2011, pp. 9-12.

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2011) James Beattie's 'The Grotesquiad': a major literary find at Abbotsford library. Times Literary Supplement, 9th Ju,

2010

Brown, R.L. (2010) The biographical construction of Robert Fergusson, 1774-1900. Drouth, 34, pp. 53-63.

2009

Brown, R.L. (2009) Robert Burns and Robert Ferguson. In: Carruthers, G. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748636488

Brown, R.L. and McCue, K.C. (2009) Burns 'The outré being' and 'The beautiful nymph of Ballochmyle'. In: Rodgers, J. and Carruthers, G. (eds.) Fickle Man : Robert Burns in the 21st Century. Sandstone: Dingwall, pp. 215-233. ISBN 9781905207275

2007

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

2006

Brown, R.L. (2006) Brothers in misfortune: Robert Fergusson and Thomas Chatterton. Thomas Chatteton Newsletter, 3,

Brown, R.L. (2006) Forging Yorick: constructions and counterfeits of Laurence Sterne in the Scottish Periodical Press. Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted to Laurence Sterne and his Works, 17, pp. 93-106.

2005

Brown, R.L. (2005) The city poetry of Robert Fergusson and Robert Hogg. Studies in Hogg and His World, 16, pp. 36-52.

Brown, R.L. (2005) Making Robert Burns: the unpublished correspondence of James Currie. Burns Chronicle, Winter, pp. 4-9.

Brown, R.L. (2005) Reconstructing the Ettrick Shepherd: James Hogg and his work in the twenty-first century. SCOTIA: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies, 29, pp. 26-44.

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

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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.

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2022) James Currie and John Ramsay of Ochtertyre: new manuscripts. Burns Chronicle, 131(2), pp. 217-224. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2022.0059)

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2020) Networks of sociability in Allan Ramsay's The Fair Assembly. Studies in Scottish Literature, 46(2), pp. 22-39.

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2019) Self-curation, self-editing and audience construction by eighteenth-century Scots vernacular poets. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 42(2), pp. 157-174. (doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12605)

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2018) The afterlives of Allan Ramsay in the British Periodical Press, 1720-1870. Scottish Literary Review, 10(1), pp. 95-115.

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2018) Scotland, Britain, Europe: parallels with Eighteenth-Century political debate. Scottish Affairs, 27(1), pp. 54-62. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0223)

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2015) Literary communities and commemorations in the Edinburgh Cape Club. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 38(4), pp. 525-539. 12348. (doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12348)

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2015) 'Rebellious Highlanders': the reception of Corsica in the Edinburgh periodical press, 1730-1800. Studies in Scottish Literature, 41(1), pp. 108-128.

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2014) The long-lost James Beattie: the (re)discovery of "The Grotesquiad". Review of English Studies, 65(270), pp. 456-473. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgt086)

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2014) Memorialising the death and legacy of Robert Fergusson: romantic sympathy and enlightened medical improvement. Bottle Imp, 15,

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2013) 'A Tale of Two Britons'. Scotsman,

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Carruthers, Gerard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7188-9797 (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)

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2012) "The Cape still flourishes anon": A new Club poem by Robert Fergusson. Review of Scottish Culture, 24, pp. 110-125.

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2011) Twentieth-Century Burns Scholars: Thomas Crawford. Burns Chronicle, 2011, pp. 9-12.

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2011) James Beattie's 'The Grotesquiad': a major literary find at Abbotsford library. Times Literary Supplement, 9th Ju,

Brown, R.L. (2010) The biographical construction of Robert Fergusson, 1774-1900. Drouth, 34, pp. 53-63.

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

Brown, R.L. (2006) Brothers in misfortune: Robert Fergusson and Thomas Chatterton. Thomas Chatteton Newsletter, 3,

Brown, R.L. (2006) Forging Yorick: constructions and counterfeits of Laurence Sterne in the Scottish Periodical Press. Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted to Laurence Sterne and his Works, 17, pp. 93-106.

Brown, R.L. (2005) The city poetry of Robert Fergusson and Robert Hogg. Studies in Hogg and His World, 16, pp. 36-52.

Brown, R.L. (2005) Making Robert Burns: the unpublished correspondence of James Currie. Burns Chronicle, Winter, pp. 4-9.

Brown, R.L. (2005) Reconstructing the Ettrick Shepherd: James Hogg and his work in the twenty-first century. SCOTIA: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies, 29, pp. 26-44.

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

Books

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2012) Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press. Ashgate: Farnham, UK. ISBN 9781409420231

Book Sections

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2024) The battle for memory: the reception of Mary, Queen of Scots in the eighteenth-century British periodical press. In: Reid, Steven J. (ed.) The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 142-160. ISBN 978399523530

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2024) Burns biography, 1786-1800. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press, pp. 551-565. ISBN 9780198846246

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2024) Publishing in Scotland to 1800. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) Wiley Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature. Wiley Blackwell: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 180-191. ISBN 9781119651444 (doi: 10.1002/9781119651550.ch15)

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227, Mackay, Pauline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4585-3432 and Young, Ronnie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1345-8187 (2024) Formalising feeling: Robert Burns's punctuation. In: Bonapfel, Elizabeth M., Faulkner, Mark, Gutierrez, Jeffrey and Lennard, John (eds.) A History of Punctuation in English Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (Accepted for Publication)

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2023) The Scottish Press. In: Brownlees, Nicholas (ed.) The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation 1640–1800. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474499170

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2022) 1820 in contemporary press account. 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. 55-73. ISBN 9781910900833

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2021) Robert Burns on the twentieth-century stage. In: Brown, Ian and Carruthers, Gerard (eds.) Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the ‘National Bard’. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 120-136. ISBN 9781474457149

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2020) "The Bohemian Club": a study of Edinburgh's Cape Club. In: Wallace, Mark C. and Rendall, Jane (eds.) Association and Enlightenment: Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830. Series: Studies in eighteenth-century Scotland. Bucknell University Press: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. ISBN 9781684482672

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2019) Educating the female child: debates from the Scottish periodical press in Enlightenment Scotland, 1750–1800. In: Dunnigan, Sarah and Lai, Shu-Fang (eds.) The Land of Story-Books: Scottish Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century. Series: Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) (23). Scottish Literature International: Glasgow, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9781908980298

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2018) Elizabeth Scot, nee Rutherford (1729-89). In: Ewan, Elizabeth, Pipes, Rose, Rendall, Jane and Reynolds, Sian (eds.) The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: Second Edition. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474436274

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2016) Thomas Muir and the Edinburgh gazetteer: reporting on the 'friend of the people' before and after his trial. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Martin, Don (eds.) Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the Twenty-First Century. Humming Earth: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781846220517

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2015) Wilkes and Scottish liberty: the reception of John Wilkes in the Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement. In: Benchimol, Alex, Brown, Rhona and Shuttleton, David (eds.) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: Enlightenment World. Pickering and Chatto: London. ISBN 9781848935501

Benchimol, Alex ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5948-0086, Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Shuttleton, David (2015) Introduction. In: Benchimol, Alex, Brown, Rhona and Shuttleton, David (eds.) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: Enlightenment world (29). Pickering and Chatto: London, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781848935501

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2015) 'Beshrew the sombre pencil!": Robert Fergusson (1750-74) and sensibility in Scotland. In: Thompson, Peggy (ed.) Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation and Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth. Bucknell University Press. ISBN 9781611486407

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2015) Robert Fergusson. In: Day, Gary H. and Lynch, Jack (eds.) The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789. Wiley-Blackwell: London. ISBN 9781444330205

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2014) The construction of Robert Fergusson's illness and death. In: Coyer, Megan J. and Shuttleton, David E. (eds.) Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832. Series: Clio medica: perspectives in medical humanities (94). Rodopi: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789042038912

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Buntin, Melanie (2013) Family resemblance: a dialogue between father and son. In: Campbell, Mungo and Dulau, Anne (eds.) Allan Ramsay: Portraits of the Enlightenment. Prestel: Munich, pp. 51-65. ISBN 9783791348780

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2012) Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson. In: Hadfield, A. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature. Oxford University Press: New York.

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2012) Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns. In: Stafford, F. and Sergeant, D. (eds.) Burns and Other Poets. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 23-38. ISBN 9780748643578

Brown, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2012) Twentieth-century poetry. In: Norquay, G. (ed.) Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 140-151. ISBN 9780748644315

Brown, R. (2012) 'Guid black prent': Robert Burns and the contemporary Scottish and American periodical press. In: Alker, S., Davis, L. and Nelson, H.F. (eds.) Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture. Series: Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies. Ashgate. ISBN 9781409405764

Brown, R.L. (2009) Robert Burns and Robert Ferguson. In: Carruthers, G. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748636488

Brown, R.L. and McCue, K.C. (2009) Burns 'The outré being' and 'The beautiful nymph of Ballochmyle'. In: Rodgers, J. and Carruthers, G. (eds.) Fickle Man : Robert Burns in the 21st Century. Sandstone: Dingwall, pp. 215-233. ISBN 9781905207275

Edited Books

Benchimol, Alex ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5948-0086, Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 and Shuttleton, David (Eds.) (2015) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: Enlightenment World. Pickering and Chatto: London. ISBN 9781848935501

Scholarly Editions

Brown, Rhona and Lamont, Craig(Eds.) (2024) The Prose of Allan Ramsay. [Scholarly Editions]

Brown, Rhona(Ed.) (2023) Poems of Allan Ramsay. [Scholarly Editions]

Brown, Rhona(Ed.) (2022) The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson. [Scholarly Editions] (Accepted for Publication)

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

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]

Editors:, Pittock, Murray ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1567-998X, Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227, McGuinness, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8544-6164, Newman, Steven, Szechi, Daniel, Lamont, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1803-4239, Robertson-Kirkland, Brianna E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1482-3721 and Caudle, James J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6053-8836 (2022) Collected Works of Allan Ramsay. [Website]

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-8227 (2017) The Edinburgh Gazetteer: Radical Networks and Journalism in 1790s Scotland. [Website]

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Grants

  • Principal Investigator, The Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies (Leverhulme Trust Project Grant, 2023-25)
  • Co-Investigator, Editing Robert Burns for the Twenty-First Century: Poetry and Correspondence (AHRC Major Research Grant, 2017-22; PI: Prof Gerard Carruthers)
  • Co-Investigator, The Edinburgh Allan Ramsay (AHRC Major Research Grant, 2018-23; PI: Prof Murray Pittock)
  • Principal Investigator, The Edinburgh Gazetteer: Radical Networks and Journalism in 1790s Scotland (Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2016-17)
  • Principal Investigator, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Authors and the Periodical Press, c.1720-c.1820 (Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, 2015-16)
  • Principal Investigator, Robert Fergusson and the Contemporary Periodical Press (Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, 2008-09)
  • Principal Investigator, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant (2006)

Supervision

Rhona has supervised MPhil and doctoral research on the work of Allan Ramsay, James Thomson, Thomas Carlyle, nineteenth-century Scottish women’s poetry, Ulster-Scots poetry, the work of Edwin Morgan, Liz Lochhead, Susan Ferrier, Mary Brunton, Catherine Cockburn Trotter, Edwin Muir, Mary Queen of Scots, Robert Burns and his contemporaries and studies of publisher and book history. 

She is available to supervise postgraduate research on the wide range of eighteenth-century Scottish poetry, its relationship with politics, the Scottish periodical press and Scottish literary networks in the long eighteenth century. She is also interested in supervising textual editing projects and new research on Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson (1750-74).

  • Hay, Emily
    Quenis awne hand’: the literary agency of Mary Queen of Scots in shaping her own public image, 1567-1587

Teaching

Convener:

  • Honours Scottish Literature
  • Memorialising Scottish Culture and Literature (Hons)
  • Popular Literary Enlightenment (Hons)

Lecturer:

  • Level 1 Scottish Literature
  • Level 2 Scottish Literature
  • Dissertation (Hons Scottish Literature)
  • Memorialising Scottish Culture and Literature (Hons Scottish Literature)
  • Popular Literary Enlightenment (Hons Scottish Literature)
  • Robert Burns (Hons Scottish Literature)
  • Robert Burns Online (Online and Distance Taught)
  • Robert Burns: Poems, Songs and Legacy (MOOC) - Online via FutureLearn
  • Scottish Journeys (Hons Scottish Literature)
  • Textual Editing (Hons Scottish Literature)

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