English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Owen Holland and Gerard McKeever In brief Date - 14 February 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeakers - Dr Owen Holland and Dr Gerard McKeever (University of Edinburgh)Chair - Dr Rebecca Tierney-Hynes (University of Edinburgh)Titles - 'James ‘B.V.’ Thomson and the Melancholy of Defeat' (Dr Holland) and 'Subversive Antiquarianism' (Dr McKeever) About the speakersOwen HollandOwen Holland is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature. He is the author of 'Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871' (Rutgers University Press, 2022) and 'William Morris’s Utopianism: Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration' (Palgrave, 2017). His articles have appeared in Textual Practice, ELH, Victorian Poetry, Utopian Studies, Key Words and elsewhere.He is a former editor of The Journal of William Morris Studies, and he published an edited selection of William Morris's political writings with Verso in 2020. Owen took up his lectureship at the University of Edinburgh in 2022, having previously taught at Jesus College in Oxford, University College London and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.Gerard McKeeverGerard McKeever is Lecturer in Modern Scottish Literature. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Glasgow, before spending two years as Research Assistant on the Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns (AHRC).He was then a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow between 2017 and 2020, working on a project titled 'Regional Romanticism: Dumfriesshire and Galloway, 1770–1830'. Subsequently, he was Research Fellow for two years on the AHRC-funded 'Books and Borrowing 1750–1830' project at the University of Stirling. He joined the University of Edinburgh in 2022.How to attendEach year, English and Scottish Literature hosts a variety of exciting research events featuring a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues.Events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is required.Are you interested in a PhD in English Literature?We offer two PhDs: one in English Literature; and one in Creative Writing. Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in all periods and genres of literature and literary analysis. Working with colleagues elsewhere in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) and across the wider University of Edinburgh, we are also able to support research which crosses further boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about PhD study in English Literature at Edinburgh Feb 14 2025 16.00 - 17.30 English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Owen Holland and Gerard McKeever An in-person seminar by Dr Owen Holland and Dr Gerard McKeever (University of Edinburgh), with respective titles of 'James ‘B.V.’ Thomson and the Melancholy of Defeat' and 'Subversive Antiquarianism'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Owen Holland and Gerard McKeever In brief Date - 14 February 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeakers - Dr Owen Holland and Dr Gerard McKeever (University of Edinburgh)Chair - Dr Rebecca Tierney-Hynes (University of Edinburgh)Titles - 'James ‘B.V.’ Thomson and the Melancholy of Defeat' (Dr Holland) and 'Subversive Antiquarianism' (Dr McKeever) About the speakersOwen HollandOwen Holland is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature. He is the author of 'Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871' (Rutgers University Press, 2022) and 'William Morris’s Utopianism: Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration' (Palgrave, 2017). His articles have appeared in Textual Practice, ELH, Victorian Poetry, Utopian Studies, Key Words and elsewhere.He is a former editor of The Journal of William Morris Studies, and he published an edited selection of William Morris's political writings with Verso in 2020. Owen took up his lectureship at the University of Edinburgh in 2022, having previously taught at Jesus College in Oxford, University College London and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.Gerard McKeeverGerard McKeever is Lecturer in Modern Scottish Literature. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Glasgow, before spending two years as Research Assistant on the Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns (AHRC).He was then a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow between 2017 and 2020, working on a project titled 'Regional Romanticism: Dumfriesshire and Galloway, 1770–1830'. Subsequently, he was Research Fellow for two years on the AHRC-funded 'Books and Borrowing 1750–1830' project at the University of Stirling. He joined the University of Edinburgh in 2022.How to attendEach year, English and Scottish Literature hosts a variety of exciting research events featuring a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues.Events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is required.Are you interested in a PhD in English Literature?We offer two PhDs: one in English Literature; and one in Creative Writing. Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in all periods and genres of literature and literary analysis. Working with colleagues elsewhere in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) and across the wider University of Edinburgh, we are also able to support research which crosses further boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about PhD study in English Literature at Edinburgh Feb 14 2025 16.00 - 17.30 English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Owen Holland and Gerard McKeever An in-person seminar by Dr Owen Holland and Dr Gerard McKeever (University of Edinburgh), with respective titles of 'James ‘B.V.’ Thomson and the Melancholy of Defeat' and 'Subversive Antiquarianism'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
Feb 14 2025 16.00 - 17.30 English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Owen Holland and Gerard McKeever An in-person seminar by Dr Owen Holland and Dr Gerard McKeever (University of Edinburgh), with respective titles of 'James ‘B.V.’ Thomson and the Melancholy of Defeat' and 'Subversive Antiquarianism'.
