Nigel James Leask (born 1958) is a Scottish academic publishing on Romantic , Scottish , and Anglo-Indian literature, with special interest on British Empire , Orientalism , and Travel writing . He has been Regius Professor of English language and literature at the University of Glasgow , since 2004. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

He won the Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year award in 2010 for his book Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late-18th Century Scotland . He is a fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Centenary Fellow of the English Association . ^[1]

Early life and education [ edit ]

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He was born in 1958 and grew up in Stirlingshire . He was educated at Edinburgh Academy , University of Oxford , and University of Cambridge before taking up a position of Reader in Romantic literature at Cambridge University. He is married and has two daughters. ^{[1] [2]}

Career [ edit ]

In 2004, he was appointed to Regius chair of English language and literature at University of Glasgow, and is Head of the School of Critical Studies, currently from 1 August 2010. ^[3] He also held teaching appointments at the University of Bologna , Italy ; University of Dundee , Scotland ; and a visiting professorship at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) , Mexico City . He has lectured widely in India , Europe , and Americas . ^[1]

He published The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge’s Critical Thought , his first book, in 1988; subsequently, British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire in 1992, and many others later. ^[1]

Bibliography [ edit ]

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• The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge’s Critical Thought , 1988.
• British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire , 1992.
• Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840: From an Antique Land , 2002.
• Irish republicans and gothic Eleutherarchs: Pacific utopias in the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone and Charles Brockden Brown , 2002.
• Darwin's Second Sun: Alexander von Humboldt and the Genesis of the Voyage of the Beagle , 2003.
• Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic of Taste , 2004, co-edited with David Simpson and Peter De Bolla.
• Maurice, Thomas (1754?1824), oriental scholar and librarian , 2004.
• Burns, Wordsworth and the politics of vernacular poetry , 2005.
• Byron and the eastern Mediterranean: Childe Harold II and the polemic of Ottoman Greece , 2005.
• Travelling the Other Way: The travels of Mirza Abu Talib Khan (1810) and romantic Orientalism , 2006.
• Kubla Khan and orientalism: the road to Xanadu revisited , 2006.
• Thomas Muir and the telegraph: radical cosmopolitanism in 1790s Scotland. History Workshop Journal , 2007.
• His Hero's Story': Dr Currie's Burns, Moore's Byron and Romantic Biography , 2008.
• Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland , 2009, co-edited with Phil Connel.
• Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late-18th Century Scotland , 2010.
• Their Groves o' Sweet Myrtles': Robert Burns and the Scottish Colonial Experience , 2012.

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Awards [ edit ]

• Saltire Award - Scottish Research Book of the Year 2010. ^{[1] [6]}

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External links [ edit ]

• Professor Nigel Leask, Head of the University’s School of Critical Studies.
• The University of Glasgow have been awarded the funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council - The team include English literature professors Nigel Leask.
• Professor Nigel Leask from the University of Glasgow will visit Dundee to take part in English's Visiting Speaker Programme.
• Speakers - Nigel Leask