Education 

PhD, University of Edinburgh, 1976

Areas of Specialization 

   • Scottish Literature
   • Victorian Literature
   • History of the Book, Bibliography, Textual Editing
   • Rhetoric, History of English Studies
   • African literature

Professional Accolades 

   • Elected Honorary Fellow, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2015
   • Honorary Research Fellow in Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, 2013-
   • Honorary Life Member, Thomas Cooper Society, 2011
   • Honorary Member, Burns Club of Atlanta, 2010-
   • Lucy Hampton Bostick Award, 2008
   • Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of South Carolina, 2004
   • Leab Award (ALA/ACRL), 1999

Selected Publications

   • co-ed., Poems by a Lady, by Helen Craik, edited from the Beinecke Manuscript (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2023).
   • advisory ed., Robert Burns, 1759-1796: Literary Criticism 1400-1800, vol 311 (Gale, 2023).
   • ed., Robert Louis Stevenson: A Documentary Volume (Gale, 2021)
   • ed., The Ghost at the Feast: Religion and Scottish Literary Criticism (Scottish Literature Series, 2020)
   • advisory ed., "Robert Burns, 1759-1796," in Poetry Criticism, vol 218 (Gale, 2019), 1-237.
   • ed., Robert Burns: A Documentary Volume (Gale, 2018)
   • co-ed. Selected Essays on Robert Burns, by G. Ross Roy (Scottish Literature Series, 2018)
   • co-auth., The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census (Scottish Literature Series, 2017)
   • co-ed, The Complete Poems of Gavin Turnbull Online (Centre for Digital Humanities, 2015)
   • ed., The Prayer of Holy Willie, A Canting, hypocritical, Kirk Elder, by Robert Burns (Scottish Poetry Reprints, 2015)
   • ed., A Bard Unkend: Selected Poems in the Scottish Dialect, by Gavin Turnbull (Scottish Poetry Reprints, 2015)
   • co-ed,, Robert Burns & Friends (USC Libraries, 2012)
   • ed., The City of the Jugglers, by William North (Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2008)
   • ed., Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Signet/NAL, 2008, 7th printing 2012; new ed, 2016)
   • text. ed., Amours de Voyage, by A.H.Clough (Barbarian Press, 2007)
   • Duncan Glen and Akros: forty years of a Scottish press (Thomas Cooper Library,  2002)
   • Hemingway and the Thirties: An Exhibition from the Speiser & Easterling-Hallman Collection (Thomas Cooper Library,  2001)
   • The Heart of a Great University: Charting Two Hundred Years of USC Libraries  (Thomas Cooper Library,  2001)
   • John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Culture: An Exhibition (Thomas Cooper Library,  2000)
   • 'The Biographical Part of Literature': An Exhibition (Thomas Cooper Library,  1998)
   • The Great War: An Exhibition  (Thomas Cooper Library,  1997)
   • co-auth., Thomas Carlyle (1795-1882): A Bicentenary Exhibition (Thomas Cooper Library,  1995)
   • Alfred Tennyson (1808-1892): An Exhibition (Division of Special Libraries, 1992)
   • assoc. ed., Language and Literature of Early Scotland (CEMRS, 1992)
   • co-ed., Culture and Education in Victorian England (Bucknell Univ. Press, 1990)
   • ed., "Victorians on Rhetoric and Prose Style," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 57  (Gale, 1987), 375-509.
   • ed,, The Origin of Species, by Charles, Lord Neaves (Scottish Poetry Reprints, 1986)
   • The Early Editions of Arthur Hugh Clough (Garland, 1977)
   • ed,, The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich, by A.H.Clough (Univ. of Queensland Press, 1976)
   • ed,, Amours de Voyage, by A.H.Clough (Univ. of Queensland Press, 1974)
   • ed,, Victorian Poetry, 1830-1870 (Longman, 1971; 4th printing, 1976)
   • Tennyson’s Enoch Arden: A Victorian Best-Seller (Tennyson Society, 1970)

Other Information 

Director, Rare Books & Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries, 1996-2011
Editor, Studies in Scottish Literature, with Tony Jarrells, 2012-2025 (vols 37-50); consulting editor, 2025- (from vol. 51)
See:  http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/