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CURRICULUM VITAE
Professor David Finkelstein
Date of completion: May 2011
Work address: School of Arts, Social Sciences and Management, Queen Margaret University,
Edinburgh, Queen Margaret University Drive, Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland EH21 6UU
Email: dfinkelstein@qmu.ac.uk; Work telephone: 44-131-474-0000
AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTEREST
Victorian Culture, Print Culture and Book History Studies, Media History and Literary Journalism
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Academic degrees
1986-1990 Ph.D. University of Edinburgh
Thesis title: "A Study of the Works of Philip Meadows Taylor".
A study of colonial history and of a 19 th -century „Anglo-Indian‟ writer and administrator
Co-supervisors: Prof. Paul Edwards (English Literature); Dr. Tom Barron (History)
1982-86 B.A. Columbia University, New York
first class degree equivalent
Major fields of study: English Literature and History
1984-85 Lincoln College, Oxford University
One of ten Columbia University students selected for prestigious third year Oxford-
Columbia exchange programme
Prizes and Medals
2007 Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize, awarded for the publication in 2006 that most
significantly advanced the understanding of the nineteenth-century periodical press
1997 Glenfiddich Living Scotland Award, awarded for the SAPPHIRE intiative‟s
contribution to the preservation and promotion of Scotland‟s cultural heritage
Peer Esteem Factors
Fellow of the English Association (FEA), 2011-present; Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts
(FRSA), 2007-present
Listed in Who’s Who in Scotland, 2007-present; Marquis’s Who’s Who in the World, 2007-present
EMPLOYMENT
Sept 2003-
Research Professor of Media and Print Culture, Queen Margaret University,
Edinburgh
Jan.-Sept. 2003 Acting Head of School (Associate Dean) of Social Sciences, Media and
Communication, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
2002-2003 Professor of Media and Print Culture, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
2000-2003 Head of Department, Media and Communication, Queen Margaret University College,
Edinburgh
1998-2000 Senior Lecturer, Print Media, Publishing and Communication Department, Napier
University, Edinburgh
1994-1998 Lecturer, PMPC, Napier University;
1991-1994 British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of English Literature,
University of Edinburgh. One of thirty fellowships awarded in 1991;
1990-1991 Archivist, National Library of Scotland. Organised and catalogued a major portion of the
National Library of Scotland collection of Blackwood & Sons publishing records, funded
by four research foundations.

RESEARCH
Authored Books
Finkelstein (in progress). Print on the Move: Social Networks and Printing Skills Migration
across the British World, 1850-1914.
Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery (due for completion Feb 2012). An Introduction to
Book History, 2 nd revised edition. London: Routledge
Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery (2005). An Introduction to Book History. London:
Routledge (160 pp). ISBN 0-415-31443-7. Italian translation (2006). Introduzione all storia del
libro. Milan: Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard (161 pp). ISBN 8-889-60914-1. Chinese translation
(2011) Commercial Press (China).
Finkelstein (2002). The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era.
University Park, PA: Penn State Press (200 pp). ISBN 0-271-02179-9.
Finkelstein (1995). An Index to Blackwood's Magazine 1901-1980. Aldershot: Scolar Press (380
pp). ISBN 1-859-28104-4.
Finkelstein (1990). Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-1876). Victorian Fiction Research Guides 18.
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press (40 pp). ISBN 0-867-76363-9
Edited Books
McCleery, Alistair, David Finkelstein and Jennie Renton, eds. (2009) An Honest Trade:
Booksellers and Bookselling in Scotland. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers (153 pp.) ISBN 0-
859-76673-X.
Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery, eds. (2007). Edinburgh History of the Book in
Scotland, vol. 4: Professionalisation and Diversity, 1880-2000. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press. (548 pp.) ISBN 0-748-61829-5.
Finkelstein, David, ed. (2006). Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805-1930. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press. (340 pp.) ISBN 0-8020-8711-6 Awarded the 2007 Robert Colby
Scholarly Book Prize by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
McCleery, Alistair, David Finkelstein and Sarah Bromage, eds. (2006). Papermaking on the
Water of Leith. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd. (176 pp.) ISBN 0-859-76672-1.
Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery, eds. (2006). The Book History Reader, 2 nd revised
edition. London and New York: Routledge (570 pp.). ISBN 0-415-35948-3.
Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery, eds. (2001). The Book History Reader. London and
New York: Routledge (390 pp). ISBN 0-415-22658-9
Holmes, Heather and David Finkelstein, eds. (2001). Thomas Nelson and Sons. Flashback Series
14. East Linton: Tuckwell Press (130 pp). ISBN 1-86232-187-6
Brake, Laurel, Bill Bell and David Finkelstein, eds. (2000). Nineteenth-Century Media and the
Construction of Identities. Basingstoke: Palgrave (387 pp). ISBN 0-333-71146-7
Finkelstein, David and Douglas Mark Peers, eds. (2000). Negotiating India in the Nineteenth-
Century Media. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press (285 pp). ISBN 0-333-68151-7
Book Chapters (refereed, 2003-present)
Finkelstein and Claire Squires (forthcoming 2013) “Book Events and Literary Environments.” in
A. Nash and C. Squires, eds., Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Vol. 7. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press (4000 words commissioned).
Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (forthcoming 2013) “Publishing Infrastructures.” in A. Nash
and C. Squires, eds., Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Vol. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press (20,000 words commissioned).
Finkelstein (forthcoming 2012) “Maga’s Shifting Paratexts and Advertising Supplements, 1817-
1834.” In Rob Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, eds. ‘An Unprecendented Phenomenon’:
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Romanticism and Blackwood’s Magazine. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (5000 words
commissioned).
Fleming, Linda, Alistair McCleery and David Finkelstein (in press, forthcoming July 2011) “In a
class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth-century
Scotland.” In K. Halsey, S. Towheed and R. Crone, eds., The History of Reading, vol. 2: The
British Isles. London: Routledge. (20 pages in manuscript)
Finkelstein (in press, forthcoming 2011) “Publishing and the Materiality of the Book.” in Kate
Flint, ed. The New Cambridge History of English Literature: The Victorian Period. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. (25 pages in manuscript)
Finkelstein (in press, forthcoming, 2011) “Publishing.” in Peter Logan, ed. Blackwell
Encyclopedia of the Novel. Oxford: Blackwell. (9 pages in manuscript)
Finkelstein (2009). “Scottish Book Publishing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.” in
Kenneth Veitch, ed. Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, vol. 8: Transport and Communication
in Scotland. Edinburgh: NMS and John Donald Publishers. (pp. 695-715).
Finkelstein (2008). “Book Circulation and Reader Responses in Colonial India.” in Mary
Hammond and Robert Fraser, eds. Books Without Borders, Volume 2: Perspectives from South
Asia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (pp.100-111).
Finkelstein (2007). “The Role of the Publisher, 1830-1880.” in Bill Bell, ed. Edinburgh History
of the Book in Scotland, Vol. 3: Ambition and Industry, 1800-1880. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press (pp. 96-106).
Finkelstein (2007). “The „Dangerous Third Martini‟: Graham Greene, Libel and Literary
Journalism in 1930s Britain.” in Richard Keeble and Sharon Wheeler, eds. The Journalistic
Imagination. London: Routledge (pp. 87-100).
Finkelstein (2007). “The Globalisation of the Book 1800-1970.” in Simon Eliot and Jonathan
Rose, eds. Blackwell Companion to the History of the Book. Oxford: Blackwell (pp. 329-340).
Finkelstein (2007). “History of the Book, Authorship, Book Design and Publishing.” in Charles
Bazerman, ed. Handbook of Writing Research: History, Society, School, Individual, Text.
London and New York: Taylor and Francis (pp. 65-79). Essay collection presented with the
international Conference on College Composition and Communication 2009 Outstanding
Book Award.
Finkelstein (2006). “Periodicals, Encyclopaedias and Nineteenth-Century Literary Production.”
in Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning, Murray Pittock, eds. Edinburgh History of
Scottish Literature, Vol. 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (pp. 198-210).
Robert L. Patten and David Finkelstein (2006). “Editing Blackwood’s: or, What Do Editors Do?”
in David Finkelstein, ed. Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805-1930. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press (pp. 146-183).
Finkelstein (2003). “David Livingstone (1813-1873).” in Jennifer Speake, ed. The Literature of
Travel and Exploration,vol. 2 G-P. New York & London: Fitzroy Dearborn (pp. 730-732).
Finkelstein (2003). “Imperial Self-Representation: Constructions of Empire in Blackwood's
Magazine 1880-1900.” in Julie Codell, ed. Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the
British and Colonial Press. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (pp. 95-108).
Journal Articles (refereed, 2003-present)
Finkelstein (under consideration) “„Secret Signs‟: Readers‟ Marks in Public Library Genre
Fiction.” Library History.
David Finkelstein and Sydney Shep (in press, forthcoming 2011) “Migration, Identity and Print
Culture: Sir David Henry and the Kinleith Paper Mill.” Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 4.2
Finkelstein (2009). “„Decent Company‟: Conrad, Blackwood’s, and the Literary Marketplace.”
Conradiana 41.1 (Spring): 29-47.
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Bromage, Sarah, David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (2009). “Publishing, Oral History and
the SAPPHIRE Archive.” Scottish Archives 15: 91-97.
Finkelstein (2008). “The Publication History of Ranjitsinhji‟s The Jubilee Book of Cricket.”
Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. 3: 38-48.
Bromage, Sarah, Alistair McCleery and David Finkelstein (2007). “„A Most Serviceable
Drudge‟: The Papermills of the Water of Leith.” The Quarterly: The Journal of the British
Association of Paper Historians. 63 (October): 9-16.
McCleery, Alistair and David Finkelstein (2005). “Archie Turnbull and Edinburgh University
Press.” Journal of Scholarly Publishing. October: 33-47.
Finkelstein (2005) “When Dimples Sued Pinkie: Libel and Literary Journalism in 1930s
Britain.” Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, 2.1: 20-25.
McCleery, Alistair, David Finkelstein and Sarah Bromage (2005). “Papermaking on the Water of
Leith.” History Scotland, 5.2: 48-55.
McCleery, Alistair, David Finkelstein and Sarah Bromage (2004). “Of the Making of Books …:
Thomas Nelson and the SAPPHIRE initiative.” International Review of Scottish Studies 29: 29-
48.
Finkelstein (2003). “Unraveling Speke: The Unknown Revision of an African Exploration
Classic.” History in Africa 30: 117-132.
Finkelstein (2003). “„Jack‟s as Good as His Master‟: Scots and Print Culture in New Zealand,
1860-1900.” Book History 6: 95-107.
Book reviews
Over 75 book reviews between 1990-present for the following journals:
Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography; Carlyle Studies Annual; Edinburgh Review; Journalism
Practice; Journal of Historical Geography; The Library; Library History; Library Quarterly; Media
History; Notes and Queries; Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; Papers of the
Bibliographical Society of Canada, Publishing History; Review of English Studies; Scottish Literary
Journal; Sharp News; Times Higher Education Supplement; Times Literary Supplement; Journal of
Victorian Culture; Victorian Periodicals Review; Victorian Studies.
Contributions to series and journals
“Journalism Lives”, regular feature article on past and present media practitioners for
Journalism Practice (2007-present)
“Sports Broadcasters: Howard Cosell and Harry Carpenter.” 5.2 (2011): 1-4.
“Radio Journalism: H.V. Kaltenborn and José Pardo Llada.” 4.1 (2010): 114-118.
“Photojournalism: Arthur Fellig (Weegee) and Homai Vyarawalla.” 3.1 (2009): 108-112.
“Investigative Journalism: Elena Poniatowska and Anna Politkovskaya.” 2.1 (2008): 129-
133.
“Rupert Murdoch and Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe.” 1.2 (2007): 277-282.
Editorial Board, Book Series, Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace, Pickering and Chatto
(2011-present)
Editorial Board, Book Series, Book Practices and Textual Itineraries, Presse Universitaire de
Nancy (2011-present)
Editorial Board, Media History (2008-present)
Editorial Board, Victorian Periodicals Review (2006-present)
Editorial Board, The Bibliotheck (2002-present)
Editorial Board, Book History (1996-2006)
Co-editor, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (2005-present)
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Series co-editor (with Martin Conboy and Bob Franklin), Journalism Studies: Key Texts. Six
titles commissioned, three published to date (Sage, 2005-present)
Prize Committee member, Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize, Research Society for Victorian
Periodicals (2006; 2008)
Section contributor, Victorian Period: Periodicals and Publishing, Year’s Work in English
Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2000-present)
Editor of SHARP News, quarterly bulletin, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and
Publishing, readership of 1000 in 23 countries (1996-2000)
Abstractor for ABC-Clio International History Abstracts of journals Media History (1994-2007)
and Publishing History (1994-2009)
Research supervision
Director of Studies and Primary supervisor of doctoral candidates
Sarah Jane Artt, “The Master and Mrs. Wharton: Film Adaptations of the Works of Edith
Wharton and Henry James,” Queen Margaret University College (PhD awarded 2005)
Siân Bayne, “Learning Cultures in Cyberspace,” QMUC (PhD awarded 2004)
Katherine Kelman, “Female „Self Culture‟ in Edinburgh: The Ladies‟ Edinburgh Debating
Society,” QMUC (PhD awarded 2003)
Anna Malina, “Community Development in Cyberspace: A Case Study of a Community
Network,” The Open University and QMUC (PhD awarded 2001)
Chris Atton, “The Alternative Press in the 1990s,” Napier University (PhD awarded 1998)
Second Supervisor of doctoral candidates (2003-present)
Amy Prior, “The Cartographic Conception and Representation of the British Empire,” 2009-
present, AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentships, in collaboration with the University
of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland
Julie McDougall, “Communication Networks in the Geographical Book Trade,” 2009-present,
AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentships, in collaboration with the University of
Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland
John Williamson, “Contemporary Changes in the Music Industries,” QMU (PhD awarded 2009)
Nichola Dobson, “A Cultural Analysis of U.S. Animation,” QMUC (PhD awarded 2004)
Karen Qureshi, “The Process of Culture and Identity in the context of second generation Scots in
Edinburgh,” The Open University and QMUC (PhD awarded 2003)
Appointment as examiner for Research Degrees (2003-present)
Guy Whitehouse, PhD “Access to Ebooks by the Visually Impaired,” Loughborough University,
2011
Pauline Farley, PhD “English Children's Annuals, Australia, and the „British Embrace‟,”
University of Western Australia, 2010
Hege R d Segerblad, MPhil, “Transcending the Gothic: The Extravagancies of Blackwood,”
University of Glasgow, 2010
Kirstie Jamieson, PhD, “Revelling in Policy: Between Cultural and Administrative Festival
Imaginaries,” Edinburgh Napier University, 2008
Frederick Nesta, PhD, “The Commerce of Literature: George Gissing and the Economics of Late
Victorian Publishing, 1880-1903,” The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2007
Simone Kurtzke, PhD, “The Webfilm as Cultural Form,” internal examiner, Queen Margaret
University, Edinburgh, 2006
William Freebury, PhD, “Attitudes to Literary Property: Book Prices and Anglo-American
Copyright as Reflected in The Bookseller, 1858-1891,” The Open University, 2003
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Research Visits (2003-present)
2007 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of
Edinburgh, January-August
2006 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Historical and Cultural Research, Oxford Brookes
University, January-December
2005 British Council sponsored Canadian research and lecture visit, including Simon Fraser
University, Dalhousie University, University of Windsor, University of Toronto, Trent
University and Queen‟s University. Also a plenary speaker at the Victorian Studies
Association of Western Canada conference, Vancouver, October
External Recognition in Research
Keynote and sponsored addresses, lectures and public presentations (2003-present)
Keynote speaker, International conference, “From Text(s) to Book(s),” Nancy-Université,
France (forthcoming, June 2012)
“Rats: A Curious Case of Libel and Slander in the Glasgow Printing Trade,” Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society (forthcoming, September 2011)
“There and Back: A Book‟s Voyage through Colonial India,” South Asia Archives and Library
Group (SAALG) conference, Edinburgh (forthcoming, July 2011)
“„When Jesus Surfed to Hawaii‟: How a Queen was Deposed and a Scots-Hawaiian Princess
Martyr Created,” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
(VISAWUS) annual conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2010
“Printers on the Move,” „Perils of Print Culture‟ conference, Trinity College, Dublin, September
2010
“King Kong as Media Artefact,” Book History Symposia, Moore Institute for the Arts, National
University of Ireland Galway, March 2010
“Literary Agents,” British Library publishing study day, London, March 2010
Respondent, “Women‟s Reading in the Nineteenth Century,” AHRC sponsored symposium,
Institute of English Studies, London, March 2009
Roundtable discussant, “Practising Book History,” Book History Research Network Study Day,
University of Edinburgh, March 2009
“Nineteenth-Century Scottish Periodicals,” York Bibliographical Society, UK, January 2009
“Print, Publishing, Oral History and the SAPPHIRE initiative,” Scottish Records Association
annual conference, Perth, November 2008
“The Role of the Editor in Nineteenth-Century Scottish Periodicals,” CILIP Rare Books Group
conference, Edinburgh, September 2008
“Books in Scotland,” Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, August 2008
“Working the Archive from a Book History Angle,” Royal Society of Edinburgh sponsored
symposium, “Across the Divide” Interdisciplinary dialogues on the archive,” Dundee University,
March 2008
Public lecture, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, University of Indiana, Bloomington,
February 2008
Colby Prize Plenary lecture, “Re-evaluating Blackwood and its Magazine,” Research Society for
Victorian Periodicals annual conference, Richmond, Virginia, September 2007
Plenary round-table on digitisation and the future of Victorian Studies research, British
Association of Victorian Studies conference, University of Salford, August 2007
Keynote Speaker, “Cheap Publishing and Mass Markets in Nineteenth-Century Britain,” AHRC
funded symposium, „Ruskin, Cultural Tourism and Dissemination‟ University of Lancaster, July
2007
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“Ad Supplements in Nineteenth-Century Literary Periodicals,” international one-day symposium
on nineteenth-century journalism, Royal Flemish Academy, Brussels, Belgium, March 2007
Keynote Speaker, “New Media, Print Culture and Communication Revolutions,” Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada annual conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
October 2005
Koerner Lecture, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 2005
Plenary, “Ethnography and the Archaeological Rescue of Book History,” international
conference, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Halifax, Canada,
July 2005
Keynote Speaker, “The Cult of the Author: Print Culture and Authority in an Era of Individual
Authorship,” postgraduate research programme, “The Construction of Authorship and the
Material Text,” Georg Brandes School and Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen,
September 2004
“I Played Frisbee with Jesus: Media, Print and the Cult of Personality,” Professorial Lecture,
Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, November 2003; also the English Institute,
University of Copenhagen, September 2004; Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, December
2004; University of Windsor, Trent University, Queen‟s University, October 2005; University of
Aberdeen, November 2005; University of Toronto, December 2005
“„Jack‟s as good as his master‟: Scots and Print Culture in New Zealand, 1860-1900,”
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, November 2002; also the Bibliographical Society (London),
March 2003
Invited contributions to conferences and public seminars (2003-present)
“Printers‟ Memoirs, Novels and Short Stories in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1840-1914,”
annual conference, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Canterbury Christ Church
University, July 2011
“A Blackwoodian Female Literary Network, 1880-1910,” annual conference, British Association
of Victorian Studies, Glasgow, September 2010
“Rats on the Shop Floor: Social Control Mechanisms in Nineteenth-Century Printing Unions,”
“Book History from Below”, international conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, August
2010
“Tramping Typographers and Transnational Labour Mobility in the Scottish Printing Trade,
1850-1900,” “Tradition and Innovation: The State of Book History”, international conference,
University of Toronto, Canada, June 2009
“Scots émigré influence on the New Zealand Press,” “Centres and Peripheries: metropolitan and
non-metropolitan journalism”, international conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, May
2009
“Migration, Identity and Print Culture: Sir David Henry and the Kinleith Paper Mill,” copresentation,
international conference, “Nations, Diasporas, Identities”, Wellington, New
Zealand, March 2008; also presented at “Published Words, Public Spaces: A Nordic Conference
on International Print Culture, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2008
“Sports in the Colonies: The Publication History of Ranjitsinhji's Jubilee Book of Cricket,”
international conference, “A World Elsewhere: Orality, Manuscript and Print in Colonial and
Post-Colonial Cultures,” Centre for the Book, Cape Town, South Africa, April 2007
“Reputation and the Periodical Press: R.D. Blackmore's The Maid of Sker,” „Scottish Literature
in the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace‟ research seminar series, Centre for the History of the
Book, University of Edinburgh, November 2006
“Rating Literary Standing through Victorian Periodical Contents Pages: A Case Study of The
Maid of Sker,” „Publishing Periodicals‟ research seminar series, Institute of English Studies,
University of London, November 2006
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“Hierarchies of Value in Victorian Periodical Contents Pages: A Case Study of The Maid of
Sker,” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, annual conference, New York, September
2006
“Paper and Press: Using Victorian Media Sources for Colonial Book History Studies,”
International conference, “Reaching the Margins: The Colonial and Postcolonial Lives of the
Book, 1765-2005”, University of London, November 2005
“How Scots Invented Literary Journalism: A Historical Perspective,” Association of Journalism
Educators conference, London, September 2004; also, British Association of Victorian Studies
regional seminar series, Edinburgh, March 2006
“When Dimples Sued Pinkie: Media Stars and Media Ethics in 1930s Britain,” International
Society for the Study of European Ideas, 9 th International Conference, University of Navarra,
Pamplona, Spain, August 2004; also the annual conference of the Scottish Media and
Communication Association, University of Abertay, Dundee, December 2004
“Voices from the Papermills,” co-presenter, international conference, Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Lyon, France, July 2004
“Rewriting Africa: The Revising of British Exploration Narratives, 1850-1880,” international
conference, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Lyon, France, July
2004
“The Role of the Publisher,” AHRB funded research conference, History of the Book in
Scotland 1800-1880, University of Edinburgh, April 2004
Referee of journal articles for:
The Bibliotheck; Book History; European Review of History-Revue européenne d’histoire, History
of Intellectual Culture; Journalism Studies, Journal of Stevenson Studies, Library Quarterly;
Literature Compass; SEL: Studies in English Literature; Journal of Victorian Culture; Victorian
Periodicals Review
Reader of book proposals and manuscript submissions for:
Ashgate Press; Oxford University Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Pearson Education, Penn State
University Press; Pickering and Chatto; Polity Press, Routledge; Sage; University of Chicago Press;
University of Toronto Press; Yale University Press
Newspaper articles and features in:
BBC History Magazine; The Guardian; The Scotsman; Times Higher Education Supplement
Radio and tv appearances on:
Australian Radio National; BBC Radio 4; BBC Radio Scotland; BBC Radio Shropshire; Radio
Forth; BBC Scotland (TV); BBC “Newsline” (TV); BBC World Service
Commissioned radio work
Commissioned consultant, BBC Radio 4 programme on nineteenth-century African exploration,
“The Empire Writes Back”, broadcast 13 August 2001, subsequently featured in The Guardian (13
August 2001) and The Sydney Morning Herald (14 August 2001)
Exhibitions
Co-curator of exhibition, “Scotland Ink: 10 Scottish Books that Changed the World,” Eden Court,
Inverness, 1-31 October 2009, in association with the Scottish Centre for the Book and Publishing
Scotland. Exhibition subsequently displayed at:
Lennoxlove Book Festival (13-14 November 2009)
Wigtown Book Festival (24 September-3 October 2010)
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Co-curator of exhibition, “Bringing the Page to Life: Papermaking on the Water of Leith,” Water of
Leith Conservation Trust Centre, Jan-March 2004. Exhibition subsequently displayed at:
Museum of Edinburgh (March-June 2004);
Institut d‟histoire du livre, Lyon, France (July 2004)
Juniper Green, Edinburgh, 300 th anniversary celebration (May 2007)
Co-curator of exhibition, “Thomas Nelson and Sons: Spreading the printed word,” Museum of
Edinburgh, August 2001-January 2002, featured in the Evening Herald (18 August 2001). Exhibition
subsequently displayed at:
Water of Leith Conservation Trust Centre, Edinburgh (March 2002);
Bauermeister‟s Bookshop, Edinburgh (April 2002);
Senate House Library, University of London (July-September 2002);
Binnie Museum, Bathgate (September-November 2002);
Queen Margaret University College Library (November 2002-February 2003)
Conference Organisation (2002-present)
Co-organiser, “The Post-colonial Book,” one-day international symposium, Queen Margaret
University, Edinburgh, 27 March 2011
Organiser, “Transnational Print Trade Migration,” Delmas Foundation funded interdisciplinary
symposium, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 30 September-2 October 2010
Co-organiser and programme committee leader, international conference, “Creativity in
Question,” Edinburgh, 22-24 March 2002 [Conference featured in the Edinburgh Evening News,
20 March 2002]
External Activity (2003-present)
2011-2015 Board of Trustees, National Library of Scotland
2011-present Judging Panel Committee, Edinburgh Gadda Prize
2010 Appointment panel member, Professorship in Book History, University of Helsinki,
Finland
2009-2010 Arts and Humanities Research Council Prioritisation Panel, responsible for final
ranking of submissions for research grant awards to Panel D
2009 Associate Editor, Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, responsible for
entries on the Scottish Press
2009-present External assessor and evaluator of School module changes, School of Creative
Industries, Edinburgh Napier University
2009-2010 External School examiner, School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes
University
2009-present Advisory Panel, Edinburgh History of Scottish Libraries
2007-2014 Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College member, with
responsibilities for evaluating applications in Media and Communication Studies,
Library and Information Studies, and English Language and Literature
2007-2011 External examiner, BA (Hons) Publishing with English programme, BA (Hon)
Publishing with E-Business, Loughborough University
2007-2011 External examiner, MA Publishing, Oxford Brookes University
2007 External panel member, review of BA Media and Cultural Studies and MA Media
and Communications Management programmes, Middlesex University, February
2006 External panel member, validation of MA in European Publishing Studies, Oxford
Brookes University, January
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2006-present External peer reviewer, research grant applications: British Academy, Arts and
Humanities Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, National Endowment for the
Humanities, National Science Foundation, Wellcome Trust
2007 Programme committee advisory board, international conference, „A World
Elsewhere: Orality, Manuscript and Print in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures,‟
Centre for the Book, Cape Town, South Africa, April 2007
2006-present Advisory Board, Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism
2005-present Tenure and professorial promotion reviewer, Simon Fraser University (2007);
University of Indiana, (2007); Napier University, Edinburgh (2006); University of
Toronto (2005)
2005-present Royal Literary Fund Fellowship coordinator, Queen Margaret University
2005-2009 Board of Governors, Stepfamily Scotland
2005 External panel member, review of BA and MSc programmes in Publishing Studies,
Oxford Brookes University, February
2010-2013 Treasurer, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society
2004-2010 President, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society
2001-2004 Vice-President, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society
1996-present Member of the Board of Directors, international Research Society for Victorian
Periodicals
2000-present Member of the British Association of Victorian Studies; the Bibliographical Society;
Lifetime Honorary Member, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
Research Awards, Grants, Sponsorship (2003-present)
2011 Printing Historical Society Small Research Grant (£750) awarded as Principal
Investigator, preliminary research on „Irish Printers on the Move: The Transnational
Circulation of Irish Typographical Union Personnel, 1850-1900‟
2011-2012 Royal Society of Edinburgh Workshop Award in the Arts and Humanities
(£7602), awarded as co-applicant with University of Stirling towards organisational
costs of workshops and conference on “Book Events: The Transnational Culture,
Commerce and Social Impact of Literary Festivals”
2009 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant ($10,000), awarded towards
organisational costs of Autumn 2010 symposia on “Transnational Print Trade
Migration, Identity and Skills Transfer in the British Imperial World, 1840-1918”
2008-2011 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, “The Bartholomew Archive and Networks
of Publishing and Geographical Knowledge, c.1830-c,1980”, second supervisor, in
collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland
2008-09 Arts and Humanities Research Council Knowledge Catalyst Transfer Grant
(£24,330) awarded as Principal Investigator for “Web 2.0 Application in an Archival
Setting”. Co-funded by the AHRC and the National Library of Scotland (NLS), lead
for a six month project embedding media literacy skills in the NLS, managing
training workshops and supporting creation of short video pieces (video-blogs)
promoting the John Murray Archive in online social network environments.
2008 Bibliographical Society (Antiquarian Booksellers Association Award); Carnegie
Trust for the Universities of Scotland Personal Research Grant (£3420) awarded
as Principal Investigator, preliminary research for “A Study of Scottish
Typographical Association Records, 1860-1900”
2006-2009 Arts and Humanities Research Council Large Research Grant; Carnegie Trust
for the Universities of Scotland Major Reseach Grant (£327,000) awarded as coapplicant
with Scottish Centre for the Book, Napier University for “Scottish Readers
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Remember”, a three year project investigating the place of libraries and reading in
local communities.
2006-2007 Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Leave Grant (£26,960)
awarded as Principal Investigator to complete work on the Edinburgh History of the
Book in Scotland, 1880-2000
2005-2007 British Academy Small Research Grant (£6733) awarded as Principal Investigator
for “Migration, Identity and Scots-New Zealand print culture connections 1860-
1980”, collaborative project with Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
2005 British Council UK/Canada Collaborative Programme Grant (£400) to defray
travel costs for a lecture tour and collaborative links visit to Canadian universities,
speaking at the University of Toronto, University of Windsor, Simon Fraser
University, Queens University, Trent University and Dalhousie University (October)
2004-2009 Scottish Research Infrastructural Funding (£75,000) two major bids awarded as
principal investigator from Queen Margaret University SRIF allocation to support
development of QMU practice based media research infrastructure
2004 British Academy Overseas Travel Grant (£301) to present a paper at the 9 th
International conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas
(ISSEI), Pamplona, Spain (August)
2003 Resources for Learning Scotland (RLS) project grant (£4450), awarded as
Principal Investigator to digitise material on Scottish print and publishing history for
educational purposes
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