Border Trouble: Scottish Balladry, Mediality, and World Literature

The annual Stephen Copley lecture

Maureen N. McLane was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2008) and Romanticism and the Human Sciences (CUP, 2000, 2006).  She also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (2008).  Her research and teaching focus on British literature and culture, 1750-1830, and more broadly on the intersection of poetry, "literature", and modernity: special areas of interest include romanticism, modernism, balladry (British and American), mediality, 20th- and 21st-century poetries in English, the human sciences, historiography, and the case of Scotland. A poet and critic, she is the author of Same Life: poems (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2008) and World Enough: poems (FSG, 2010), as well as My Poets (2012) - an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism.   Her third book of poems, This Blue, is forthcoming from FSG in 2014.

A Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies event in association with Writers at York.

Maureen McLane will also give a poetry reading, tomorrow, Thursday 6 March, in the Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building.