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Susan Manning
Email Address: susan.manning@ed.ac.uk
Telephone Number: 0131 650 4671
Office: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), Hope Park Square
Office hours: Wednesday 12 - 1 (postgraduate)
Grierson Professor of English Literature, Director of IASH
I received my first degree and PhD from the University of Cambridge, subsequently studied and worked in the U.S., and moved to Edinburgh in 1999. Before taking up my current position as Director of the interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) in January 2005, I held the posts of Research Director and Postgraduate Director in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. I’m a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust. As a member of the Press Committee of Edinburgh University Press and of the Gifford Lectureships Committee, and Deputy Chair of the Research Committee of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, I take an active role in the developing research agenda for Arts and Humanities at Edinburgh. I also serve on the Advisory Boards of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, the Stirling/South Carolina Edition of the Works of James Hogg, and the journal Modern Intellectual History. I am a Board Member and Past President of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society;
My primary research interests lie in the fields of the Scottish Enlightenment and in Scottish-American literary relations, the subjects of my books The Puritan-Provincial Vision (CUP, 1990), and the transatlantic study Fragments of Union (Palgrave, 2002). I am one of the co-editors of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature which was published in three volumes in 2006, and (with Andrew Taylor) of the first Reader in Transatlantic Literary Studies. I’ve also edited several collections of essays in Enlightenment studies, as well as the works of Henry Mackenzie (including a new edition of Julia de Roubigné), Walter Scott's Quentin Durward, Washington Irving’s The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., and Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer. My edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun was published by OUP in 2002.
I co-ordinate the Carnegie funded STAR (Scotland’s Transatlantic Relations) initiative and convene the ‘Literature and Transatlanticism’ MSc and the STAR postgraduate seminar. I also convene the research theme on ‘Institutions and Oppositions of Enlightenment’ which grew out of a three-year research project on The Science of Man in Scotland, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Both of these projects have benefited from the resources of IASH and conduct regular meetings at the Institute. My ongoing research projects include a new Edinburgh University Press series on "Transatlantic Literatures" (co-edited with Andrew Taylor), a major study of Character, and the development of methodologies for interdisciplinary and transnational studies
Books - Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (Palgrave 2002)
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- The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1990)
- Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, eds. Brown, Clancy, Manning & Pittock, 3 Volumes (Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
- Enlightenment and Emancipation, eds. Susan Manning and Peter France (Bucknell University Press, 2007)
- Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader, eds. Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
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- Symbiosis Special Numbers, Across the Great Divide, 2004 (edited, with Andrew Taylor); 8.1 and 8.2
- The Marble Faun, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. and introd. Susan Manning (Oxford: O.U.P., 2002)
- Julia de Roubigné, by Henry Mackenzie, ed. and introd. Susan Manning (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999)
- Letters from an American Farmer, by Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, ed. & introd., S.L. Manning (Oxford: O.U.P., 1997)
- The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., by Washington Irving, ed. and introd. S.L. Manning (Oxford: O.U.P., 1996)
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- The Collected Works of Henry Mackenzie, introd. S.L. Manning (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996)
- ''An Account of the Life and Writings of John Home, Esq.,” by Henry Mackenzie, introd. S.L. Manning (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996)
- Quentin Durward, by Walter Scott, ed. and introd. S.L. Manning (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
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