SITE CONTRIBUTORS

Valentina Bold

Valentina Bold is a freelance writer and researcher, who previously spent many years as an academic. She currently works part-time as Heritage Officer with the Crichton Trust and Lead Researcher for Food Heritage Scotland. Her books include James Hogg: A Bard of Nature's Making and Robert Burns' Merry Muses of Caledonia. Valentina has written about, and taught, the work of Scottish women writers including Margaret Oliphant, Janet Hamilton, and Ellen Johnston. She is currently in the early stages of developing a critical biography of Scottish writer Florence Dixie.

lois burke

Lois Burke's research focuses on late-Victorian archival collections, particularly children’s writings. After completing her PhD in 2019 she has held research fellowships at Durham University and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She has co-curated exhibitions at the Museum of Childhood, is on the editorial board of the journal Jeunesse, and is currently preparing a monograph for publication.

Norman Deeley

Norman Deeley is a retired teacher of English. His M Phil (2021) from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, is on Catherine Helen Spence and is entitled Scottish Presence in the Australian Fiction of Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) with specific reference to Mr Hogarth's Will (1865) and Gathered In (1881-82). He also has a number of publications available on Amazon.com including four murder mysteries, two plays, two volumes of poetry and a teenage novel. 

Nikita Willeford Kastrinos

Nikita Willeford Kastrinos is a PhD student at the University of Washington and serves as the site designer for Scottish Women Writers on the Web. Her research focuses on the intersection of narrative and material form in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel.

Dana Graham Lai

Dana Graham Lai is a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and also holds an M.A. in English Literature from Carleton University and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Trinity Western University. Her research fields include interdisciplinary methods of literary criticism, ecocriticism, and theories of space and place, specifically within the context of nineteenth-century women’s writing

Charlotte Lauder

Charlotte Lauder is a PhD student at Strathclyde University where she is completing a dissertation on Victorian Scottish magazines.  Her article on women journalists and the People’s Friend is forthcoming in Victorian Periodicals Review. She is on the advisory board of the AHRC funded Scottish Magazines Network and a contributing member of the Scottish Revival network.  She recently co-organized a day-long seminar ‘Unforgettable, Unforgettable? Continuing the recovery of Scottish women writers, c.1880’, hosted by the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature at New College, University of Edinburgh.

gina lyle

Gina Lyle is a PhD researcher in the University of Glasgow's Scottish Literature department, analysing intersections of meat and gender in contemporary Scottish fiction.

Emily L. Pickard

Emily L. Pickard completed her bachelors and masters degrees in English Language and Literature and Women’s Studies and Feminist research, respectively, at the University of Western Ontario. Her doctoral thesis, ‘The Other Muir: Willa Muir, Motherhood, and Writing,’ explores the maternal through a feminist lens in Willa Muir’s published and unpublished writings. She lives in Stirling with her beagle, Henley.

Juliet Shields

Juliet Shields is Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. She has published books and articles on migration, imperialism, and the development of the novel, and is particularly interested in the intersection of racial and gender identities. Her book Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: the Romance of Everyday Life was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.