Background
Leith Davis was born on August 31, 1960, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Eric Davis, a civil engineering professor, and Nancy Constance (Lintott) Davis, a nurse.
Saskatoon SK S7N 5A2
In 1983, Leith received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saskatchewan.
Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
Leith received a Master of Arts in 1988, and a Ph.D. in 1990, from the University of California in Berkeley.
Leith Davis
Leith Davis
605 Acadia Dr, Saskatoon, SK S7H 3V8, Canada
From 1974 to 1978, Davis attended Evan Hardy Collegiate.
Penglais, Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3FL, United Kingdom
In 1981, Davis entered Aberystwyth University, where she studied English Literature until 1982.
(Acts of Union explores the political relationship between...)
Acts of Union explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in the literary realm in the century after the 1707 Act of Union. It examines Britain, one of the precursors to the modern nation, not as a homogeneous, stable unit, but as a dynamic process, a dialogue between heterogeneous elements.
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1998
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The essays undertake a collective rethinking of the national and period categories that have structured British literary history, by examining the relations between the concepts of Enlightenment and Romanticism as well as between Scottish and English writing.
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2004
(In Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender, Leith Davis studie...)
In Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender, Leith Davis studies the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on how texts concerning Irish music, as well as the social settings within which those texts emerged, contributed to the imagining of Ireland as “the Land of Song.”
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2006
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This is the first volume in a new series of the leading international journal in its field. It opens with a symposium on the Present State of Scottish Literary Studies with contributions from prominent Scottish, American, and Canadian scholars. The topics of other articles include the continuity of Scottish literature, an 18th-century Scottish ballad collector, the first printer of The Merry Muses of Caledonia, "Scots wha hae" on the Afro-New York Stage, Lockhart's Memoir of Walter Scott, and an unrecorded Robert Burns poetic manuscript.
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2012
Leith Davis was born on August 31, 1960, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Eric Davis, a civil engineering professor, and Nancy Constance (Lintott) Davis, a nurse.
From 1974 to 1978, Davis attended Evan Hardy Collegiate. Later, in 1981 she entered Aberystwyth University, where she studied English Literature until 1982.
In 1983, Leith received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon. She also received a Master of Arts in 1988, and a Ph.D. in 1990, from the University of California in Berkeley.
Leith is the author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Negotiation of the British Nation (Stanford UP, 1998) and Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish Identity, 1724-1874 (Notre Dame UP, 2005) as well as co-editor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004) and Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture (Ashgate, 2012).
She is currently working on a monograph entitled Media and Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland, 1688-1745 which explores the articulation of what Pierre Nora calls "spectacular" sites of cultural memory within the context of a shifting media ecology of the eighteenth century. In addition, with Janet Sorensen (UC Berkeley) she is co-editing the International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century.
Leith was a teaching assistant at the University of California in Berkeley, and assistant professor of the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. In 2006 she became a professor of English there, the position she holds today. She is a co-founder of the Department of English's MA with Specialization in Print Culture. Davis also served as Director of Simon Fraser University's Scottish Studies Centre from 2008-2015.
(In Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender, Leith Davis studie...)
2006(The essays undertake a collective rethinking of the natio...)
2004(Acts of Union explores the political relationship between...)
1998(This is the first volume in a new series of the leading i...)
2012Davis specializes in Print Culture, Romanticism, 18th- and Early 19th- Century Scottish and Irish Literature and Culture.
Davis is a member of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Modern Language Association, American Conference for Irish Studies, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, as well as of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publication.
On September 6, 1997, Leith married Robert Roy McGregor. They have three children: Ciaran Robert, Devin Birch and Nia Ann.