# Nigel Leask > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nigel_Leask > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nigel_Leask.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Leask > Source revision: 1342653811 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Nigel James Leask** (born September 29,1958) is a Scottish academic publishing on [Romantic](/source/Romanticism), [Scottish](/source/Scottish_literature), and [Anglo-Indian](/source/Anglo-Indian) literature, with special interest on [British Empire](/source/British_Empire), [Orientalism](/source/Orientalism), and [travel writing](/source/Travel_literature). He has been [Regius Professor](/source/Regius_Professor) of [English language](/source/English_language) and [literature](/source/English_literature) at the [University of Glasgow](/source/University_of_Glasgow), since 2004.[1][2][3] He won the [Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year award](/source/Saltire_Society_Literary_Awards#Scottish_Research_Book_of_the_Year) in 2010 for his book *Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late-18th Century Scotland*. He is a fellow of [Royal Society of Edinburgh](/source/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh) and a Centenary Fellow of the [English Association](/source/English_Association).[1] ## Early life and education He was born in September 29,1958 and grew up in [Stirlingshire](/source/Stirlingshire). He was educated at [Edinburgh Academy](/source/Edinburgh_Academy), [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford), and [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) before taking up a position of [Reader](/source/Reader_(academic_rank)) in [Romantic literature](/source/Romanticism) at Cambridge University. He is married and has two daughters.[1][2] ## Career In 2004, he was appointed to [Regius chair of English language and literature](/source/Regius_Professor_of_English_Language_and_Literature,_Glasgow) at University of Glasgow, and is Head of the School of Critical Studies, currently from 1 August 2010.[3] He also held teaching appointments at the [University of Bologna](/source/University_of_Bologna), [Italy](/source/Italy); [University of Dundee](/source/University_of_Dundee), [Scotland](/source/Scotland); and a visiting professorship at the [Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)](/source/National_Autonomous_University_of_Mexico), [Mexico City](/source/Mexico_City). He has lectured widely in [India](/source/India), [Europe](/source/Europe), and [Americas](/source/Americas).[1] He published *The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge’s Critical Thought*, his first book, in 1988; subsequently, British *Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire* in 1992, and many others later.[1] ## Bibliography - *The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge’s Critical Thought*, 1988. - *British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire*, 1992. - *Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840: From an Antique Land*, 2002. - *Irish republicans and gothic Eleutherarchs: Pacific utopias in the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone and Charles Brockden Brown*, 2002. - *Darwin's Second Sun: Alexander von Humboldt and the Genesis of the Voyage of the Beagle*, 2003. - *Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic of Taste*, 2004, co-edited with David Simpson and Peter De Bolla. - *Maurice, Thomas (1754–1824), oriental scholar and librarian*, 2004. - *Burns, Wordsworth and the politics of vernacular poetry*, 2005. - *Byron and the eastern Mediterranean: Childe Harold II and the polemic of Ottoman Greece*, 2005. - *Travelling the Other Way: The travels of Mirza Abu Talib Khan (1810) and romantic Orientalism*, 2006. - *Kubla Khan and orientalism: the road to Xanadu revisited*, 2006. - *Thomas Muir and the telegraph: radical cosmopolitanism in 1790s Scotland. History Workshop Journal*, 2007. - *His Hero's Story': Dr Currie's Burns, Moore's Byron and Romantic Biography*, 2008. - *Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland*, 2009, co-edited with Phil Connel. - *Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late-18th Century Scotland*, 2010. - *Their Groves o' Sweet Myrtles': Robert Burns and the Scottish Colonial Experience*, 2012. [1][4] [5] ## Awards - Saltire Award - Scottish Research Book of the Year 2010.[1][6] ## Notes 1. ["School of Critical Studies - Prof Nigel Leask - Profile"](http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/nigelleask/). gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2012-02-14. 1. ["Robert Burns and Pastoral - About the Author(s) - Nigel Leask - Profile"](http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/BritishLiterature/18thC/?view=usa&ci=9780199572618). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2012-02-14. 1. ["Nigel Leask - Biography"](http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1633&type=P). gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2012-02-14. 1. ["Books by Nigel Leask"](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/381660.Nigel_Leask). Goodreads Inc. Retrieved 2012-02-14. 1. Connel, Philip & Nigel, Leask (May 2009). [*Romanticism and popular culture in Britain and Ireland*](https://books.google.com/books?id=LyhEfcDVGp4C). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521880121. Retrieved 2012-02-14. About the author (2009) - Nigel Leask is Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. 1. ["Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year Award 2010 Winners"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415125300/http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/4164). The Saltire Society. Archived from [the original](http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/4164) on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-14. Robert Burns & Pastoral, Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland - by Nigel Leask ## External links - [Professor Nigel Leask, Head of the University’s School of Critical Studies.](http://www.localnewsglasgow.co.uk/tag/professor-nigel-leask/) - [The University of Glasgow have been awarded the funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council - The team include English literature professors Nigel Leask.](http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Burns+brought+to+book.-a0249570755) - [Professor Nigel Leask from the University of Glasgow will visit Dundee to take part in English's Visiting Speaker Programme.](http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pressreleases/2012/february12/english.htm) - [Speakers - Nigel Leask](http://www.investigatingthearchive.org/triangular-traffic/speakers.php)[dead link] --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nigel Leask](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Leask) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Leask?action=history)). 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