Pauline Anne Gray
Pauline Anne Gray
Pauline Anne Gray completed her undergraduate degree in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow in 2004. Following this she was awarded an AHRB scholarship to undertake her M.Phil (research) degree, entitled 'The Correspondence of Robert Burns and 'Clarinda': Man and Woman of Feeling', and then her PhD which investigates 'Bawdry, Gender and the Body in the Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns'. She is now in her third year of PhD research.
Pauline has been granted AHRC travel awards which have allowed her to work with original manuscript materials at two of the best Burns collections in the world; the G. Ross Roy collection at the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, and The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia.
Just last year Pauline had the privilege of speaking at the 'Scottish Romanticism in World Literatures' conference at UC Berkeley, California, and on the 14th January 2007 she was featured in the Sunday Herald for her work re-examining women in the life and work of Robert Burns. On the 25th January 2008, Pauline appeared as a guest speaker on the BBC2 Scotland programme, ‘Robert Burns’ World Tour of Scotland’.
Pauline has worked on a number of academic projects including the James Currie Project, directed by Dr Gerry Carruthers, and has recently become a research assistant for the AHRC-supported Global Burns Network, directed by Professor Murray Pittock and supported by the Centre for Robert Burns Studies which is based in the Department of Scottish Literature.
Publications:
'Burns's 'O Saw Ye My Maggie'?' in The Burns Chronicle, Spring 2005, (Kilmarnock, 2005), pp. 11-14.
‘Prudes, Pirates and Bills of Suspension: The Correspondence of Burns and Clarinda’ in The Burns Chronicle, Autumn 2007, (Kilmarnock, 2007), pp.9-13.
Recent and Upcoming Conference Papers:
'Robert Burns and Women: Birth, Marriage, Death, Confusion!’, at Birth, Marriage, Death, University of Stirling, 22nd May 2005.
'Prudes, Pirates, and Bills of Suspension: The Correspondence of Burns and 'Clarinda'', at Scottish Romanticism in World Literatures, UC Berkeley, California, US, 9th September 2006.
‘Robert Burns and Gender: Is a woman a woman for a’ that?’, at Crosscurrents, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 18th-20th April 2008.