Dr Craig Lamont

Lecturer in Scottish Studies (Scottish Literature)

email: CraigRonald.Lamont@glasgow.ac.uk

207, 7 University Gardens, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8QH

Biography

Craig Lamont is a graduate of the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, with a diverse background in Creative Writing, English Literature, and Scottish Literature. His AHRC-funded PhD, ‘Georgian Glasgow: the city remembered through literature, objects, and cultural memory theory’ (2015), was an interdisciplinary body of work central to a collaboration between the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Life, involving the major exhibition How Glasgow Flourished: 1714-1837 at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in 2014. It won the 2016 Ross Roy Medal for the best PhD relating to Scottish Literature. His debut monograph, The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow, was published in 2021 by Edinburgh University Press. Besides writing short fiction, Craig has also been commissioned as a historian by the National Trust for Scotland and Barclays Bank.

Craig’s postdoctoral work ranges from web development to bibliography in the realms of Allan Ramsay, bawrdy chapbooks, and Robert Burns, beginning in 2014 with the ‘Bawdry & Scottish Chapbooks’ project (PI: Dr. Pauline Mackay). The following year Craig joined Prof. Murray Pittock’s team in the Royal Society of Edinburgh funded project ‘Allan Ramsay and Edinburgh in the First Age of Enlightenment.’ In this project, Craig co-authored an interactive map, ‘Edinburgh’s Enlightenment 1680-1750’ with the PI. In 2015-16 Craig worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, compiling a new bibliography of Robert Burns editions from 1786 to 1802. This is part of the AHRC-funded project Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century (PI: Prof. Gerard Carruthers), on which Craig worked as a research associate from 2017. From January 2018-August 2022, Craig became the lead research associate in another AHRC-funded project, The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay (PI: Prof. Murray Pittock). From 2017-2022, Craig served as the Secretary of the Association for Scottish Literature.

As of 5 September 2022, Craig is Lecturer in Scottish Studies, based in Scottish Literature but working more widely in the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies. Craig is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of The John Galt Society.

Within the University, Craig also leads the Memory Lab alongside colleagues from Education and Psychology & Neuroscience.

Research interests

Scottish literature and history generally, but especially coinciding with:

Memory Studies, especially Cultural Memory
The Scottish Enlightenment
Print culture, book history, and bibliography
The social history of Scotland
Transatlantic slavery
Cities

Figures I work on extensively include:

Allan Ramsay (1694-1758)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
John Galt (1779-1839)
Dorothy K. Haynes (1918-1987)

Publications

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Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015

Number of items: 31.

2024

Lamont, C.(Ed.) (2024) The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes. [Scholarly Editions]

Haynes, D. K. and Lamont, C. (2024) Haste Ye Back. [Scholarly Editions]

Brown, R. and Lamont, C.(Eds.) (2024) The Prose of Allan Ramsay. [Scholarly Editions]

Lamont, C. (2024) Burns in the digital age. In: Carruthers, G. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 522-536. ISBN 9780198846246 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198846246.013.39)

Lamont, C. (2024) Scottish literature in the 21st century and the new media. In: Carruthers, G. (ed.) A Companion to Scottish Literature. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 363-375. ISBN 9781119651444 (doi: 10.1002/9781119651550.ch29)

2023

Lamont, C. (2023) Cultural memory and nationalism at Scotland's international exhibitions: 1886–1938. Studies on National Movements, 12(1), pp. 71-100. (doi: 10.21825/snm.90192)

Lamont, C. (2023) ‘Class’d With Tasso And Guarini’: Allan Ramsay’s The Gentle Shepherd. Bottle Imp, 33,

Lamont, C. (2023) Robert Burns and Ferenc Puskás: a note on poetry, football and cultural memory. Burns Chronicle, 132(2), pp. 235-239. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2023.0090)

Lamont, C. and Robertson-Kirkland, B. (2023) The Poetry and Drama of Allan Ramsay. Series: Scotnotes (44). Association for Scottish Literatures: Glasgow. ISBN 9781906841553

2022

Carruthers, G. , Gallagher, K. T., Lamont, C. and Smith, G. (Eds.) (2022) 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910900833

Lamont, C. (2022) Remembering RLS: Stevenson & Cultural Memory. Bottle Imp, 2022(Sup8A),

Editors:, , Pittock, M. , Brown, R. , McGuinness, D. , Newman, S., Szechi, D., Lamont, C. , Robertson-Kirkland, B. E. and Caudle, J. J. (2022) Collected Works of Allan Ramsay. [Website]

2021

Lamont, C. (2021) Stewart & Meikle's The Poetical Miscellany (1800): a problematic Glasgow ‘edition’ of Robert Burns. Burns Chronicle, 130(1), pp. 59-70. (doi: 10.3366/burns.2021.0006)

Lamont, C. (2021) The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474443272

2020

Pittock, M. , Lamont, C. , Scott, P. and Jarrells, T. (Eds.) (2020) Allan Ramsay's Future. 46(2) [Edited Journal]

Lamont, C. (2020) 'Some Few Miles from Edinburgh': commemorating the scenes of The Gentle Shepherd in Ramsay Country. Studies in Scottish Literature, 46(2), pp. 40-60.

2018

Lamont, C. (2018) Urban history and public life on the Lawnmarket, 1707-1934. In: Gladstone's Land (Lawnmarket, Edinburgh): Social History, Decorative Schemes and Furnishings. National Trust for Scotland, pp. 51-86.

Lamont, C. (2018) Urban history and public life on the Lawnmarket, c. 1560-1707. In: Gladstone's Land (Lawnmarket, Edinburgh): Social History, Decorative Schemes and Furnishings. National Trust for Scotland: Edinburgh, pp. 23-50.

Lamont, C. (2018) Allan Ramsay & Edinburgh: commemoration in the city of forgetting. Scottish Literary Review, 10(1), pp. 117-137.

Lamont, C. (2018) Cultivating the classics “in a cold climate”: the Foulis Press & Academy in Glasgow. Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 13, pp. 45-66.

2017

Lamont, C. (2017) Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting (1993). Studies in Scottish Literature, 43(2), pp. 213-215.

Lamont, C. and Weir, D. (2017) 'Sir, Yours this moment I unseal': a Burns manuscript rediscovered in Paisley. Scottish Literary Review, 9(2), pp. 85-95.

Lamont, C. R. (2017) Finding Galt in Glasgow. In: Carruthers, G. and Kidd, C. (eds.) The International Companion to John Galt. Scottish Literature International: Glasgow, pp. 34-43. ISBN 9781908980274

Lamont, C. R. (2017) A Bibliography of Robert Burns for the 21st Century: 1786-1802. [Website]

Lamont, C. (2017) Towards a new bibliography of Robert Burns. Studies in Scottish Literature, 43(2), pp. 303-308.