Dr Sheila Kidd
- Senior Lecturer (Celtic & Gaelic)
telephone:
01413305425
email:
Sheila.Kidd@glasgow.ac.uk
R401 Level 4, Celtic & Gaelic, 3 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007Research interests
Gu ruige seo, tha an rannsachadh agam air dèiligeadh ri litreachas Gàidhlig eadar an 18mh agus an 20mh linn, le fòcas air rosg ann an irisean agus colbhan Gàidhlig phàipearan-naidheachd. Tha ùidh agam ann an taobhan sòisealta agus eachdraidheil nan teascaichean seo agus anns na h-irisean fhèin, leithid cheistean a’ buntainn ri litearrachd agus an ceangal ri beul-aithris. A bharrachd air sin, tha mi air obair a dhèanamh air litreachas nan eilthireach, an dà chùid ann an Alba agus ann an dùthchannan eile (Canada, Astràila, Sealann Nuadh, na h-Innseachan an Iar agus na h-Innseachan an Ear). O chionn ghoirid, tha mi air a bhith rannsachadh mar a chleachdadh Gàidhlig air a’ Ghàidhealtachd san 19mh linn, mar eisimpleir, a’ sgrùdadh sanasan-obrach a bha a’ sireadh daoine le Gàidhlig; a’ coimhead air àite na Gàidhlig ann an taighean-caothaich agus am measg an fheadhainn a bha ag obair leis na bochd; agus mar a chleachdadh Gàidhlig air beulaibh coimiseanan an riaghaltais anns na deicheadan mu dheireadh den an linn. Tha mi ag amas air dealbh nas coileanta a chruthachadh de chleachdadh na Gàidhlig agus seo mar adhbhar strì ann an cuid de shuidheachaidhean; agus tron a seo a bhith a’ soilleireachadh mar a bha cleachdadh cànain a’ buntainn ri dàimhean sòisealta agus ri cumhachd ann an Gàidhealtachd na 19mh linn.
Pròiseactan rannsachaidh air a bheil mi ag obair:
• cleachdadh cànain air a’ Ghàidhealtachd san 19mh linn
• dàin Fhearchair D. MhicDhòmhnaill, Loch Aillse agus Sealann Nuadh
• òrain agus bàrdachd le boireannaich ann am pàipearan-naidheachd na 19mh linn
My research to date has dealt with Gaelic literature from the 18th to the 20th century with a particular focus on Gaelic prose in periodicals and newspaper columns. I am particularly interested in the social and historical dimensions of these texts and of the publications themselves, including questions relating to orality and literacy. I have also worked on literature of the Highland diaspora within Scotland and abroad (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies and the East Indies). More recently I have been working on language use in the nineteenth-century Highlands, for example, examining job advertisements seeking Gaelic speakers; considering the use of Gaelic in lunatic asylums and in interactions with those in receipt of support from parochial boards; and the use of Gaelic in evidence given to government inquiries in the later nineteenth century. In studying this often-contested ground of the language of communication I aim to produce a nuanced picture of language contact and provide a deeper understanding of social relations and dynamics of power in the nineteenth-century Highlands.
Current research projects include:
• language use in the nineteenth-century Highlands
• the compositions of Lochalsh and New Zealand poet, Farquhar D. MacDonell
• the songs and poetry of women in the later nineteenth-century press
Grants
- Wellcome Trust, Humanities and Social Science Small Grant: The Gaelic language and medical provision in the 19th-century Scottish Highlands, 2016.
Supervision
Chuirinn fàilte air ceistean bho dhaoine aig a bheil ùidh ann an ceuman rannsachaidh a dhèanamh air litreachas, cultar agus eachdraidh shòisealta nan Gàidheal bhon 18mh linn chun an 20mh linn, neo air coimhearsnachdan Gàidhlig air a’ Ghalltachd agus thall thairis.
I would welcome enquiries from prospective students interested in Gaelic literature and culture from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and in the social history of the Highlands or Gaelic communities in the Lowlands and abroad.
Na h-iar-cheumnaich a tha mi a’ stiùireadh | Current postgraduate supervision:
- Olivia Klee (University of Aberdeen), ‘Emigration Propaganda in Periodicals and Newspapers Aimed at Scottish Gaels, 1803–1914’, co-supervisor with Professor Marjory Harper.
- Wright, Grace
Positioning Women’s Agency in Land Agitation and Protest in the Scottish Highlands and Islands 1847-1897
Iar-cheumnaich a tha deiseil | Completed theses:
- Ruairidh MacIver, ‘The Gaelic Poet and the British Military Experience, 1756−1856’, http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30582/ PhD (2018), primary supervisor with Dr Michel Byrne.
- Tòmas MacAilpein, ‘ Cultar agus an comann-sòisealta ann an Ìle, mu 1890 gu 1960’ http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8257/ PhD (2017), co-supervisor with Dr Martin MacGregor.
- Aonghas MacLeòid, ‘An dàn fada Gàidhealach – 1900-1950: sgrùdadh ioma-chuspaireil air corpas air dìochuimhne’ (2014), second supervisor with Dr Michel Byrne.
- Coinneach MacLean, ‘The Tourist Gaze on Gaelic Scotland’ PhD (2014), second supervisor with Professor Alison Phipps, Education.
- Linda MacLeod, ‘Òrain agus dàin neo-fhoillsichte aig bàird agus bana-bhàird a’ Bhaile Shear thairis air an 19mh linn agus an 20mh linn, an dualchas a chaidh leotha agus an àite air an eilean’ MPhil by Research (2011)
- Joina NicDhòmhnaill, ‘Niall Moireasdan agus Niall Macdhòmhnaill: beath-eachdraidh agus òrain’ MPhil by Research (2000)
Teaching
’S e na prìomh dhleastanasan-teagaisg agam | My main teaching responsibilities:
Fo-cheumnach | Undergraduate
- Gaelic 1 Beginners – priomh òraidiche | main tutor
- Gaelic 2 Advanced – teacsaichean rosg | prose texts
- An 19mh linn tro Shùilean nan Gàidheal, Cùrsa Urramach | Honours course
- Guth nan Eilthireach: Litreachas Gàidhlig san t-Saoghal Ùr, Cùrsa Urramach | Honours course
- Fèin-Eachdraidh ann an Gàidhlig, Cùrsa Urramach | Honours course
- An Leabhar Gàidhlig 1567–1914 – Cùrsa Urramach | Honours course
- Co-òrdanaiche Cùrsaichean Urramach ann an Celtis is Gàidhlig | Honours Convenor in Celtic and Gaelic
Iar-cheumnach | Postgraduate
- Culture, Politics and Society in the Highland Clearances, còmhla ri | co-taught with Dr Martin MacGregor, History
Additional information
- Ceannard Comann Litreachas Gàidhlig na h-Alba | President of the Scottish Gaelic Texts Society
