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Professor Anne McKim

Qualifications: MA Dundee, MA Manitoba, PhD Edinburgh Email: mckim@waikato.ac.nz Location: I3.14 Contact: +64 7 838 4466 ext. 8553

Research Interests:

Born in Glasgow and educated in Scotland and Canada, her main research interests and publications are in British Literature, particularly Medieval Studies and Eighteenth-Century Literature. Her books include critical editions of 'Hary's Wallace' and 'The Laste Epistle of Cresseid', and a study of Daniel Defoe in Scotland. She has a book forthcoming on early eighteenth-century travellers' accounts of Scotland. Current and upcoming research projects combine interests in a range of autobiographical writings, including memoirs, diaries, letters and travel journals.

Possible research supervision areas: late medieval literature, medievalism, rise of the novel, early modern journalism, travel writing.

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Books:

Authored:
Representing Scotland: Travellers’ Tales 1700-1760. Edwin Mellen Press, forthcoming, 2009.
Daniel Defoe and Scotland: A Spy Among Us. Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press. 2006.

Edited (Scholarly editions):
Blind Harry, The Wallace. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2003.
Selections from Hary’s Wallace. An annotated edition. New York: Medieval Texts Series, 2003.

Book Chapters:
“In the Traces of the Rossdhu Book of Hours”. Migrations: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in New Zealand ed. Stephanie Hollis and Alexandra Barratt. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp.202-16.
The Testament of Cresseid and Orpheus and Eurydice: Robert Henryson's 'fine poeticall way' in Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry ed. Priscilla Bawcutt and J. Hadley-Williams. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2006, pp.105-117.
Adapting News and Making History: Defoe's news discourse and the "History of the Union" in News Discourse in Early Modern Britain ed. Nicholas Brownlees, Linguistics Insights series. Peter Lang, 2006, pp. 255-72 .
"Elizabeth Dunbar" in Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women ed. Elizabeth Ewan et al. Edinburgh University Press, 2006, pp.105-6.
"Henryson's use of the conjunctive phrase with that in the Morall Fabillis" Older Scots Literature ed. Sally Mapstone. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers. 2005, pp. 139-47.
"Scottish National Heroes and the Limits of Violence" in Violence in Medieval Society ed. Mark Meyerson and Daniel Thiery. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2004 (2003), pp. 156-72.
"The European Tragedy of Cresseid: The Scottish Response", in The European Sun. Ed. Graham D. Caie, Kenneth Simpson and Roderick Lyall. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2002, 211-20.

Articles in a Refereed Journal:
“War of Words: Daniel Defoe and the 1707 Union”. Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, Spring, 2008, 29-46.