Daniel Cook (academic)
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Daniel Cook | |
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| Born | 21 January 1981 Great Yarmouth, England |
| Occupation | Reader in English (University of Dundee) |
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Daniel Cook (born 21 January 1981) is a university lecturer, scholar and author working primarily on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. He has written and edited numerous books and journal articles on Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, and Mary Shelley, among other authors of the period. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Education and career[edit]
Cook completed his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge in 2008 with a thesis on the reception history of the poet and forger Thomas Chatterton. He then joined the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift as a postdoctoral researcher. Then he joined the University of Bristol as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, before heading to the University of Wisconsin, Madison as a Visiting Professor. In 2012, he returned to the UK to take up a permanent academic position at the University of Dundee. In that time he has received visiting fellowships at Harvard and Oxford. In addition to his published scholarship, Cook regularly contributes to print and radio media, particularly the BBC and The Conversation. This includes a BBC Scotland special on Mary Shelley's life in Dundee.[1]
Miscellaneous[edit]
Cook has served on the executive committees of academic societies, including the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature (since 2013), the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2007-2017), the British Association for Romantic Studies (since 2007), and The Thomas Chatterton Society (since 2005), and on the editorial board of The Literary Encyclopedia.[2]
Publications[edit]
Monographs[edit]
- Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
- Reading Swift's Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- Walter Scott and Short Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Essay Collections[edit]
- Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850 (with Amy Culley) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
- The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (with Nicholas Seager) (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- Reworking Walter Scott (with Lucy Wood) (Studies in Scottish Literature, 2018)
Editions[edit]
- The Lives of Jonathan Swift Routledge, 2011)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The Dundee Edition (UniVerse, 2018)
- James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (UniVerse, 2020)
- Walter Scott, Five Short Stories (UniVerse, 2021)
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