Nigel James Leask (born 1958) is a Scottish academic publishing on Romantic, Scottish, and Anglo-Indian literature, with special interest on British Empire, Orientalism, and travel writing. He has been Regius Professor of English language and literature at the University of Glasgow, since 2004.[1] [2] [3]
He won the Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year award in 2010 for his book Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late-18th Century Scotland. He is a fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Centenary Fellow of the English Association.[1]
| Nigel Leask | |
| Honorific Suffix: | FRSE FEA |
| Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Occupation: | Academic, literary critic, cultural historian |
| Education: | Edinburgh Academy |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford University of Cambridge |
| Workplaces: | University of Cambridge University of Glasgow |
| Main Interests: | Scottish literature, British Empire, Romanticism, eighteenth-century literature, Anglo-Indian literature, Orientalism |
| Notable Works: | Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late-18th Century Scotland (2010) |
He was born in 1958 and grew up in Stirlingshire. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, University of Oxford, and University of Cambridge before taking up a position of Reader in Romantic literature at Cambridge University. He is married and has two daughters.[1] [2]
In 2004, he was appointed to Regius chair of English language and literature at University of Glasgow, and is Head of the School of Critical Studies, currently from 1 August 2010.[3] He also held teaching appointments at the University of Bologna, Italy; University of Dundee, Scotland; and a visiting professorship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. He has lectured widely in India, Europe, and Americas.[1]
He published The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge’s Critical Thought, his first book, in 1988; subsequently, British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire in 1992, and many others later.[1]