Paul Barnaby
Acquisition and Scottish Literary Collections Curator
- Centre for Research Collections
- Library and University Collections
- Information Services
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 2881
- Email: paul.barnaby@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
-
Centre for Research Collections
Edinburgh University Library
George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- 0131 650 2881
Availability
Working Hours:
Tuesday: 9-1
Wednesday: 9-5
Thursday: 9-5
Friday: 9-5
Background
I work as Acquisition and Scottish Literary Collections Curator at Edinburgh University Library where I also maintain the Walter Scott Digital Archive. I have previously worked as main researcher for the Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT) at the National Library of Scotland and as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe project at the University of London.
Qualifications
PhD in Italian (Univerity of Italian, 1997)
Research summary
My research interests include:
- The translation and global reception of Scottish literature with particular emphasis on Sir Walter Scott
- Adaptation studies, focusing, in particular, on the works of Sir Walter Scott, Hugh MacDiarmid, George Mackay Brown, and Sydney Goodsir Smith
- The Italian Reception of French Naturalism with particular emphasis on Luigi Capuana
Research activities
- European Society for the Study of English Conference 2022 to
- Curious, the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s summer events programme
- The Third World Congress of Scottish Literatures to
- Scott at 250: History, Landscape, Environment to
- 11th International Walter Scott Conference to
- Meeting of the Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts
- Covenanters
- John Buchan and the First World War
- Gender Stereotypes in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Authorship and Appropriation
- CILIPS 2015 Autumn Gathering
- Place and Space in Scottish Literature and Culture
- Walter Scott et la France
- Connected Collections
- Sidonius, his Words, and his World: An International Conference to
- Activating the Archive, 10th International Scott Conference to
- Gathering Intelligence: The Life and Work of Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson
- William Soutar and Hugh MacDiarmid: A Friendship Betrayed?
- Waverley at 200
- 2013 BAAHE Annual Conference
Project activity
Current projects include:
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Edinburgh University’s Library and Research Collections
(4 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Diaries and Letters
(8 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
The Merrie Life and Dowie Death of Colickie Meg: An Unpublished Carotidian Drama
(20 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426498_014
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
The Young Person's Sir Walter: Scott and the Nineteenth-Century Child Reader
(22 pages)
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Chapter (Published) -
From Dramatic Space to Narrative Place: George Mackay Brown's 'Time in a Red Coat'
(21 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12645-2_4
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
The Young Person’s Sir Walter: Scott and the Nineteenth-Century Child Reader
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Chapter (Published) -
"Un medico filosofo": The Figure of the Doctor in Capuana's "Giacinta"
(16 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Sidonius in Clubland: John Buchan's 'The Wind in the Portico'
(19 pages)
In:
Classical Receptions Journal, vol. 9, pp. 507–526
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clx007
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Superuomini e no: Dannunzian hypotexts in Capuana’s Rassegnazione
In:
Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, vol. 51, pp. 432–451
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0014585817698402
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Review of: Écrire la frontière: Walter Scott ou les chemins de l’errance, by Céline Sabiron
(4 pages)
In:
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 29, pp. 686-689
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.29.4.686
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Scottish Poetry as World Poetry
(12 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Scottish Theatre Archives at Edinburgh University Library
(12 pages)
In:
International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen, vol. 6, pp. 87-99
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Review of: British Literature and Print Culture, ed. Sandro Jung
In:
Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, vol. 9, pp. 117-21
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Review of: The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Volume 2, Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800, ed. Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall.
In:
Studies in Hogg and his World, vol. 24, pp. 116-121
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Restoration Politics and Sentimental Poetics in A.-J.-B. Defauconpret’s Translations of Sir Walter Scott
(23 pages)
In:
Translation and Literature, vol. 20, pp. 6-28
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)