Murray Pittock#
Membership Number: | 5331 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2020 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/murraypittock |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-1567-998X |
Twitter: | @P14Murray |
Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100016961560512 |
Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/murray-pittock-b7732b19/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Pro Vice-Principal (special projects), University of Glasgow
- 2010 - 2015 Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts, University of Glasgow
- 2008 - 2010 Dean of research and later Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow
- 2007 Bradley Professor of Literature at the University of Glasgow
- 2003 - 2007 Professor of Scottish and Romantic Literature, University of Manchester
- 1996 - 2003 Chair of Literature, English Studies, University of Strathclyde
- 1989 - 1996 Lecturer and later Reader, University of Edinburgh
- 1989 - 1989 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Aberdeen
- 1988 - 1990 Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford
- 1986 - 1988 College lecturer, Pembroke College, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Scottish and Irish studies
- European reception of British writers
- Poetry and politics
- Material heritage studies
- Comparative nationalisms
Honours and Awards
- 2023 The Queen’s Anniversary Prize awarded to the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, whose senior members include Professor Murray Pittock MAE FRSE
- Since 2004 Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2002 British Academy Chatterton Prize Lecturer in Poetry
- 2015 Honorary Fellow, Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- 2001 Fellow, English Association
- 1992 Fellow, Royal Historical Society
- 1992 - 1994 Royal Society of Edinburgh BP Humanities Prize
- Visiting professorships include:
- New York University (2015)
- University of South Carolina (Roy Fellow 2015)
- Trinity College Dublin (2008, Chair of Visiting Fellowships, 2011)
- Charles University, Prague (2010)
- Auburn University, Alabama (2006)
- Yale University (Senior Warnock Fellow 1998-99; 2000-2001)