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Fri, Sep 18th 2020 at 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm

Speaker: Professor Gerard Carruthers - “Burns at Ellisland”


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Professor Gerard Carruthers FRSE is Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is Principal Investigator for the major AHRC-funded project 'Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century', General Editor of the new Oxford Collected Works of Robert Burns and Co-Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Gerard is Convener of the 'Burns Scotland' partnership (the National Burns Collection) and is the university's representative on the Joint Abbotsford Advisory Committee guiding research into the library of Walter Scott.

Gerard is Secretary of the Robert Burns Ellisland Trust.

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