Centre for Scottish Studies
Leith Davis receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Professor Leith Davis has been recognized with a prestigious award for her outstanding contributions to 18th-century Scottish Studies over the course of her career.
Since its inception in 1987, the has only presented this award 18 times, with Davis being only the fourth female recipient.
鈥淚'm very honoured to be recognized with this award from an international organization that has been so important to me throughout my career,鈥� says Davis.
She was presented with the award at the ECSSS鈥� annual conference, held in Stirling, Scotland by professor Michael Brown, Co-Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
In his remarks, Brown praised Davis鈥� body of work, highlighting her first book, Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830 (1998) and her most recent books, and (co-edited by Kevin J. James), published earlier this year.
鈥淗er work has frequently moved beyond the confines of the stock materials of literary critics鈥攏ovels, poems and plays鈥攐r the manuscript deposits and bureaucratic records beloved of historians鈥攖o take in oral accounts, music and song,鈥� says Brown.
He also commended Davis鈥檚 鈥渞emarkable鈥� Digital Humanities project on "The Lyon in Mourning" manuscript by Robert Forbes, applauding her efforts to remediate 鈥渢he discourses of the Jacobite world for our own media saturated age.鈥�