Davis, Leith 1960–

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Davis, Leith 1960–

PERSONAL:

Born August 31, 1960, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; daughter of Eric (a professor of civil engineering) and Nancy Constance (a nurse) Davis; married Robert Roy McGregor, September 6, 1997; children: Ciaran Robert, Devin Birch, Nia Ann. Education: University of Saskatchewan, B.A. (with honors), 1983; University of California, Berkeley, M.A., 1988, Ph.D., 1990.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of English, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada. E-mail—leith@sfu.ca.

CAREER:

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, assistant professor, 1990-99, associate professor, 1999-2005, professor of English, 2005—.

MEMBER:

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Modern Language Association of America, American Conference for Irish Studies, Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (chair of Irish Caucus, 1999-2000), Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publication.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Research fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 1997; recipient of numerous grants.

WRITINGS:

Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 1998.

(Editor, with Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen) Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2004.

Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1724-1874, University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN), 2005.

Contributor to books, including Robert Burns, edited by Carol McGuirk, G.K. Hall (New York, NY), 1998. Contributor of articles and reviews to journals, including Studies in English Literature, Studies in Romanticism, English Studies in Canada, Eighteenth-Century Life, ARIEL: Review of International English Literature, and Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.