Leith Davis
Dr. Leith Davis (she, her) is a Professor in the Department of English and the Director of the Research Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University. She is a co-founder of the Department of English's MA with Specialization in Print Culture. Her areas of specialization include:
literature of the long eighteenth century
media history
cultural memory
Scottish and Irish literature and culture
She is the author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1832 (Stanford UP, 1998); Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish Identity, 1724-1874 (U of Notre Dame Press, 2005); and Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising (Cambridge UP, 2022) as well as co-editor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge UP, 2004); Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture (Ashgate, 2012); The International Companion to the Scottish Literatures of the Long Eighteenth Century (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2021); and Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks. She is also the PI of the Digital Humanities project Reconstructing Early Circus: Entertainments at Astley's Amphitheatre, 1768-1833.