Project CV
Books
Leith Davis and Kevin James, eds. Shaping Jacobitism: Memory,
Culture, Networks. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Special Issues of Journals
International Review of Scottish Studies. Vol. 47 (2022):
Jacobite Special Issue. Ed. Leith Davis and Kevin James.
Book Chapters
Viccy Coltman and Georgia Vullinghs, ‘”If this be a Trifle, Consign it to the
Flames’: Object Networks in Robert Forbes's “Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript” in
Leith Davis and Kevin James, eds. Shaping Jacobitism: Memory,
Culture, Networks. 74-87. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2025.
Leith Davis, Joey Takeda, Shauna Irani, Dana Lai, Emma Trotter and Julianna
Wagar, “A New Approach to Old Networks: Applying Digital Humanities Methodologies
to Analyse Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript” in Leith Davis and
Kevin James, eds. Shaping Jacobitism: Memory, Culture,
Networks. 237-248. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Publications in Refereed Journals
Leith Davis, “A Piece of History the Most Remarkable &and Interesting That
Ever Happened in Any Age or Country”: 'The Lyon in Mourning' Manuscript of Robert
Forbes" Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1):
159–182
Leith Davis, “Introduction: New Perspectives on ‘The Lyon in Mourning,’” International Review of Scottish Studies. International Review of Scottish Studies. Vol. 47 (2022):
1-22. Jacobite Special Issue. Ed. Leith Davis and Kevin James.
Robert Betteridge, Collecting, and Not Collecting: Jacobite Material at the Advocates Library and
National Library of Scotland. International Review of
Scottish Studies. International Review of Scottish Studies. Vol. 47
(2022): 23-34. Jacobite
Special Issue. Ed. Leith Davis and Kevin James.
Harry Lewis, The
“Lyon in Mourning”: Robert Forbes’s Papers and Early Jacobite Studies,
1775–1926. International Review of Scottish
Studies. International Review of Scottish Studies. Vol. 47
(2022): 35-57. Jacobite
Special Issue. Ed. Leith Davis and Kevin James.
Ralph McLean, “The
Lyon in Mourning” at the National Library of Scotland.
International Review of Scottish Studies. Vol. 47
(2022): 58-71. Jacobite
Special Issue. Ed. Leith Davis and Kevin James.
Joey Takeda, “The
Digital “Lyon in Mourning,”
International Review of Scottish Studies. Vol. 47
(2022): 72-76. Jacobite
Special Issue. Ed. Leith Davis and Kevin James.
Taylor Breckles, Leith Davis, Shauna Irani, Emma Trotter and Julianna Wagar,
"'Female Rebels': Highlighting Women’s Voices in Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in
Mourning,’", International Review of Scottish
Studies. International Review of Scottish Studies. Vol. 47 (2022):
77-92. Jacobite Special Issue. Ed. Leith Davis and Kevin James.
Shauna Irani and Emma Trotter, “Redeeming the Land of Forgetfulness”: Trauma and Writing in the “Lyon in
Mourning,”
International Review of Scottish Studies. International Review of Scottish Studies. Vol. 47 (2022):
93-101. Jacobite Special Issue. Ed. Leith Davis and Kevin James.
Digital Publications
"Memorialising Through Memoirs: Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’
Manuscript," The Bottle Imp Issue 34 (2024) https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/
Public Talks
Leith Davis, “Jacobitism, Cultural Memory and Robert Forbes's "The Lyon in
Mourning" Manuscript.” Canadian-Scottish Studies Forum, U of McGill, Montreal, May
14, 2025
Leith Davis, “Re-collecting Jacobites: Robert Forbes’ ‘The Lyon in Mourning’
and Aberdonian Connections.” Friends of Aberdeen University Library Public Talk,
University of Aberdeen, Feb. 15, 2025.
Leith Davis, “Jacobitism and Cultural Memory.” Chicago Scottish American
History Forum, Feb. 8, 2025. Online.
Leith Davis, "Before Outlander: Jacobite Communities in Eighteenth-Century
Scotland.” Casper College Humanities Festival, Casper, Wyoming.
Leith Davis, Shauna Irani, and Emma Trotter, “The Last of the Jacobites:
Culloden and Its Aftermath.” Cultural Tent, 2023 British Columbia
Highland Games, Coquitlam, June 17, 2023.
Leith Davis, “The Lyon in Mourning Manuscript of Robert Forbes." Jacobites,
Jacobins and Outlanders Public Outreach Event, Centre for Scottish Studies,
University of Guelph, August 28, 2022.
Leith Davis, Emma Trotter, Shauna Irani, and Julianna Wagar, “Female Rebels:
Women of the 1745 Jacobite Rising.” ScotFestBC Cultural Tent,
2022 British Columbia Highland Games, Coquitlam, June 18, 2022.
Keynote Talks/Presentations
Shauna Judith Irani, “The Lyon in Mourning Project and Collaboration with SFU’s
Digital Humanities Innovation Lab.” 8th Annual SFU Retirees Luncheon, W.A.C.
Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, May 4, 2023.
Leith Davis, “Jacobitism and Gender.” University of Guelph's Library's Special
exhibition "Truth or Treason? Sources for the Study of the Jacobites.".
(online)
Leith Davis, "Before Outlander: Networking Jacobites in Eighteenth-Century
Scotland and the Diaspora." University of Wyoming, Laramie.
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ottawa, October 29, 2022.
“Mediating Memory and Modernity in the 1745-46 Rising: Networking
Jacobites,”
Invited Talks
Leith Davis, Joey Takeda and Julianna Wagar, "Encoding Entities in 'The Lyon in
Mourning' Manuscript" “Encoding Entities: People, Organizations, Time, and Place,
Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre. Part 2 of the "TEI Summer Series: A
series on justice-oriented critical editing". July 8, 2025.
Leith Davis, “Unsettling Empire From Within: Jacobitism, Cultural Memory and
Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon and Mourning’ Manuscript.” Sources from the Margins:
Reflections on the Empire in Ireland, Scotland and Wales (1530s-1790s), U of
Aarhus, DK, April 26, 2025.
Leith Davis, “Cultural Memory, Gender and Jacobite Networks in Post-Culloden
Britain: Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript.” U of California
Berkeley, April 3, 2025.
Leith Davis, "Old Networks, New Media: ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Digital
Humanities Project and Robert Forbes's Jacobite World," Research Institute for
Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen (Dec. 7, 2023).
Leith Davis, Shauna Irani, Emma Trotter, Nawal Musleh-Motut, Megan Donahue, and
Betty Schellenberg, “How Do You DH? Digital Humanities in Teaching and Research.”
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, May 24, 2023.
Leith Davis and Julianna Wagar, “Women and/in Jacobite Media Networks: A
Digital Humanities Investigation of Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’
Manuscript." Women, Literary Networks and Media Cultures Conference, Simon Fraser
University, May 11-12, 2023.
Conferences Organized
“Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present,” University of Guelph (Aug. 27-28,
2022) Co-organizers: Leith Davis and Kevin James.
“New Perspectives on 'The Lyon in Mourning,'” Institute for Advanced Studies of
the Humanities, Edinburgh University (June 29-30, 2022). Organizer: Leith
Davis
Roundtable Panels at Conferences
Leith Davis, Shauna Irani, Pam Perkins, Betty Schellenberg, and Julianna Wagar,
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Oct. 18-22, 2023.
“Matters and Materials of Political Life: Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the
Present”
Papers Presented at Conferences
Leith Davis, “‘Fugitive Sightings’: Making Jacobite Women Visible in “The Lyon
in Mourning” Manuscript Project,” Writing Jacobitism Conference, University of
Aberdeen, Feb. 15, 2025.
Leith Davis, “Old Manuscripts and New Media: Digitizing ‘The Lyon in Mourning’
Manuscript.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto,
April 4-6.
Joey Takeda, Leith Davis, and the Lyon in Mourning Team. “Building Networks:
The Lyon in Mourning Project and Institutional Collaborations.” Reviewing,
Revising, and Refining Open Social Scholarship: An Implementing New Knowledge
Environments (INKE) Partnership Gathering. Victoria, BC, Canada. January 17,
2023.
Julianna Wagar, "Reclaiming Flora MacDonald: Replacing Romantic Remediations of
Flora MacDonald with Robert Forbes' 'The Lyon in Mourning.'" British Association for Romantic Studies annual conference. Edinburgh,
UK. June 15, 2023.
Leith Davis, “Matters and Materials of Political Life: Shaping Jacobitism,
1688-1820.” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal,
Quebec.
Leith Davis, Taylor Breckles, Shauna Irani, Emma Trotter, Julianna Wagar. "The
Beta Version of the Lyon in Mourning Digital Humanities Project.” "Networking
Jacobites, 1688 to the Present," University of Guelph (Aug. 27-28, 2022).
Wagar, Julianna and McCue, Kirsteen. "Jacobite Songs and Singing Jacobites."
Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present Symposium. Guelph, ON. Aug. 28,
2022.
Leith Davis, “‘Networking Jacobites: A Digital Humanities Project on Robert
Forbes’s Lyon in Mourning Manuscript,” Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies
Society, July 27-29, 2022. University of Liverpool. Online.
Leith Davis, “Reframing Jacobitism Through Book History and Digital
Humanities,” 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Prague, June 22-26.
Online.
Leith Davis, “Jacobite Cultural Memory and Intermediality: Robert Forbes’s The
Lyon in Mourning Manuscript,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Winnipeg (Oct. 13-19, 2021). Online.
Posters
Leith Davis, Joey Takeda, Jasmyn Bojakli, Taylor Breckles, Alyssa Bridgman, and
Kaitlyn MacInnis. NextGen Meets OldGen: Encoding an Eighteenth-Century Metadata
Project. Poster session, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) 2021 Conference,
University of Newcastle, virtual, October 26, 2021. https://doi.org/
Podcasts
"Dr. Leith Davis on The Lyon in Mourning," Tea. Toast. &and Trivia podcast,
season 3, episode 15, April 10, 2021. https://teatoasttrivia.ca/
“Delivering Babies, Hunting Jacobites,” Shauna Irani and Susan Morrison. Time Travels podcast, BBC Radio Scotland, January 29, 2023.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/
“Julianna Wagar on the 1745 Rebellion and The Lyon in Mourning Project.” Tea, Toast, and Trivia podcast, season 5, episode 12, June 5,
2023. https://teatoasttrivia.ca/