Research Area(s)
- Literature in premodern Scotland
Publications
Perth early modern Scotland public literature satire walking
Selection of Publications (by Year)
- Parkinson, D. "The Reformation" In A Companion to Scottish Literature, edited by Gerard Carruthers, 39-51. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2024.
- Parkinson, D. "Unwrapping Henry Adamson’s Threnodie". Scottish Literary Review 14, 2 (2022): 127-147.
- Parkinson, D. "Donne, Drummond, and The Beautie of the Remarkable Yeare". The Review of English Studies 73 (2022): 905-918.
Research
Scotland satire
My edition of Henry Adamson, The Muses Threnodie, is now being copy-edited for Boydell & Brewer. Research on the project Walking Perth’s Past has entered a new phase, with Mitacs-supported student researchers participating on campus.
Awards & Honours
- British Academy Visiting Fellowship, awarded by British Academy GBR August 2023-November 2023
- Strathmartine Trust Award, awarded by Strathmartine Trust GBR August 2023-December 2023
Documents & Links
- A Working Edition of The Beautie of the Remarkable Yeare of Grace, 1638
- Folger Symposium May 2022
- From One ‘Remarkable Yeare’ to Another: Reading The Beautie of the Remarkable Yeare of Grace, 1638
- Symposium for 17th Century Scottish Studies
- The Muses Threnodie (1638) and Perth’s Lade: crosscurrents between text and burgh
- The Muses Threnodie for Scoticonference
- Walking Perth’s Past: Memory and Place in a Seventeenth-Century Burgh
- Walking Perth’s Past: some hows and whys
- Wyntoun Workshop 2023
- ‘Yet these small fishes ov’rcome these watrie mountaines’: Salmo salar, Scottish rivers, and cultural memory