Happy Birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD 275 years ago! For more info on what we've been up to on Project Fergusson as the official end of the project approaches, see our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk We've got online exhibitions, other resources, project updates and much more!

Dear Sir: Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution… —Robert Burns, Letter to a critic (1791) #WorldLetterWritingDay #C18th news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-pickl...

Gentle reminder that applications for our funded PhD on Burns and the Environment closes soon. Enquiries welcome. 👇 www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Carlos Llazza Corrales on Translating Burns into Spanish 21 May, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed. Carlos Llazza Corrales discusses his translations of Burns, & the role of literary translation in creating a Scoto-Hispanic literary space www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...

Genuinely inspiring day today launching our Scottish Literature in the Classroom project with secondary school teachers from across Scotland and the @sqanews.bsky.social. Thanks to colleagues Corey Gibson, Pip Osmond-Williams, Jen Farrar, Maureen Farrell and @dr-ron.bsky.social. More to come soon!

Like the bairns of Falkirk, ye mind naithing but mischief. —from Allan Ramsay’s A COLLECTION OF SCOTS PROVERBS (1737) WARNING: “Some amang the gentle vulgar, that are mair nice than wise, may tartle at the braidness, or, (as they name it) coarse expressions.”

I’ve written a piece for the NTS looking at forgeries in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum made by the prolific Edinburgh forger ‘Antique Smith’. Smith flooded the late-19thC collectibles market with fakes of major writers, incl. Burns, Byron, Dickens and Scott. 👇 www.nts.org.uk/collections/...

Special Issue: Burns and North America out now! As guest eds Arun Sood and Corey Andrew’s point out, Burns inspired numerous US writers and ‘came to embody the independent democratic ideals of the young Republic’. Worth reflecting on at this particular point in time. euppublishing.com/loi/burns

Hot off the press, the Spring issue of the Burns Chronicle just arrived! Well done to guest editors Arun Sood and Corey Andrews for putting together this special issue on Robert Burns and America. 👍 @edinburghup.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce that registration is now OPEN for the British Association for Romantic Studies 2025 ECR & PGR Conference, 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'. Please visit our conference website for further details and to register! barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home @bars.bsky.social

Delighted to be in Mainz to present at the launch of the ‘Teaching Scotland’ community, to see all the great work in Scottish Studies being done by our friends there, and to share some of the great teaching resources from the Association for Scottish Literature with German teachers. @asls.org.uk

Join us for the Galt Society's annual lecture in Irvine, Scotland, with Toronto's Professor Angela Esterhammer and her paper 'Discovering the Transatlantic Galt'. Tickets can be booked by contacting the Society's Secretary, Dr Craig Lamont. Full details are 👇 thejohngaltsociety.com/2025/04/03/l...

My colleague @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social and I are delighted to invite applications for a PhD studentship funded by ESRC @sgsss.bsky.social, collaborating partner Scottish Civic Trust. #history #slavery #Glasgow Full details below. #skystorians #PhDsky #academicsky www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...

ChatGPT makers train AI to write metafiction. But is it aware that it’s writing metafiction? And if not, is it still metafiction? 🤔 Discuss.😂 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

@rhonabrown.bsky.social will be giving a talk 'Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth' on Tuesday 18 March 2025, from 16:00 - 17:30 at the University of Aberdeen. The event is hybrid, for more details, see the link below: www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...

Obituary in Scots Magazine 1791 for bloke who blows £3000 inheritance (a small fortune today) on a monster pub sesh for all his mates, ends up in the poor house, and is supported in beer for life by a very grateful pub landlord. New career goal. :-D

Would you like to find out more about innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Burns studies? Get your ticket for tomorrow to find out more 👩‍💻

The timidity of Labour in government is perplexing. Closer ties to Europe urgently needed, but Lab won’t even do something positive for young people. They govern as if scared of tabloid headlines. Everyone knows Brexit was a failure and is holding UK back. Time for UK government to call it out

Robert Burns declared this ‘one of the finest songs I ever made in my life; and, besides, is composed on a young lady, positively the most beautiful, lovely woman in the world’. Wonderful from the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir. #BurnsNight #RobertBurns #Scotland

🚨PhD Opportunity 🚨 Our award winning research centre is thrilled to share the news of this exciting funded research project which will focus on Burns and the Environment 🐭🐾🌳 Find out more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Some good news in time for Burns Night. We’ve just announced a new funded PHD as part of wider research into Robert Burns and the Environment. Watch this space. @glasgowburns.bsky.social

To give you all a little extra time, the deadline for submissions to our poetry collection 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson' has been extended to Friday 28th February 2025! More information below ⤵️ robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/legacy/submi...

A wonderful morning at the #CRBSconference ! We heard about the great environmental work carried out by the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum 🌳🐭 Some new, exciting digital resources were also launched 💻 #robertburns #scottishliterature

Have you got your ticket for our upcoming conference? Our speakers include Dr Craig Lamont and Dr Jessica Reid who will be launching an exciting new digital resource. ✉️✍🏼 Tickets 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for... @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgnews.bsky.social #robertburns

Join us online 28 Feb for a series of talks on Burns and the environment.

We are excited to welcome Dr Sarah Leith to our conference on Saturday where she will be discussing forged manuscripts 📜✍🏼 If you want to come along please register before ticket sales end: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for... @n-t-s.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgnews.bsky.social

Looking forward to our annual conference in Glasgow tomorrow. 👇

Scottish poet Thomas Pringle, born 5 January 1789, emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1820. As Patrick Lenahan argues, the sonnet became his choice for capturing his experiences and personal crises, and the greater trauma of colonial appropriation and racial oppression. 👉 brill.com/display/titl...

“Is it not possible that the 19th-century novel … is becoming for some in the younger generations as much of a slog as the 18th-century novel was for many literature students of the 1990s? Might what we have identified as an attention crisis be in part a shift in priorities?”

Announcing the 2025 @glasgowburns.bsky.social Conference held at our Advanced Research Centre. Join us on 18 Jan for fresh perspectives on Scotland's National Bard. See the programme & book your place: eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-robert-burns-studies-conference-tickets-1029780480137

Landmark research project @glasgowburns.bsky.social to explore Robert Burns's connections with Freemasonry. A PhD scholar has been appointed to study how masonic networks influenced Scotland's national poet & his works like 'A Man's a Man for a' That'. ➡️ gla.ac/3CZiNb5 @paulinemackay.bsky.social

The Reid brothers back at the Barrowlands last night to play some old Jesus and Mary Chain favourites, incl. ‘Head On’, ‘Some Candy Talking’, ‘Sometimes Always’ (sans Hope Sandoval) and quite a few tracks from Darklands LP. Class

Join us in Glasgow this coming January for our annual Burns conference and a great line-up of speakers 👇

CRBS is now on Bsky! Give us a follow below for news from the Rabosphere. 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📖👍

Special deal from @edinburghup.bsky.social for St Andrews weekend! Get my book for a tenner - the cheapest it’s ever been! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Would make a great Burns Supper present! 😉 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-robert-...

Nice article on the remains of Libberton’s Wynd, Edinburgh, where poet Robert Fergusson used to drink. Disappeared with the building of George IV Bridge, but parts of it are still accessible via the NLS. @rhonabrown.bsky.social @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social

The gatekeeping loos of Ayrshire:#1. Culzean Castle does ‘Tam o Shanter’ Where do dishonest folk go? I’m bursting.

Wicker Man vibes on the 2nd leg of our Principia field trip, at Culzean Castle with our US students.

Back in Alloway today, taking our US students to the birthplace of Robert Burns. Following in the footsteps of Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S Grant and, weirdly, Jefferson Davis.

'Oysters and Aqua Vitae: Food & Drink in Fergusson’s Poems', a short piece by our project RA @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social y.social is now available to read in the latest issue of 'The Bottle Imp'. Featuring satire, gluttony, and a 'Tavern Rat' cocktail recipe (concocted with @poncarova.bsky.social!)

Inspiring time for Project Erskine at 'Unsettling Scottish Studies' conference hosted by Simon Fraser University, Vancouver - a paper on 'Global Gaelic Diaspora and Twentieth-Century Gaelic Magazines' by @poncarova.bsky.social was part of the panel 'Disrupting Spatial Geographies'. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🌐

Nice to get a wee mention here about our work with the SQA on the refresh of Scottish literary texts on the school curriculum. Resources on the new texts to follow via a project from Corey Gibson and @rhonabrown.bsky.social of Scot Lit and colleagues in Education at @uofglasgow.bsky.social

So much paper in this 1665 painting from Cornelis N. Gijsbrechts. You see an open cupboard door, as art history labelled the image, but what you also see: prints, letters, a broadside, an almanac, stored unused paper sheets, etc. It's #paperhistory all over. Let's have a 🧵, dear #skystorians

Our latest SCROLL volume, ‘Scottish literature of the South Seas’, is out now. It was a joy to work with volume editors Allison Francis and Richard Hill on this title. Well done to all involved! 👏 @rhonabrown.bsky.social @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social @poncarova.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...

Info on a current project for new friends. Alongside @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social, I'm preparing an edition of the works of Robert Fergusson (1750-74) via @leverhulme.bsky.social. 2024 is the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's death - follow us @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk

Huzzah! Our panel “‘Tyrannic man's dominion’: Earth, Environment, Ecology and Robert Burns” has been accepted for the ECSSS 25 conference on Scots and the Environment. Part of wider project on Burns & the environment from the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, UofG 🐭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@paulinemackay.bsky.social

CFP Alert! I'm very pleased to be co-organising the 24th International Congress of the French Society for Scottish Studies (SFEE) which will be held from 15th – 17th October 2025 at the University of La Rochelle on the theme of "Scotland and the Coast" sfee.fr/congres2020/

If you are an academic writing on any aspect or period of Scottish Literature, please consider submitting an article to the peer-reviewed journal SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW. Published twice a year by @scotlit.bsky.social, the journal is edited by me and the very excellent @rhonabrown.bsky.social