Craig, Cairns

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Name (Latin)
Craig, Cairns
Other forms of name
Craig, Cairns (Robert Cairns), 1949-
Craig, Robert Cairns, 1949-
Date of birth
1949-02-16
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 46785216
Wikidata: Q15845025
Library of congress: n 81054633
Sources of Information
  • Wikipedia, viewed September 19, 2025(Cairns, Craig; Robert Cairns Craig, OBE FRSE FBA (born 16 February 1949) is a Scottish literary scholar, specialising in Scottish and modernist literature; has been Glucksman professor of Irish and Scottish studies at the University of Aberdeen since 2005)
  • His Yeats, Eliot, Pound, and the politics of poetry, 1981:CIP galley t.p. (Cairns Craig)

Wikipedia description:

Robert Cairns Craig (16 February 1949 – 29 July 2026) was a Scottish literary scholar, specialising in Scottish and modernist literature. He was Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies and director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen from 2005 to 2023, then he was professor emeritus there. Before that, he had taught at the University of Edinburgh, serving as head of the English literature department from 1997 to 2003, and as deputy director of The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities from 1998 to 2005. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2005.

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