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Friday, 20 June 2025

Update: Call for Papers: Next Issues of Studies in Hogg and his World

 Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

The next issue of Studies in Hogg and his World is on the subject of “Unsettling Scottish Literature,” with the intentional play on the idea of “unsettling.” This issue is affiliated with the upcoming research workshop Unsettling Scottish Studies, to be held at Simon Fraser University in November 2024, the first international multi-disciplinary workshop dedicated to decolonizing Scottish Studies. However, the issue will include articles, pedagogical papers, and notes that address all sorts of ways that Scottish literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries does, or should, unsettle. Studies in Hogg and his World is a peer-reviewed print journal. Therefore, all articles, pedagogical papers, and notes submitted will undergo the double-blind peer review process. Submissions should be made on or before September 1, 2025, to Dr. Holly Faith Nelson at Holly.Nelson@twu.ca.     

About Studies in Hogg and his World     

Studies in Hogg and his World was established in 1990. Its founding editor was Dr Gillian Hughes, the eminent James Hogg scholar, author of James Hogg: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2007), and editor, co-editor, or associate editor of a great many volumes of Hogg's works for the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Dr Hughes edited twenty-one issues of Studies in Hogg in his World before handing over the editorship in 2010 to Dr Hans de Groot (1939-2019), Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto, the editor of the Stirling / South Carolina edition of James Hogg's Highland Journeys, and author of scholarly articles and book chapters on Hogg's works. With the passing of Dr de Groot in 2019, the editorship was taken up by Dr Holly Faith Nelson, Professor of English at Trinity Western University, co-editor, with Dr. Sharon Alkerof James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author (Ashgate, 2009; Routledge, 2018), and co-author, with Dr Alker, of a series of articles and book chapters on the life and works of James Hogg published over the past two decades.

Saturday, 18 January 2025

James Hogg’s Gravestone Restored at Last

If you read this blog regularly, you’ll have seen earlier posts (5/7/20; 1/3/21; 1/5/21) reporting that James Hogg’s gravestone in Ettrick Kirkyard had been laid flat on health and safety grounds.

The good news is that the stone is now upright once again after close to five years. The photo below, which was taken by Hogg’s great-great-great-granddaughter Perrine Gilkison, shows the stone back in its proper position.


 




The thanks of all admirers of Hogg and his works go to Thomas Brown & Sons, the Melrose firm of Funeral Directors that generously carried out the restoration free of charge. Thanks must also go to John Nichol, Vicky Davidson and Daphne Jackson and their associates who have been actively promoting the restoration project over the years.

It is planned that money that was earlier contributed to restoring the gravestone will be used to fund a plaque in the churchyard that will transcribe the weathered inscription on it.