Hogg’s Worlds Now
The James Hogg Society is delighted to announce that we will be holding a conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. We warmly invite paper proposals that engage with any aspect of Hogg’s life and writing and with the broader community of authors associated with Scottish Romanticism. The first volume of The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg was published over thirty years ago now, and the edition is still ongoing, with several collections of Hogg’s periodical publications recently released. Considering the progress of this edition and other major editorial projects in Scottish Romantic studies (i.e., Galt, Lockhart, Scottish Women Writers), as well as new theoretical developments, this conference invites you to consider new ways of reading Hogg and his world.
We particularly welcome proposals from graduate students, postgraduate students, and early career scholars.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
● Editing the works of the Scottish Romantics
● The Blackwood’s Circle (including John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, David Macbeth Moir, Walter Scott, John Galt, John Wilson)
● James Hogg and periodical culture
● Scottish women writers of the Romantic period and their relationship to Hogg and his world
● Hogg and transatlantic Scottish Romanticism
● New archival, bibliographical, and editorial approaches to Hogg
● Hogg’s afterlives, including adaptations and fan culture
● Reading Hogg and the Scottish Romantics through a Green or Blue Humanities lens
● James Hogg and Animal Studies
● Dis/ability in the works of Hogg and his contemporaries
● Theorizing Hogg’s treatment of Jacobitism in light of Leith Davis and Kevin James’s new edited collection, Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)
● Hogg, colonization, empire, and/or Indigeneity
● Race and ethnicity in the works of the Scottish Romantics
● Hope in the unsettled age of the Scottish Romantics
● Scottish Romanticism and literary play/playfulness
Given Hogg’s tendency to challenge traditional forms, this conference will disrupt elements of the traditional conference, including different forms of presentations that allow for more time to discuss the ideas our attendees bring to the table. We welcome proposals for twenty-minute conference papers and for panels with a variety of formats, including roundtables.
Please submit a 250-word abstract by 31 December 2026 to Sharon Alker at alkersr@whitman.edu. Please address any questions to Sharon Alker.
