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Joanna Baillie Working Group

Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and playwright whose dramatic works in particular were celebrated by contemporaries such as Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron. She lived in Scotland and England, including some time in Colchester, before she died at Hampstead in 1851.

Building on a rehearsed reading of The Tryal in autumn 2024 and subsequent panel at the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in January of 2025, members of the Joanna Baillie Working Group will meet again (virtually) in the summer of 2025.

Discussion will focus on further possible collaborations, including but not limited to:

  • producing new editions of Baillie’s work;
  • collaborative publications based on Baillie’s work and/or Romantic theatre more broadly;
  • future conference panels; and
  • future readings and/or performances of Baillie’s work.

Group members

Dr Christopher Bundock

Dr Christopher Bundock

Group member

Senior Lecturer, University of Essex

Sarah Burdett

Group member

Lecturer, University of Cambridge

Helen Dallas

Group member

Postgraduate Research Student, University of Oxford

Bethan Elliot

Group member

Postgraduate Research Student, University of York

Manley Gavich

Group member

University of Essex

Renee Harris

Group member

Associate Professor, Lewis and Clark State University

Laura Kremmel

Group member

Assistant Professor, Niagra University

Alexandra LeGrand

Group member

Postgraduate Research Student, Texas A&M Department of English

Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman

Group member

Postgraduate Research Student, Universities of Stirling, Glasgow, and Edinburgh

Lesley Peterson

Group member

Professor Emerita, University of North Alabama

Diane Piccitto

Group member

Associate Professor, Mount St Vincent University

Lisa Ann Robertson

Group member

Associate Professor, University of South Dakota

Francesca Saggini

Group member

Professor, Università degli Studi della Tuscia

Judith B. Slagle

Group member

Professor Emertia, East Tennessee State University

Evy Varsamopoulou

Group member

Associate Professor, University of Cyprus

Amy Wilcockson

Group member

Research Assistant, University of Glasgow

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