ur President in 2006/7 was:
Prof. Ian Campbell. M.A, PhD
Please click on the button below to read his Toast to Sir Walter.
Ian Campbell was born in Lausanne, where his father was minister of the Scots Kirk throughout the War, and educated in Swiss and Scottish schools, then Aberdeen (MA) and Edinburgh (PhD) Universities, joining the staff of Edinburgh's English Literature department in 1967. With spells as visiting professor in Canada, USA, Japan and Europe he has been there ever since, and became Professor of Scottish and Victorian Literature in 1992 and Professor Emeritus of Scottish and Victorian Literature and Professorial Fellow in 2009.
He teaches nineteenth and twentieth century literature (particularly fiction) and the Bible and Literature, both English and Scottish; he is one of the editors of the Duke-Edinburgh edition of the Carlyle Letters (now with 34 volumes complete) and has written extensively on Carlyle, on Victorian literature and on Scottish literature since Burns.
The 2007 Bulletin features articles and speeches by: Prof Ian Campbell, Lord Woolman, Professor Graham Tulloch, Lady Steel, Prof.David Purdie, Mr.Roger Mercer, Prof. Murray Pittock, Dr. Bill Bell and Martin Philip.
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