Cairns Craig
Cairns Craig | |
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| Born | Robert Cairns Craig 16 February 1949 |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot and the Associationist Aesthetic (1978) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literature |
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Robert Cairns Craig OBE FRSE FBA (born 16 February 1949) is a Scottish literary scholar, specialising in Scottish and modernist literature. He has been Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen since 2005. Before that, he taught at the University of Edinburgh, serving as head of the English literature department from 1997 to 2003. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2005.