Professor Daniel Cook
Chair of English and Scottish Literature
Associate Dean (Education and Student Experience)
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Biography
Professor Daniel Cook holds a Personal Chair in English and Scottish Literature and is the Associate Dean of Education and Student Experience in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law. He is a Fellow of the English Association, the Royal Historical Society, and the Higher Education Academy. Daniel has also appeared in, and been a consultant for, documentaries for the BBC and other international outlets.
Before joining Dundee, Daniel was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Donald and Mary Hyde Fellow at Harvard, a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, and an AHRC Research Fellow on the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift. Before that, he completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Daniel’s teaching and research interests include 18th- and 19th-century literature, Scottish literature, the Gothic, visual culture, authorship and adaptation, creative practice and cultural tourism. Authors of specific interest include Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, but he has published on literature from the 17th to the 21st centuries.
Research
Professor Cook is the author of Frankenstein Retold (Bloomsbury), Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury), Walter Scott and Short Fiction (Edinburgh University Press), Reading Swift's Poetry (Cambridge University Press), and Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830 (Palgrave Macmillan). With Nick Groom and Maisha Wester he edits the Bloomsbury book series Gothic Legacies.
Daniel has also edited or co-edited multiple books, including Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830 (Oxford World’s Classics), The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels (Cambridge University Press), Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library), Austen After 200 (Palgrave Macmillan), and The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press).
In addition to numerous book chapters in volumes published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Edinburgh University Press, and other major presses, his articles on a range of subjects have appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Restoration, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Romanticism, Gothic Studies, Essays in Criticism, Philological Quarterly, and Review of English Studies.
Daniel’s research on Frankenstein, and particularly Mary Shelley’s connections with Dundee, has informed many collaborative outputs and public engagement activities, including books, study guides, documentaries, film and stage adaptations, touring musicals, comics, international festivals, and an open access “Dundee Edition”.
Teaching
- Introduction to Literary Study (EN11001 Level 1)
- Approaches to Reading (EN12014 Level 1)
- Literature in Context (EN21004 Level 2)
- Literature and Society (EN22002 Level 2)
- Reading Fiction before 1900 (EN32022 Level 3)
- The Gothic Tradition (EN42029 Level 4)
Daniel won the Creative Teaching: Recognising Innovative Practice Award at the College Teaching and Good Practice Awards, University of Dundee. He has supervised more than a dozen PhD projects on topics ranging from bibliotherapy and children’s literature to contemporary horror fiction.
Media availability
I am available for media commentary on my research.
Professor Cook is an award-winning scholar of 18th- and 19th-century Scottish, Irish and English literature, Gothic literature, the history of reading, book history, literary form and genre (fiction, poetry, and drama), authorship and adaptation. Authors of specific interest include Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley.
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Areas of expertise
- Literature
- Scotland
Awards
| Award | Year |
|---|---|
| Engaged Researcher of the Year | 2018 |
| Commendation for Engagement Project of the Year | 2017 |
Stories
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Dundee’s literary past will provide a financial boost to the city’s present as it prepares to host a major event.
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Everyone has a story to tell, even if they don’t know it yet, and a University of Dundee festival celebrating all things bookish will help members of the public find their own literary voices next week
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Thursday 3 March marks World Book Day, an annual celebration of literature aimed at promoting the joy of reading to younger generations.