Kristin Lindfield-Ott
Education and Experience
Kristin has been awarded her PhD in the summer of 2011. Her thesis focused on James Macpherson (1736–1796) and has chapters on Macpherson's early biography, originality in the 1750s, Scottish identity in the 1750s, and history writing in eighteenth-century Scotland. She also also edited Macpherson's The Highlander (1758) as part of her thesis.
Kristin has published ‘Sublime Landscapes and Ancient Traditions: Picturesque Literary Tourism in Scotland’, Romantic Localities: Europe Writes Place, ed. Christoph Bode, Jacqueline Labbe (London: Pickering & Chatto, May 2010), 39–50 (as Kristin Ott), and a review of Margaret Russett, Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), in Romanticism 13:3 (2007), 301-02 (as Kristin Ott).
Since 2008 Kristin has taught on EN1004 (Explorers and Revolutionaries: Literature 1680-1830) and EN2003 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts, and Tutor for EN1901 (Reading English) and EN2901 (Comedy in English Literature).
