Prof Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE
Honorary Professor
Biography
Professor Sally Mapstone FRSE is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, the second woman in succession to hold this role there. She is a board member of Universities UK, a trustee of UCAS and of the Europaeum, and a member of the advisory board of the Higher Education Policy Institute. She leads on widening access work for Universities Scotland. She is chair of the international advisory board for the University of Helsinki. In 2017 she received the Foreign Policy Association of America medal for services to higher education. In 2019 she was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. As an academic Sally is a medievalist, with expertise in the area of medieval and Renaissance Scottish literature. She is President of the Saltire Society, which champions Scottish culture.
Teaching
Older Scots (to 1707); Middle and Renaissance English; Old English.
External examining
Final Honours External for the University of Edinburgh 2007 to 2009.
External doctoral examining has included for Aberdeen; Cambridge; Edinburgh; Glasgow.
Doctoral supervision and current graduate teaching
Over the past 20 years I have supervised 25 doctoral or M.Phil. theses. All my doctoral students have been successfully examined on the first occasion.
Research areas
My research is primarily on Older Scots literature, of the 14th to 17th centuries (this includes literature in Latin) and on book history. I have also published on Chaucer and on Malory; and on Shakespeare. A number of my publications concern the identification of previously unrecognised textual witnesses to Older Scots texts.
Selected publications
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The Transmission of Older Scots Literature
Mapstone, S., 17 Dec 2018, The International Companion to Scottish Literature 1400-1600. Royan, N. R. (ed.). Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, p. 38-59, 283-9 (International Companions to Scottish Literature).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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A Newly Discovered Copy of a Work by John Vaus and its Manuscript Context
Mapstone, S., 2010, The Apparelling of the Truth: : Literature and Literary Culture in the Reign of James VI. McGinley, K. & Royan, N. (eds.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 30-47Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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James Melville's Revisions to A Spirituall Propine and A Morning Vision
Mapstone, S., 2013, James VI and I, Scotland and Literature: Tides of Change, 1567-1625. Parkinson, D. (ed.). PeetersResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Editing Older Scots Texts
Mapstone, S., 2014, Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century. Brepols PublishersResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Drunkenness and Ambition in Early Seventeenth-Century Scottish Literature
Mapstone, S., 2008, In: Studies in Scottish Literature. 35, 6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Malory and the Scots
Mapstone, S., 2011, In: Arthurian Literature. 28, p. 107-120 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review