Miss Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman

Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman is a SGSAH AHRC-funded PhD researcher, supervised by Professor Katie Halsey (University of Stirling), Dr Gerard McKeever (University of Edinburgh), and Professor Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow). Her thesis analyses the relationships between novel reading and ideas of 'improvement' in Scotland between the years 1800 and 1837, with specific reference to the novels of Scottish authors Mary Brunton, Susan Ferrier, John Galt, Elizabeth Hamilton, James Hogg, and Walter Scott. Cleo has published in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation and The Burney Journal. She is also Newsletter Editor for the Romance, Revolution and Reform journal and Postgraduate Representative for the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS).