Enjoy the First Seven Minutes of this Second Episode of THE WIDE MASONIC WORLD - Join hosts Robert Cooper and Mark Tabbert for a captivating discussion historical and biographical context of Robert Burn's membership in Freemasonry

Join MAGI to enjoy the discussion with Professor Gerard Carruthers, Ph.D. Francis Hutchenson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Carruthers was a lecturer in the Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde (1995-2000), and Research Fellow at the Centre for Walter Scott Studies, University of Aberdeen (1993-5). He graduated from the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and of St Andrew's College of Education, Glasgow. His y PhD thesis was on 'The Invention of Scottish Literature During the Long Eighteenth Century'.

During the summer of 2002, he was W. Ormiston Roy Memorial Visiting Research Fellow at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA. During 2011 he was Visiting Professor in English Studies at the University of Wyoming and in 2012 a Visiting Honorary Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford and Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Since 2018 he has been Visiting Professor in English Studies at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Hon Fellow of the English Association, Hon Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literature and also the first Honorary Fellow appointed by the World Burns federation.

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His publications include:

Carruthers, G. (2009) Scottish Literature. Series: Edinburgh critical guides to literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748633081

Carruthers, G. (2005) Robert Burns. Northcote House: Tavistock. ISBN 9780746311721

Carruthers, G. (2004) Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae and The Ebb-Tide. Series: Scotnotes (18). Association for Scottish Literary Studies. ISBN 0948877561