Daniel Cook
@profdanielcook.bsky.social
Associate Dean and Professor, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press, tbc) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Meanwhile, on Zoopla: one of Sir Walter Scott’s former properties is on the market…
www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...
www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Meanwhile, on Zoopla: one of Sir Walter Scott’s former properties is on the market…
www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...
www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Frankenstein: Crafting a Tale Eternal, a tie-in exhibition to celebrate the new Netflix Frankenstein, opens to the public on 17 October at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London. Love this!
October 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Frankenstein: Crafting a Tale Eternal, a tie-in exhibition to celebrate the new Netflix Frankenstein, opens to the public on 17 October at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London. Love this!
THE GULLIVER TRILOGY
#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)
#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels
#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)
#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)
#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels
#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)
September 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
THE GULLIVER TRILOGY
#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)
#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels
#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)
#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)
#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels
#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)
“We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.”
Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:
Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:
July 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
“We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.”
Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:
Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:
You’re never too old for a lovely certificate surprise, are you?
July 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
You’re never too old for a lovely certificate surprise, are you?
Having a great time at my first ever Defoe Society conference (aka DefCon) in Lichfield. Pictured: the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum.
July 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Having a great time at my first ever Defoe Society conference (aka DefCon) in Lichfield. Pictured: the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum.
I’ll be delivering the Nora Bartlett Memorial Lecture for the Scottish branch of the Jane Austen Society. Title: “Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Gothic Imagination”. Date: 18 October. Place: Pitbauchlie Hotel, Dunfermline.
April 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I’ll be delivering the Nora Bartlett Memorial Lecture for the Scottish branch of the Jane Austen Society. Title: “Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Gothic Imagination”. Date: 18 October. Place: Pitbauchlie Hotel, Dunfermline.
Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of the University of Dundee. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Legend.
March 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of the University of Dundee. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Legend.
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense” (Elizabeth Bennet)
#PrideandPrejudiceDay
#PrideandPrejudiceDay
January 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense” (Elizabeth Bennet)
#PrideandPrejudiceDay
#PrideandPrejudiceDay
“Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west,
The drift is driving sairly;
Sae loud and shrill’s I hear the blast,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.”
#BurnsNight2025
The drift is driving sairly;
Sae loud and shrill’s I hear the blast,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.”
#BurnsNight2025
January 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west,
The drift is driving sairly;
Sae loud and shrill’s I hear the blast,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.”
#BurnsNight2025
The drift is driving sairly;
Sae loud and shrill’s I hear the blast,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.”
#BurnsNight2025
My Away Message is now… on! 🔕
December 23, 2024 at 6:52 PM
My Away Message is now… on! 🔕
Casually playing a games app I’ve just downloaded (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and look who immediately pops up… I’m starting to think she’s haunting me, so, just in case… hi, Mary!
December 16, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Casually playing a games app I’ve just downloaded (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and look who immediately pops up… I’m starting to think she’s haunting me, so, just in case… hi, Mary!
The good folk at Odeon have asked me to introduce the first screening of the new Nosferatu in Dundee - timings to follow!
www.odeon.co.uk/films/nosfer...
www.odeon.co.uk/films/nosfer...
December 7, 2024 at 7:09 PM
The good folk at Odeon have asked me to introduce the first screening of the new Nosferatu in Dundee - timings to follow!
www.odeon.co.uk/films/nosfer...
www.odeon.co.uk/films/nosfer...
Delighted to say I've been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!
December 4, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Delighted to say I've been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!
November 10, 2024 at 11:44 AM
November 10, 2024 at 11:30 AM
COMING OCTOBER 2026
Edited by Daniel Cook, with a Foreword by [redacted]
Edited by Daniel Cook, with a Foreword by [redacted]
September 14, 2024 at 9:54 AM
COMING OCTOBER 2026
Edited by Daniel Cook, with a Foreword by [redacted]
Edited by Daniel Cook, with a Foreword by [redacted]
I’ll be in Glasgow next week for the biennial British Association for
Romantic Studies conference - looking forward to a big programme of papers and chats with friends old and new…
bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5270
Romantic Studies conference - looking forward to a big programme of papers and chats with friends old and new…
bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5270
July 21, 2024 at 5:03 PM
I’ll be in Glasgow next week for the biennial British Association for
Romantic Studies conference - looking forward to a big programme of papers and chats with friends old and new…
bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5270
Romantic Studies conference - looking forward to a big programme of papers and chats with friends old and new…
bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5270
Edwin Morgan’s The Loss Ness Monster’s Song #StAndrewsDay
November 30, 2023 at 9:25 AM
Edwin Morgan’s The Loss Ness Monster’s Song #StAndrewsDay
