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Prof Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE

Honorary Professor

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2544

Email

principal@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

Professor Sally Mapstone FRSE is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of 58³Ô¹Ï, 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

• 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

• 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. 30-47

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Mapstone, S., 2013, James VI and I, Scotland and Literature: Tides of Change, 1567-1625. Parkinson, D. (ed.). Peeters

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Mapstone, S., 2014, Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century. Brepols Publishers

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Mapstone, S., 2008, In: Studies in Scottish Literature. 35, 6

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Mapstone, S., 2011, In: Arthurian Literature. 28, p. 107-120 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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