Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman

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Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where she is currently preparing for publication a monograph on Scottish Romantic women writers and the novel.

Between 2025 and 2026, she was Research Associate at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies, where she co-led 'The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention' project, which analysed the multicultural diversification of the Burns Supper as Living Heritage.

She was awarded her AHRC-funded PhD in English Studies in 2025 from the University of Stirling, with co-supervision from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Her research is on 18th- and 19th-century literature, with particular interests in the novel, the history of reading, Scottish Romanticism, book history, digital humanities, and canon-making.

Experience

  • –present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, University College Cork
  • 2025–2026
    Research associate, University of Glasgow

Education

  • 2025 
    University of Stirling, PhD in English Studies
  • 2019 
    University of Edinburgh, MSc Literature and Society
  • 2018 
    University of Edinburgh, MA (Hons) French and English Literature

Publications

  • 2026
    ‘Turning the Page on Cliché: Uncovering Female Borrowing Patterns in the Books and Borrowing Database', Feminist Librarianship: Principles, Practices and Provocations
  • 2025
    'Susan Ferrier: A Philosophical Reappraisal', Journal of Scottish Philosophy
  • 2024
    'Books and Borrowing: Libraries, Books, and Book Circulation', Library and Information History
  • 2024
    'Review of Rachel Mann and Patrick Scott (eds), "Helen Craik, Poems by a Lady"', Burns Chronicle
  • 2020
    'Intellects in Isolation: A Reading of Retirement in Evelina and The Female Quixote', The Burney Journal
  • 2020
    'Selfhood in a Time of Crisis', The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation

Grants and Contracts

  • 2021
    AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership
    Role:
    PhD Researcher
    Funding Source:
    Arts and Humanities Research Council

Professional Memberships

  • British Association for Romantic Studies
  • Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
  • International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures

Honours

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

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