Dr Peter Mackay

Dr Peter Mackay

Senior Lecturer

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2657
Email
pm83@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 004
Location
Kennedy Hall

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Biography

Dr Peter Mackay is a Senior Lecturer in Literature in the School of English. Originally from the Isle of Lewis, he is an expert in Scottish and Irish literature from 1800 onwards, and especially in Scottish Gaelic literature. He has written two monographs, This Strange Loneliness: Heaney's Wordsworth (McGill-Queen's 2021) and Sorley MacLean (RIISS 2010). An anthology he edited with Iain S MacPherson, An Leabhar Liath: 500 years of Gaelic Love and TransgressiveÌýVerse (Luath 2015) won the Donald Meek Prize for Gaelic literature and the Saltire Scottish Research Book of the Year; another anthology co-edited with Jo MacDonald, 100 Dàn as Fheàrr Leinn / 100 Favourite Gaelic Poems won the Duais Ruaraidh MhicThòmais in 2021. His poetry collections Gu Leòr / Galore (Acair 2015) and Nàdur de / Some Kind of (Acair 2020) were shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year;ÌýNàdur de was also longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. An AHRC / BBC Next Generation Thinker, he is a frequent broadcaster on Radio 3 and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. In 2024 he was appointed Scottish Makar.

PhD supervision

  • LauraÌýCameron-Lewis
  • CallumÌýIrvine
  • RachaelÌýStark

Selected publications

  • Mackay, P., 15 Apr 2021, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 340 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Mackay, P., 2010, AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies. 181 p. (Aberdeen Introductions to Irish and Scottish Culture)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Mackay, P., 12 Mar 2020, Isle of Lewis: Acair Earranta. 160 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Mackay, P., 2015, Stornoway: Acair Earranta. 92 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Mackay, P. (Editor) & Macpherson, I. (Editor), 1 Dec 2016, Edinburgh: Luath Press. 349 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Mackay, P. (Editor), Brearton, F. (Editor) & Longley, E. (Editor), 2011, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 346 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Mackay, P. (Editor) & O'Gallagher, N. (Editor), 2013, Isle of Skye: Clo Ostaig. 174 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Jamie, K. (Editor), Paterson, D. (Editor) & Mackay, P. (Editor), 1 Sept 2021, Edinburgh: Canongate Books. 521 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

  • Mackay, P. & MacDonald, J., Oct 2020, Luath Press.

    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

  • Mackay, P., 2015, Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work. Falconer, R. (ed.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 84-92 9 p.

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

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