Professor Daniel Cook’s research interests include 18th- and 19th-century Scottish and English literature, Gothic literature, the history of reading, book history (production, transmission and reception), form and genre (fiction, poetry, and drama), and authorship and adaptation in theory and practice. Authors of specific interest include Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Walter Scott.

Before joining Dundee, Daniel was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a Donald and Mary Hyde Fellow at Harvard. He held a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship at the University of Bristol and, before that, an AHRC Research Fellowship on the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift. Daniel completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. Since then, he has received visiting library fellowships from Yale and Oxford.

Daniel currently serves on the editorial boards of Authorship, The Scriblerian, and The Literary Encyclopedia, and on the executive committees of the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature, The Thomas Chatterton Society, and the British Association for Romantic Studies. He is the Associate Director of Dundee’s Centre for Scottish Culture and head of the Dundee Gothic Group. He has delivered public talks throughout Europe and North America, and regularly contributes to BBC Radio, The Conversation, and other media outlets.

• English and Scottish literature before 1900;
• Authorship, reception, adaptation and appropriation;
• Autobiography, biography, and literary afterlives.