Professor Daniel Cook holds a Personal Chair in English and Scottish Literature and is an Associate Dean in the School of Humanities, Social Science and Law. His teaching and research focuses on 18th-century and Romantic literature, Gothic fiction, the history of reading, authorship and adaptation. Authors of specific interest include Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, though he has published on poets and novelists from the 17^th to the 21^st centuries. 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.

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