Dr. Patrick Scott

Director of Special Collections
Thomas Cooper Library
Distinguished Professor of English

scottp@mailbox.sc.edu
(803) 777 - 1275

Patrick Scott is Director of Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, and Distinguished Professor of English. He earned his BA at Merton College, Oxford, his MA at Leicester University, and his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, and he has taken additional courses with SLIS and at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School.

Prior to coming to South Carolina in 1976, Dr. Scott taught at the secondary level in Nigeria and Britain, and at the college level at Leicester and Edinburgh, and as a visiting lecturer at the College of William & Mary.

Dr. Scott's primary research has been in 19th century British literature; his publications in book history include a descriptive bibliography, The Early Editions of Arthur Hugh Clough (1977), and articles in The Library, Book Collector, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Harvard Library Bulletin, Victorian Periodicals Review, The Bibliotheck, and Charleston Conference Proceedings 2003.