Dr. Patrick Scott

Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus
Former Director, Irvin Department
USC Libraries

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

Patrick Scott, who was Director of the University's Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections from 1996 through 2011, 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. Since 2003, he has taught courses for SLIS in book history and descriptive bibliography, and since 2007 in special collections librarianship. He holds a term appointment to the SLIS graduate faculty.

Dr. Scott's primary research areas have been in Victorian and Scottish literature; his most recent book is the edited collection Robert Burns & Friends (2012), and he currently coedits the journal Studies in Scottish Literature. His publications in bibliography and librarianship 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, Against the Grain, and Charleston Conference Proceedings (browse by subject at http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/).

Since 1992, he has curated over 100 rare book exhibitions and over thirty on-line exhibits or other projects; his 1998 exhibition catalogue The Great War won an ACRL/ALA Leab Award. In 2004, he received a Mungo Award for Undergraduate Teaching and in 2008 the Lucy Hampton Bostick award from Richland County Public Library.