Gerard Carruthers is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is General Editor of the ongoing Oxford University Press edition of the collected works of Robert Burns, and is author or editor of 24 books and over 170 academic essays. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a board member of the Ellisland Robert Burns Trust, an Honorary Advisor to the National Trust for Scotland and serves on the Joint Advisory Committee with oversight of Walter Scott's Library at Abbotsford. He is also a Trustee of the Scottish Catholic Heritage Collections Trust.

• 1: Gerard Carruthers: Introduction. Robert Burns: Poet and Texts in Life and Afterlife


• Part I - Texts


• 2: Patrick Scott: The Imprint of His Origin: Robert Burns, John Wilson, and the Print Culture of Late Eighteenth-Century Ayrshire


• 3: Nigel Leask: 'My Heart's in the Highlands': Poetry, Politics, and Patronage in Robert Burns's Highland Tour


• 4: Murray Pittock: The Scots Musical Museum


• 5: Kirsteen McCue: 'For the honour of Caledonia': Burns's Songs for George Thomson


• 6: Jeremy J. Smith: The Pragmatics of Punctuation in the Letters of Robert Burns


• 7: John Burnett: Robert Burns and the Devil: 'Halloween'


• 8: Gerard Lee McKeever: 'I, Rob, am here': Becoming and Belonging in the Verse Epistles


• 9: Ronnie Young: The Kirk Satires and Kirk Politics


• 10: Pauline Mackay: Burns and Bawdry


• 11: Robert P. Irvine: 'Tam o' Shanter' - Storytelling and Antiquarianism


• 12: Gerard Carruthers and Kevin Thomas Gallagher: The Politics of Robert Burns from the 1780s to the 1790s


• 13: Moira Hansen: Writing to and about Women


• 14: Sandro Jung: Robert Burns and Book Illustration


• Part II - Cultural and Intellectual Contexts


• 15: Fiona Stafford: Burns and the Natural World


• 16: Colin Kidd: Anti-Calvinism and the Ayrshire Enlightenment


• 17: Corey E. Andrews: Robert Burns, Club Society, and Convivial Sociability


• Part III - The Burns Industry


• 18: David Hopes: Birth of a Collection: Burns Monument Trust and the formation of Scotland's first literary museum (1814-1900)


• 19: Johnny Rodger: The Architectural Monument to Robert Burns in the New Age of Identity Politics and Nationalism


• 20: Leith Davis: Sights of Memory: Robert Burns and Romantic-era Book Illustration


• 21: Murdo Macdonald: Robert Burns and the Visual Arts: Portraiture, National Landscapes, and the Context of Monuments


• 22: Caroline McCracken-Flesher: Robert Burns and the Cultural Politics of Food


• 23: Gerard Carruthers and George Smith: Bard Behaviour: Imitating, Mistaking, and Faking Burns


• 24: Brean Hammond: Afterburn(s): Scholarly and Fictional Receptions


• Part IV - Burns's British Afterlives


• 25: Alex Deans: 'At the Grave of Burns': Robert Burns and British Romanticism after 1800


• 26: Jon Mee: Why the English had to invent Robert Burns


• 27: Ronald Black: Parallel Universes: Burns and Gaelic


• 28: Kirstie Blair: 'No new note?': Burns and the Victorian Working-Class Poet


• 29: Catriona M. M. Macdonald and Christopher A. Whatley: 'We'll ne'er forget the people': Burns and Politics, 1796-1945


• Part V - International Writer


• 30: Jennifer Orr: Robert Burns and Ireland


• 31: Clark McGinn: Dear Guest and Ghost: Celebrating Robert Burns convivially and globally since 1801


• 32: Thomas Keith: Burns Among the American Abolitionists


• 33: Liam McIlvanney: The View from the Octagon: Robert Burns in New Zealand


• 34: David Goldie: Robert Burns and Twentieth-Century War


• 35: Josephine Dougal: Iconic Burns: A Shape Shifting 'Sign' of the Times


• 36: John Ritchie: Burns on Screen: A Critical History of Cinematic Representations of the Life of the Bard


• 37: Craig Lamont: Burns in The Digital Age


• 38: Matthew Wickman: Robert Burns and the Inhuman


• Part VI - Burns Biography


• 39: Rhona Brown: Burns Biography, 1786-1800


• 40: Carol Baraniuk and Gerard Carruthers: Burns Biography, 1808-1939


• 41: Carol Baraniuk: Burns Biography, 1949-2019


• 42: Kevin Thomas Gallagher: Further Resources

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns explores the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard', Robert Burns (1759-96).