Kirsteen McCue is Professor of Scottish Literature and Song Culture and was Co -Director of the award-winning Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow (2011-22). She is now leading a new research initiative called ‘Spheres of Singing’, establishing a range of new singing-related projects with colleagues across multiple disciplines at the University. She has published widely on Romantic song culture, including essays on Lord Byron and John Clare, and on Robert Burns’s songs and musical responses to Burns’s work. She is editor of two editions of songs by James Hogg for Edinburgh University Press (2014) and her edition of Robert Burns’s Songs for George Thomson, vol 4. of the Oxford Works of Robert Burns, appeared in 2021. She is currently working on British National Song culture during the period 1750–1850, after having led the Romantic National Song Network funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2017-2019. Most recently she led the relaunch of the Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation, another RSE network, between 2021-23.