Walter Scott at 250

Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She runs the University of Wyoming in Scotland program and directs UW's Center for Global Studies. Her books include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford, 2005), The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Novels (Oxford, 2012), the edited volumes Culture, Nation and the New Scottish Parliament (Bucknell, 2007), Scotland As Science Fiction (Bucknell, 2012), and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (MLA, 2013). Her edition of Stevenson's Kidnapped is forthcoming from EUP.Matthew Wickman is Professor of English at Brigham Young University and Founding Director of the BYU Humanities Center. He is the author of Literature after Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's Romantick Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Pennsylvania, 2007), and many articles on Scottish literary and intellectual history and in other fields across the interdisciplinary humanities.