Dr Jennifer Orr is a graduate of the University of Oxford where she
read English Language and Literature. She completed her doctoral
thesis at the University of Glasgow which revises the life and
works of the Irish poet Samuel Thomson (1766-1816) and his early
romantic period circle of fellow poets and intellectuals. At the
University of Glasgow she taught the Level 2 Scottish Literature
course covering medieval and early modern literature. Her recent
publications include studies of United Irish poetry, the
contemporary and critical reception of Robert Burns, Ulster
literature and culture, romantic poetic circles and their
historical context in Britain and Ireland during the 'long'
eighteenth century. She is the editor of the forthcoming Four
Courts publication 'Fostering an Irish Writer's Circle: the
correspondence of Samuel Thomson (1766-1816)' which is the first
collected edition of the letters of Thomson and his circle.