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Hugh Reid is a Lecturer at Carleton University, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Department of English. He holds degrees from Carleton, Queen’s, and the University of London, with a Ph.D. focusing on eighteenth-century literature.
His research centers on the eighteenth-century book trade, particularly book subscription lists and their insights into reading publics. He has a long-standing interest in the Wartons, serving as Advisory Editor for New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century and contributing extensively to scholarly debates about their literary and cultural influence.
Hugh Reid has published 15 significant works, including a 2010 monograph The Nature and Uses of Eighteenth Century Book Subscription Lists and chapters in edited volumes such as the 2022 The World of Elizabeth Inchbald. His articles span biographical entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), textual discoveries (1987), and critical studies on the Wartons’ relationships with publishers and readership.
He has received multiple teaching awards, including the Contract Instructor Teaching Award (2019) and Carleton University Students Association Teaching Excellence Award (1994–1995). He supervised the 1998–1999 M.A. thesis on Henry MacKenzie’s The Man of Feeling and guided research essays on topics like Elizabeth Carter’s poetry (1997–1998).
