Colin Nicholson is a Professor of Eighteenth-century and Modern Literature at Edinburgh University, where his teaching includes a seminar in Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry. During the 1990s he edited The British Journal of Canadian Studies and has edited collections of essays on Margaret Laurence and on Margaret Atwood. He has published widely in Scottish, English and Canadian Literature and is the author of Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), and of Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity (Manchester: Manchester University, 2002).