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Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman

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Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman

Postdoctoral Researcher

 https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1197-7900
20202026

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Biography

Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of English and Digital Humanities. Her research is on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, with particular emphasis on Scottish Romanticism, the novel, theories of improvement, book history, the history of reading, digital humanities, and canon-making. She is currently preparing her first monograph, Scottish Women’s Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century: Improving Novels, for publication. 
 
Cleo’s research has been published in The Burney Journal, the Journal of Scottish Philosophy, and Library and Information History. She writes regularly for public-facing publications, including The Conversation, and has been interviewed on a range of podcasts, including Infinite Women, as well as by radio programmes internationally. 
 
Cleo was awarded her AHRC-funded PhD in 2025, which she completed at the University of Stirling with co-supervision from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. As a PhD researcher, Cleo was a member of the AHRC-funded Books and Borrowing 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers project team. In 2023, she was a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
 
Prior to joining UCC, Cleo was Research Associate in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies, where she co-led ‘The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’ project, uniting digital mapping with the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural - 'Living' - Heritage, as defined by UNESCO. 
 
Between 2022 and 2026, Cleo served as Postgraduate and subsequently Early Career Officer for the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), wherein she co-organised three consecutive international BARS conferences. She is currently Membership Secretary for the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures and also sits on the editorial board of Romance, Revolution & Reform.

UCC Futures (primary)

  • Future Humanities Institute

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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