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Dr Sally Couper
Senior Tutor
School of Humanities Media and Creative CommSally is Lead Tutor for the Distance offering of 230.111 Tū Kupu: Writing and Inquiry.
Her postgraduate research is in Scottish poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and she is currently preparing a reconstructive edition of John Rolland's Court of Venus (a1560) for the Scottish Text Society. Since 1997 she has worked as an editor on the Oxford English Dictionary.
Research Expertise
Area of Expertise
Field of research codes
British and Irish Literature (200503):
Comparative Literature Studies (200524):
Languages, Communication And Culture (200000):
Literary Studies (200500)
Research Outputs
Journal
Couper, S. (2005). Allegory and Parody in William Dunbar’s “Sen that I am a presoneir”. Scottish Studies Review. 6(2), 9-20
[Journal article]Authored by: Couper, S.
[Journal article]Authored by: Couper, S.
Book
Couper, S. (2017). Informed choice: The knowing morality of John Rolland’s court of venus. In Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587. (pp. 185 - 197).
[Chapter]Authored by: Couper, S.
[Chapter]Authored by: Couper, S.
Read Abstract: 
Milfull, I., & Couper, S. (2010). Sourcing Wright: Problems and Solutions in the Use of EDD Citations for the Purposes of OED3. In M. Markus, C. Upton, & R. Heuberger (Eds.) Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary and Beyond: Studies in Late Modern English Dialectology.. (pp. 217 - 237). Frankfurt: Peter Lang
[Chapter]Authored by: Couper, S.
[Chapter]Authored by: Couper, S.
Couper, S. (2002). Time, Sex and Authority in John Rolland’s Seuin Seages. In Forum for Modern Language Studies. (pp. 435 - 448). Oxford: Oxford University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Couper, S.
[Chapter]Authored by: Couper, S.
Thesis
Couper, S. (2002). Reason and Desire in Older Scots Poetry, c.1424-1560. (Doctoral Thesis, University of Oxford)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Couper, S.
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Couper, S.
Conference
Couper, S. (2017, February). The “strange” and “clerklie” terms of John Rolland’s Court of Venus. Presented at 11th Biennial Conference of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Wellington.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Couper, S.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Couper, S.
Other
Couper, S. (2004). ‘John Pinkerton (1758–1826), historian and poet’, ‘Robert Pollok (1798–1827), poet’, ‘Robert Nicoll (bap. 1814, d. 1837), poet’ and ‘James Hyslop (1798–1827), poet’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press
[Other]Authored by: Couper, S.
[Other]Authored by: Couper, S.