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CAIE, Graham Douglas

Graham Douglas Caie has been Professor of English Language at the [[Media:University of Glasgow]] since 1990 and is currently Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal at the University of Glasgow. He was previously at the [[Media:University of Copenhagen]]'s Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies.

He was born in Aberdeen in 1945 and educated at [[Media:Aberdeen Grammar School]] 1949 - 1963 before going to the [[Media:Republique de Guinée]] on [[Media:Voluntary Service Overseas.]] He attended the [[Media:University of Aberdeen]] and graduated MA (hons) English in 1968. He then studied at [[Media:McMaster University]] where he gained the MA (research) and PhD degrees. He taught at the University of Copenhagen from 1972-1990, with research leave periods spent at Clare Hall Cambridge and Guelph University.

He is married to Ann Pringle Caie and has two children, Eleanor (b. 1977) and Peter (b.1979).

His research interests include historical English language and literature; Old and Middle English language and literature; codicology; palaeography; Scots language, medieval drama.

He was a member of the UK Research Assessment panels (English) in 2001 and 2008; on the Arts and Humanities Research Council English Panel, the AHRC Peer Review College, chair of the Swedish Research Council Linnaeus Awards (Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (2007-8). He is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland, Vice-President of the Scottish Texts Society, on the board of Scottish Dictionaries Association, the SQA English panel.