Roslyn Potter
Published: 22 January 2025
Roslyn's PhD focusses on early modern Scottish women's household manuscripts, concentrating on cultural perceptions of sex through song and poetry.
Roslyn Potter is a SGSAH funded PhD researcher and tutor at the University of Glasgow. Her thesis investigates early modern women’s manuscript culture, with a particular interest in song and sexual health in seventeenth-century Scotland. Roslyn has worked on early Scottish women writers such as Lilias Skene and Elizabeth Melville, while her passion for Scotland’s early music led to a Carnegie Vacation Scholarship project ‘Early Scottish Lyrics’. As a research assistant, Roslyn contributed to the ‘The Wayfarers’ project exploring how music can aid the teaching of controversial histories.