Howard Gaskill

Howard Gaskill is an Honorary Fellow in German at the University of Edinburgh, where he taught for 32 years, retiring as Reader in 2001. His main research interests have focused on German literature of the Goethe period (in particular Hölderlin); Scottish-German literary relations (in particular Ossianism); 'Ossian'-Macpherson and his European impact; literary translation.

Howard Gaskill is an Honorary Fellow in German at the University of Edinburgh, where he taught for 32 years, retiring as Reader in 2001. His main research interests have focused on German literature of the Goethe period (in particular Hölderlin); Scottish-German literary relations (in particular Ossianism); 'Ossian'-Macpherson and his European impact; literary translation. See less