Alan Scott Riach (born 1 August 1957)[1] is a Scottish poet and academic.
[2] He was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, and was educated at Gravesend Grammar School for Boys, Churchill College, Cambridge (BA 1979)[3] and the University of Glasgow (PhD 1985).
[4] He is currently the Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.
[4][5] Riach was President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies from 2006 to 2010 and is a regular contributor to The National.
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