Dr Meg Bateman is a senior lecturer at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in Skye, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands. She was born in Edinburgh in 1959 and learnt Gaelic in South Uist and at Aberdeen University where she also taught for many years. Her PhD explored the imagery of Classical Gaelic religious poetry in Ireland and Scotland. She is the co-editor and translator of five anthologies of Gaelic verse: -  

• An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets, with Catherine Kerrigan, Edinburgh University Press, 1991
• Gàir nan Clàrsach/The Harps’ Cry: An Anthology of 17th Century Gaelic Poetry, with Colm Ó Baoill, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 1994
• An Anthology of Scottish Religious Verse, with Robert Crawford, James McGonigal, St Andrew Press, Edinburgh, 2000
• Duanaire na Sracaire/The Song-book of the Pillagers: Anthology of  Scotland’s Gaelic Verse to 1600, with Wilson McLeod, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2007
• Bàird Ghleann Dail/The Glendale Bards, Birlinn, Edinburgh 2014 

She was also involved in the production of Early Modern Women Poets, edited by Davidson and Stevenson, 2001, and contributed a chapter on 'Women’s Writing in Scottish Gaelic since 1750' to Douglas Gifford, and Dorothy McMillan (eds.) Scottish Women's Writing, EUP 1997  

She has also published four collections of her own poetry: -

Òrain Ghaoil/Amhráin Ghrá (1989)
Aotromachd/ Lightness (1997)
Soirbheas/ Fair Wind (2007)
Transparencies (2013) (largely in English) 

She has another research interest in the visual in Gaelic culture and its implications.

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