Michael Linkletter
Michael Linkletter is an associate professor and holder of the Sister Saint Veronica Chair in Gaelic Studies. He is the Chair of the Department and Graduate Studies Coordinator for the MA program. Michael holds a Master's and PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University with a doctoral dissertation entitled “Bu Dual Dha Sin (That Was His Birthright): Gaelic Scholar Alexander Maclean Sinclair (1840-1924).” As an undergraduate Michael attended St Francis Xavier University where he received degrees in Celtic Studies and History. He has been teaching at StFX since 2001.
His research interests vary but he primarily focuses on the history, culture, language and literature of the Scottish Gaels in Canada. In 2023-24 he is teaching CELT 111 (Irish Language & Culture I), CELT 131/132 (Celtic Civilizations I & II), and CELT/ANTH/ART 321 (Celtic Art).
'S e co-ollamh a th' ann am Mìcheal Linkletter agus tha e 'na ghlèidheadair Cathair na Peathar Naomh Veronica ann an Gàidhlig. ’Se ceannard na roinne agus co-òrdanaiche iar-cheumnaichte sa phrògram MA a th’ ann am Mìcheal.Tha MA agus PhD aige bho Oilthigh Harvard ann an cànainean agus litreachasan Ceilteach le tràchdas a sgrìobh e “Bu Dual Dha Sin” air sgoilear na Gàidhlig Alasdair MacIlleathain Sinclair (1840-1924). Chaidh Mìcheal gu Oilthigh Naoimh Fransaidh Xavier airson BA ann an Ceiltis agus BA eile ann an Eachdraidh. Thòisich e aig NFX ann an 2001.
Tha ùidh rannsachaidh aige ann an iomadh rud, gu h-àiridh ann an eachdraidh, cultar, cànan is litreachas nan Gàidheal ann an Canada. Ann an 2023-24, bidh e a' teagasg CELT 111 (Cànan is Cultar na h-Èirinn I), CELT 131/132 (Sìobhaltas Ceilteach I & II), agus CELT/ANTH/ART 321 (Ealain Cheilteach).
Linkletter, Michael. Forthcoming. Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers, s.v. “Blair, Duncan Black (Rev.), Donnchadh B. Blàr, Strachur/Canada, 1815–93,” s.v. “MacDonald, Alexander, Alasdair an Ridge, Antigonish (Nova Scotia), 1823–1904,” s.v. “MacLeod, Jane, Sìne Mhór, Prince Edward Island,” s.v. “Nicholson, Patrick Joseph (Rt Rev.), Cape Breton, 1887–1965,” and s.v. “Sinclair, Alexander Maclean (Rev.), Glenbard (Nova Scotia), 1840–1923,” Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Linkletter, Michael. 2020. “Two Satires, Three Men and a Gaelic Newspaper: A Nineteenth-Century Tale,” in Natasha Sumner & Aidan Doyle (eds), North American Gaels: Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 315-38.
Linkletter, Michael. 2020. “The Rev. D. B. Blair of Cowal and Nova Scotia (1815-1893),” in Sheila M. Kidd, Thomas Owen Clancy and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (eds), Cànan, Litreachas, Eachdraidh: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 7, Glasgow: Dept of Celtic, University of Glasgow, 165-77.
Stanley-Blackwell, Laurie and Michael Linkletter. 2020. “Looking for Thistles in Stone Gardens: The Cemeteries of Nova Scotia’s Scottish Immigrants,” in Nicholas Evans and Angela McCarthy (eds), Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 81-107.
Stanley-Blackwell, Laurie and Michael Linkletter. 2018. “Inscribing Ethnicity: A Preliminary Analysis of Gaelic Headstone Inscriptions in Eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton," in a special issue on “Cemeteries and Churchyards,” Genealogy 2, no. 3: 29. Open access: https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy2030029
