Graham Douglas Caie

Graham Douglas Caie  is an emeritus Scottish scholar, who is vice president of ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities. In 2015, Graham Caie was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to Education and Research in Britain and Europe.

 Education and career 
Graham Caie was born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland and attended the Aberdeen Grammar School. He completed his MA (hons) in English at the  Aberdeen University in 1968, then obtained the degrees of MA (research) and PhD at McMaster University, Canada. 

In 1972, Graham was appointed lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, where he co-founded the Centre for Medieval Studies at Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen. In 1990, he was appointed to the Chair of English Language at Glasgow University. In 2004, he was elected as a Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.He was Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal at the University of Glasgow from 2008-12 and retired from the University of Glasgow in 2012. In 2014, he became a member of the British Council’s Advisory Committee for Scotland. He has been a member of Court of Queen Margaret University and is at present an Independent Governor of the Glasgow School of Art.

 Fellowships and honors 
 Founding Fellow of the English Association, University of Leicester
 Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
 Professorial Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
 Commander of the British Empire (CBE), 2015.
 Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), 2004

 Publications 

 The Judgment Day Theme in Old English Poetry, 1976
 The Merchant's Tale: Notes, 1982
 Beowulf (York Notes), 1984
 Geoffrey Chaucer's Merchant's Tale, 1991
 The Flouer O Makarheid, 2003
 Medieval Texts in Context, 2008
 Transitional states : change, tradition, and memory in medieval literature and culture, 2018

 References 

 Other websites 
 The Royal Society of Edinburgh

Category:1945 births
Category:Living people
Category:Academics of the University of Glasgow
Category:People from Aberdeen