Murdo Macdonald is emeritus professor of the history of Scottish art at the University of Dundee. He was appointed an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture in 2009, and an honorary fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies in 2016.
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