| Post: | Professor of English |
| Location: | Arts B B350 |
| Email: | A.Hadfield@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 7627 |
| UK: | (01273) 877627 |
| International: | +44 1273 877627 |
Biography
I am currently head of Dept. (2005-8). I came to Sussex in 2003, having taught previously at The University of Leeds, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Columbia University, as a visiting professor (2002-3).
I teach undergraduate courses on the Arthurian legends, Medieval and Renassance literature and literary theory. I teach two M. A. courses, 'The Renaissance Author: Edmund Spenser' and 'Public Shakespeare', as part of the masters in Early Modern Literature and Culture. I am supervising four D. Phil. students, who work on Christopher Marlowe; Jacobean court culture; and Spenser and Popular Culture. I am especially keen to work with literature students who are interested in early modern politics, Britain and Britishness, Ireland, and issues of national identity, or on the work of Shakespeare or Spenser.
I am currently editing the Norton Critical Edition of Edmund Spenser's poetry (with Anne Lake Prescott); and am planning a biography of Spenser.
Role
Head of English, 2005-08
Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies (with Brian Cummings), 2003-
Research
Literature and Politics in the English Renaissance, especially Republicanism; Spenser and sixteenth-century poetry; Shakespeare; Early Modern Ireland; Travel Writing; National Identity; Colonialism; Britain and Britishness
Selected publications
2006
The History of the Irish Book Vol III The Irish Book in English 1550 - 1800 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 477 pp. ISBN 0-199-24705-6
2005
Shakespeare and Republicanism Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 363 pp. ISBN 0-521-81607-6
2004
Michael Drayton’s Brilliant Career in Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 125 pp. 119-147
Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics London: Thomson Learning : Arden Critical Companions, 315 pp. ISBN 1-90343-617-6
Shakespeare, Spenser and The Matter of Britain Basingstoke: Palgrave: Early Modern Literature in History series., 220 pp. ISBN 0-333-99313-6