Prof Andrew Hadfield

Biography

I have taught a variety of undergraduate courses throughout my career at the Universities of Leeds, Ulster, Aberystwyth, Columbia (New York), and Sussex, concentrating on medieval and early modern literature, Irish literature, literary theory and some twentieth-century literature. I have also taught M. A. courses on Spenser; literature, travel writing and colonialism; and Shakespeare. I am visiting professor at the University of Granada (Spain).

Role

I am Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School (2010-13). In 2012-3 I will teach an MA course, 'Public Shakespeare'; a first-year course, 'Reading and Genre'; a period course, 'English Literature 1500-1625'; and a special option, 'Creative Writing in the Renaissance.'

I am currently editing The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500-1640; and the Norton Spenser, with Anne Lake Prescott (Barnard College, Columbia University), both due out later this year (2012). My next major book will be on literature and lying in early modern England on which I have an article forthcoming in Textual Practice. I will be giving the 2013 annual Shakespeare Birthday lecture at the Folger Shakespeare Library on April 8, 'Graymalkin and Other Shakespearean Celts.'

I am currently supervising four D. Phil. students, who work on Shakespeare’s life; Ram Alley; the literature of Jacobean England; and Milton and science.

I have taught a variety of undergraduate courses throughout my career at the Universities of Leeds, Ulster, Aberystwyth, Columbia (New York), and Sussex, concentrating on medieval and early modern literature, Irish literature, literary theory and some twentieth-century literature. I have also taught M. A. courses on Spenser; literature, travel writing and colonialism; and Shakespeare. I am visiting professor at the University of Granada (Spain).

Research Interests

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; and, somewhat to my surprise, life writing.

Recent publications

Edmund Spenser: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)

Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, reprinted 2007, paperback 2008), xii + 363pp.

Shakespeare, Spenser and The Matter of Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave: Early Modern Literature in History, 2003), x + 220pp.

edited, with Matthew Dimmock, Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp.xiv + 219pp.

edited, Textual Practice, special issue: Were Early Modern Lives Different? 23.2 (April 2009), pp.181-345.

edited, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (Basingstoke: Palgrave: Early Modern Literature in History, 2008), xvi + 232pp.

edited, with Abraham Stoll, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Books 6 and 7 (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007), xxii + 239pp.

Other Activities

I was editor of Renaissance Studies (2006-11), and am a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement. I edit twoThe Modern Humanities Research Association New Tudor and Stuart translations (with Neil Rhodes); and Early Modern Literature in History (Palgrave) (with Cedric Brown). I was ‘Area Editor: Renaissance and British Literature’, for David Scott Kastan, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2006). I have recently become general editor for 'British and Irish Literature' for Oxford Bibliographies.

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; and, somewhat to my surprise, life writing.

In 2013 I am teaching an MA course, 'Public Shakespeare'; a first-year course, 'Reading and Genre'; a period course, 'English Literature 1500-1625'; and a special option, 'Creative Writing in the Renaissance.'

Student Consultation

My office hours for the second semester 2013 are Mondays 11-12 and Tuesdays 2-3. Room B350.

Hadfield, Andrew (2012) Edmund Spenser: A Life. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199591022

Hadfield, Prof Andrew and Gillespie, R, eds. (2006) The History of the Irish Book Vol III The Irish Book in English 1550 - 1800. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-199-24705-6

Hadfield, Andrew (2005) Michael Drayton's brilliant career. Proceedings of the British Academy, 125. pp. 119-147. ISSN 0068-1202

Hadfield, Andrew (2005) Shakespeare and Republicanism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521816076

Hadfield, Andrew (2004) Shakespeare and Renaissance politics. Thomson Learning : Arden Critical Companions, Arden critical companions. ISBN 9781903436172

Hadfield, Andrew (2004) Shakespeare, Spenser and the matter of Britain. Early Modern Literature in History . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke & New York. ISBN 9780333993132