Andrew Hadfield

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).

I am Vice-Chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies (2013-6).

I have recently published an edited volume, The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500-1640; and the Norton Spenser, with Anne Lake Prescott (Barnard College, Columbia University. My next major book will be on literature and lying in early modern England and I am planning to edit the Works of Thomas Nashe with Joseph Black and Jennifer Richards.

I am currently supervising three D. Phil. students, who work on John Donne and toleration; the theatre in early modern London; and animals in Shakespeare.

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.