Lorna Hutson
Lorna Margaret Hutson, FBA (born 27 November 1958)[2] is the ninth Merton Professor of English Literature and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Together with Professor John Hudson, she is a director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Law and Literature at the University of St Andrews.
Lorna Hutson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 November 1958 |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Title | Merton Professor of English Literature |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2004)[1] British Academy Fellowship (2016) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Queen Mary College, London University of Hull University of California, Berkeley University of St Andrews |
Life and career
Hutson was born in Berlin, in what was then West Germany, on 27 November 1958, to John Whiteford Hutson, a British career diplomat, and his wife, Doris Kemp.[2][3] She attended St Hilary's School, Edinburgh and Tormead School, Guildford. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford graduating with an MA (Hons) with first class honours, and received a DPhil in 1983.[2]
Soon afterwards, Hutson became a junior research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. From 1986 to 1998, she was a lecturer, then reader in English literature, at Queen Mary College, London. For the following two years she was professor of English literature at the University of Hull, and then spent four years as a professor in the English department of the University of California, Berkeley. In 2004, she returned to the UK to take up the position of Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews.[2] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship the same year. Her book The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama won the Roland Bainton Prize for Literature in 2008.[4] In 2012 Hutson was Dr Alice Griffin Fellow in Shakespearean Studies at the University of Auckland;[5] she also gave the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, on the subject of "Circumstantial Shakespeare";[6] the lectures were published by Oxford University Press under the same title in 2015.[7]
In 2016 she was elected as a fellow of the British Academy,[8][9] in May gave the British Academy's Shakespeare Lecture,[10] and in September took up the post of Merton Professor of English Literature, becoming a fellow of Merton College, Oxford.[11]
Hutson is an honorary fellow of Somerville College.[12]
Publications
- Thomas Nashe in Context (1989) ISBN 9780198128762[13]
- The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in Sixteenth-Century England (1994) ISBN 0203215605[14]
- Feminism and Renaissance Studies (editor, 1999) ISBN 9780198782438
- Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe (co-editor, 2001) ISBN 0300084854
- The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (2007) ISBN 9780199691487
- Circumstantial Shakespeare (2015) ISBN 9780198782438[15]
References
- ^ "Lorna Hutson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- ^ a b c d "HUTSON, Prof. Lorna Margaret". Who's Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc; online edn, Oxford University Press. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ "Hutson, John Whiteford, (born 21 Oct. 1927), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Consul-General, Casablanca, 1984–87", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u21349, retrieved 9 November 2019
- ^ . The Sixteenth Century Society & Conference. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Annual Shakespeare Fellow". The University of Auckland. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ . University of Oxford Faculty of English. Archived from the original on 26 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Circumstantial Shakespeare – Lorna Hutson". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Professor Lorna Hutson". British Academy. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ Peebles, Cheryl (15 July 2016). "St Andrews professors elected to British Academy". The Courier. DC Thomson Co Ltd. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ "Shakespeare Lectures". The British Academy. text audio
- ^ "Lorna Hutson appointed as Merton Professor of English Literature". Merton College, Oxford. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Emeritus and Honorary Fellows". Somerville College, Oxford. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ Crewe, Jonathan (1990). "Review of Thomas Nashe in Context by Lorna Hutson". Modern Philology. 88 (1): 74–75. doi:10.1086/391825. ISSN 0026-8232.
- ^ Levin, Carole (Winter 1995). "Review of The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in Sixteenth-Century England by Lorna Hudson" (PDF). The Sixteenth Century Journal. 26 (4): 1005–1006.
- ^ Weaver, William P. (2016). "Review of Circumstantial Shakespeare by Lorna Hutson". The Review of English Studies. 67 (281): 796–798. doi:10.1093/res/hgw038. ISSN 0034-6551.
External links
- Profile page on the Merton College website